Bach Comes Back to Town: Chester Bach Singers at St Werburgh's R C Church, Chester on Saturday 16th February 2019

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Bach Comes Back to Town

Chester Bach Singers

Add to my Calendar 16-02-2019 13:15 16-02-2019 15:15 36 Bach Comes Back to Town CBS performs all six of J.S.Bach’s motets over two lunchtime concerts. Including some of the composer’s most exciting and daring writing for choir, Bach’s motets are varied, vibrant and vivid in illustrating their German texts (translations provided!). Sometimes in four parts and sometimes in as many as eight, with voices divided into two answering choirs, CBS forms the perfect companion to Saturday shopping or lunching. The concerts present the motets alongside some of Bach’s most memorable organ works and choral music by composers influenced by him. In this concert, Bach’s Komm, Jesu, komm, Fürchte dich nicht and Singet dem Herrn are complemented by motets by Mendelssohn, who rescued so much of Bach’s music from obscurity in the early nineteenth century. St Werburgh's R C Church, Chester DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St Werburgh's R C Church
Grosvenor Park Road
Chester
Cheshire
CH1 1QJ
England

Saturday 16th February 2019
1:15 PM

Programme

Johann Sebastian Bach – Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen (Ascension Oratorio), BWV 11

Performers

Chester Bach Singers

Programme Note

CBS performs all six of J.S.Bach’s motets over two lunchtime concerts. Including some of the composer’s most exciting and daring writing for choir, Bach’s motets are varied, vibrant and vivid in illustrating their German texts (translations provided!). Sometimes in four parts and sometimes in as many as eight, with voices divided into two answering choirs, CBS forms the perfect companion to Saturday shopping or lunching. The concerts present the motets alongside some of Bach’s most memorable organ works and choral music by composers influenced by him. In this concert, Bach’s Komm, Jesu, komm, Fürchte dich nicht and Singet dem Herrn are complemented by motets by Mendelssohn, who rescued so much of Bach’s music from obscurity in the early nineteenth century.

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