Yorkshire Bach Choir & Yorkshire Baroque Soloists

Performance
  • Date and time: Saturday 14 December 2024, 7.30pm
  • Location: In-person only
    Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, Campus West, University of York (Map)
  • Admission: Tickets: £35; concessions £32; students/U35s £7, booking required

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Peter Seymour  conductor

Bach   Magnificat in D, BWV 243       
Bach   Cantata ‘Unser Mund sei voll Lachens’, BWV 110
Bach   Cantata ‘Gloria in excelsis Deo’, BWV 191

Bach at Christmas

With its exuberant choruses, colourful orchestration and beautiful solo writing, Bach’s Magnificat captures perfectly the divine joy of a pregnant Mary. Two Christmas cantatas, Unser Mund sei voll Lachens (first performed on Christmas Day in 1725) and Gloria in excelsis Deo, complete this spectacular programme. All of these works use Bach’s festival orchestra comprising trumpets, timpanis, flutes, oboes, strings and continuo alongside soloists and chorus. Cantata BWV 191 is adapted from three celebratory movements of the Gloria from B minor Mass, and the opening movement of Cantata BWV 110 uses the stunning Overture from Bach’s Orchestral Suite BWV 1069. Do not miss this musical feast as Yorkshire Bach Choir and Yorkshire Baroque Soloists join forces for an unmissable trio of festive works!

In association with York Early Music Christmas Festival and Yorkshire Bach Choir.

Venue details

  • Wheelchair accessible

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