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Tewkesbury Abbey
Church Street
Tewkesbury
Gloucestershire
GL20 5RZ
England
Programme
Johann Sebastian Bach – St Matthew Passion, BWV 244
Performers
Mark Wilde – Evangelist
Markus Matheis – Christus
Alison Langer – soprano
Diana Moore – mezzo-soprano
Jonathan Hanley – tenor
Adam Maxey – Bass
David Crown – Conductor
Cheltenham Bach Choir
Beauregard Youth Choir
The Musical and Amicable Society
Programme Note
The Cheltenham Bach Choir will be singing Bach’s monumental and stunning St Matthew Passion this Easter in the glorious setting of Tewkesbury Abbey; they will be joined by a top line-up of soloists and some of the UK’s best Baroque instrumentalists.
The St Matthew Passion is rightly recognised as a pinnacle of creativity - a dramatic and incredibly moving masterpiece. The story unfolds with a narrator, the Evangelist, taking us all on a journey, with the choir representing the many crowds that throng the story. Utterly mesmerising as spectacle and performance, an oratorio for all times, it is truly not to be missed.
