Friday 27 May 2022 7:30PM

Gabrieli Consort & Players; Paul McCreesh director

Bach

Information

Download the PDF programme and song sheet/translations here. Reproduction and distribution is strictly prohibited.

Change of Artist
Due to unforeseen circumstances, Dingle Yandell (bass) has withdrawn from the above concert. We are grateful to Malachy Frame (baritone) for stepping in as his replacement. The programme remains the same.

Change of Running Order
The running order of the above concert has changed and will now be as follows.

Booking information

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Duration

This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval

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Gabrieli Consort & Players
Paul McCreesh director
Mary Bevan soprano
Tim Mead countertenor
Thomas Walker tenor
Malachy Frame baritone

Marking the Christian feast of Ascension is Bach’s oratorio, probably composed for that occasion in 1735 in the wake of earlier pieces celebrating Christmas and Easter: several of its sections were recycled from earlier compositions, while another subsequently found its way into the B minor Mass. As with Bach’s Passions, the piece is led narratively by an Evangelist, in this instance tenor Thomas Walker.

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
- - Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir BWV29
    - Sinfonia
  - Mass in A BWV234
Interval
- - Sinfonia in D BWV1045
  - Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen BWV11 'Ascension Oratorio'