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St Cuthbert's Parish Church
5 Lothian Road
Edinburgh
EH1 2EP
Scotland
Programme
Johann Sebastian Bach – Jesu, meine Freude (motet), BWV 227
Johann Sebastian Bach – Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich, BWV 150
Johann Sebastian Bach – Orchestral Suite no.1 in C major, BWV 1066
Johann Sebastian Bach – Ich bin vergnügt mit meinem Glücke, BWV 84
Performers
Nicholas Wilks – Music Director
Jessica Leary – Soprano
Edinburgh Bach Choir
Bach Ensemble of Edinburgh
Programme Note
Our summer concert celebrates the diversity of Bach’s output by placing two cantatas alongside a motet and the first of the orchestral suites. We are thrilled to be welcoming back the soprano Jessica Leary for Ich bin vergnügt mit meinen Glücke, a wonderfully uplifting solo cantata. Jessica also joins us for Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich, Bach’s earliest cantata and the inspiration for the finale of Brahms’s Fourth Symphony. We open our concert with what is perhaps Bach’s best-loved motet, Jesu, meine Freude, a virtuoso masterpiece encompassing every facet of Bach’s remarkable word-painting.
