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BACH: MASS IN B
MINOR

In Spring 2023, the Monteverdi Choir,

English Baroque Soloists and John Eliot
Gardiner will perform one of the pinnacles
of Western music, Bach’s Mass in B minor.

Programme

J. S. Bach: Mass in B minor BWV232

Bach put his Mass together at the end of his life,

perhaps mindful of creating a lasting legacy,
recycling pieces he had written in the previous
decades and welding them together with new
music, creating a compendium of all the different
styles and approaches that he had taken during 30
or 40 years of music-making.

In his setting of the Latin text of the mass, Bach’s

resolve was not merely to mime the gestures of
belief, and to interpret doctrine via music of his
own invention, but to extend the very range of
music’s possibilities and through such exploration
to make sense of the world in which he lived and
whatever lay beyond it. From the opening
collective cry of ‘Kyrie’, to the winding fugues and
ultimate radiance of ‘Dona nobis pacem’, the
Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists will
reveal all the variety of a work which encompasses
wild virtuosity, immeasurable pathos and exuberant
joy. John Eliot Gardiner’s recordings (1985 and
2015) are regularly cited as benchmarks, revealing a
changing approach to a work which rewards infinite
exploration.

Photo credit: Astrid Ackermann

Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner - conductor

Concert dates:

7:30pm, Thursday 6 April 2023

Sage Gateshead, Gateshead, UK

7.00pm, Saturday 8 April 2023

Chapelle Royale, Château de Versailles, Versailles,
France

8.00pm. Tuesday 11 April 2023

Palau de la Música, Barcelona, Spain

8.00pm, Thursday 13 April 2023

Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg, Germany

8.00pm, Saturday 15 April 2023

Bozar, Brussels, Belgium

8.00pm, Monday 17 April 2023

Philharmonie, Luxembourg

8.00pm, Tuesday 18 April 2023

Alte Oper, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

7.30pm, Monday 24 April 2023

St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, UK

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