Bach St John Passion: Danesborough Chorus at St Mary's Church, Woburn on Saturday 23rd March 2024

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Bach St John Passion

Danesborough Chorus

Add to my Calendar 23-03-2024 19:30 23-03-2024 21:30 36 Bach St John Passion First performed on Good Friday in 1724 in Leipzig, Johann Sebastian Bach’s St John Passion is a powerful masterpiece of sacred music. Widely viewed as the more expressive of his two surviving Passion settings, the St John Passion shows Bach at his most operatic. The setting is an intensely human story – a drama of turmoil and betrayal, suffering and redemption, and profoundly moving.   Full of dramatic contrasts, the St John Passion perfectly balances the theatrical with the devotional, from the baying mob crying out for Jesus’s blood to the hope of redemption in the final chorale.  Perhaps the biggest surprise here is that, despite the deep sorrow of the Good Friday story, the work is at the end firmly optimistic in tone.   St Mary's Church, Woburn DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St Mary's Church
Park Street
Woburn
Bedfordshire
MK17 9PG
England

Saturday 23rd March 2024
7:30 PM

Programme

Johann Sebastian Bach – St John Passion, BWV 245

Performers

Sam Harris – Evangelist
Sam Hird – Christus
Henna Mun – soprano
Alexandria Moon – contralto
Owen Lucas – tenor
Daniel Barrett – bass-baritone
Ian Smith – Conductor

Danesborough Chorus
Alina Orchestra

Programme Note

First performed on Good Friday in 1724 in Leipzig, Johann Sebastian Bach’s St John Passion is a powerful masterpiece of sacred music. Widely viewed as the more expressive of his two surviving Passion settings, the St John Passion shows Bach at his most operatic. The setting is an intensely human story – a drama of turmoil and betrayal, suffering and redemption, and profoundly moving.

Full of dramatic contrasts, the St John Passion perfectly balances the theatrical with the devotional, from the baying mob crying out for Jesus’s blood to the hope of redemption in the final chorale. Perhaps the biggest surprise here is that, despite the deep sorrow of the Good Friday story, the work is at the end firmly optimistic in tone.

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