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2023 brings us an opportunity to celebrate one of the greatest events in musical history, J.S. Bach’s appointment as Thomaskantor in Leipzig. As a result, a new era in music history began. For the next 27 years, the requirements of his appointment combined with his deep faith and desire to encourage faith in all others, inspired Bach to produce music of such staggering beauty, complexity and profundity that changed the course of music forever. These works, particularly the cantatas, are still performed and idolised around the world today, demonstrated by the more than 300 Bach choirs and societies that exist worldwide. To celebrate this momentous event, we have chosen 3 of his most celebrated Leipzig cantatas and his jubilant motet ‘Singet dem Herrn’. How can the works of Bach ever be adequately summed up? We will leave it to our international patron Sir John Eliot Gardiner ’But it is Bach, making music in the Castle of Heaven, who gives us the voice of God – in human form. He is the one who blazes a trail, showing us how to overcome our imperfections through the perfections of his music: to make divine things human and human things divine.’

  • J.S. Bach
    Chorale Prelude 'In Dulci Jublio' BWV 729
    J.S. Bach
    Cantata 'Unser mund sei voll Lachens' BWV 110
    J.S. Bach
    Motet 'Singtet dem Herrn' BWV 225
    J.S. Bach
    Cantata 'Jesu, der du meine Seele' BWV 78
    J.S. Bach
    'Wachet auf' BWV 140

  • Madeleine Easton
    Director/Violin
    Simone Slattery
    Violin
    R. Font
    Violin
    TBC
    Violin
    James Armstrong
    Violin
    John Ma
    Viola
    Anton Baba
    Cello
    Pippa McMillan
    Double Bass
    Mikaela Oberg
    Recorder
    M. Sever
    Harpsichord
    TBC
    Organ
    Tommie Andersson
    Lute
    Adam Masters
    Oboe 1
    Kailen Cresp
    Oboe 2
    Simon Wolnizer
    Corno 1
    Michael Dixon
    Corno 2
    Susannah Lawergren
    Soprano
    Brianna Louwen
    Soprano
    Hannah Fraser
    Alto
    Michael Burden
    Alto
    Richard Butler
    Tenor
    Andrei Laptev
    Tenor
    Koen Van Stade
    Bass
    Jack Stephens
    Bass