The Bach Choir - St Matthew Passion at Royal Festival Hall, London on Sunday 6th April 2025

Please note: This concert is in the past and has already taken place.

The Bach Choir - St Matthew Passion

Add to my Calendar 06-04-2025 11:00 06-04-2025 13:00 36 The Bach Choir - St Matthew Passion The Bach Choir’s annual performance of Bach’s St Matthew Passion, sung in English, is a much-anticipated fixture in London’s musical calendar. The St Matthew Passion is a dramatic telling of the Passion of Christ, which features some of Bach’s most beautiful and poignant chorales, alongside rousing and striking choruses.  It is a work that The Bach Choir is renowned for performing annually to an exceptionally high standard. ‘the real star of this show was The Bach Choir itself, and the standard of choral singing throughout was impressively high’  Arts Desk Please note that there is a long lunch interval between parts 1 and 2 – the interval begins at 12.15pm. Part 2 begins at 2.15pm. https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/the-bach-choir-st-matthew-passion/ Royal Festival Hall, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Royal Festival Hall
Southbank Centre
Belvedere Rd
South Bank
London
SE1 8XX
England

Sunday 6th April 2025
11:00 AM

Programme

Johann Sebastian Bach – St Matthew Passion, BWV 244

Performers

Ed Lyon – tenor
Simon Shibambu – Bass
Elizabeth Watts – soprano
Helen Charlston – mezzo-soprano
Guy Cutting – tenor
Neal Davies – baritone
David Hill – Conductor

The Bach Choir
London Youth Choir
Florilegium

Programme Note

The Bach Choir’s annual performance of Bach’s St Matthew Passion, sung in English, is a much-anticipated fixture in London’s musical calendar.

The St Matthew Passion is a dramatic telling of the Passion of Christ, which features some of Bach’s most beautiful and poignant chorales, alongside rousing and striking choruses. It is a work that The Bach Choir is renowned for performing annually to an exceptionally high standard.

‘the real star of this show was The Bach Choir itself, and the standard of choral singing throughout was impressively high’ Arts Desk

Please note that there is a long lunch interval between parts 1 and 2 – the interval begins at 12.15pm. Part 2 begins at 2.15pm.

https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/the-bach-choir-st-matthew-passion/

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