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Bach Cantatas: Trinity Season

Bach Weekend with the Monteverdi Choir

,Barbican Hall
Portrait of Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Sir John Eliot Gardiner and his Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists conclude their Bach weekend in a blaze of hope.

‘Soar joyfully on high’: in Bach’s universe, joy was the natural outcome of prayer. In the third and final concert of John Eliot Gardiner’s Bach cantata weekend, four cantatas tread a path from hope to affirmation, in music of limitless beauty and depth.

Indeed, Wachet auf, is probably one of the most familiar of all Bach’s 200-plus cantatas. But these artists know that it’s just one jewel amidst near-limitless musical riches. Gardiner’s unsurpassed ability to ‘convert knowledge into a profound sense of what makes the music work’ (The Spectator) means that his Bach speaks to both heart and soul.

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Programme

JS Bach ‘Es erhub sich ein Streit’ BWV 19
Buxtehude 'Nimm von uns, Herr, du treuer Gott' BuxWV 78
JS Bach ‘Nimm von uns, Herr, du treuer Gott’ BWV 101
JS Bach ‘Jesu, der du meine Seele’ BWV 78
Schein Freue dich des Weibes deiner Jugend
JS Bach ‘Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme’ BWV 140

Performers

Monteverdi Choir
Sir John Eliot Gardiner conductor
English Baroque Soloists
Hana Blazikova soprano
Julia Doyle soprano
Emma Lewis alto
Ruari Bowen tenor
Hugo Hymas tenor
Graham Neal tenor
Alex Ashworth bass
Peter Harvey bass

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