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Newcastle upon Tyne Bach Choir. J.S.Bach Mass in B Minor
Mhairi Lawson (soprano)
David Allsopp (alto)
Guy Cutting (tenor)
Peter Harvey (baritone)
Newcastle upon Tyne Bach Choir
Newcastle Baroque
Eric Cross (conductor
The music that eventually formed the Mass in B minor spans much of Bach’s career: and unusually, we have no record of the Mass ever being performed in Bach’s lifetime While Latin settings of the Kyrie and Gloria were sometimes sung in Lutheran services, there would not have been an opportunity to perform a full Latin mass setting as part of the Lutheran liturgy. It seems that the composer saw this, like other late works such as The Art of Fugue, as more of an intellectual exercise than something likely to be performed as a complete work.
Our performance on 16 November brings together four of the foremost specialist Bach singers in the UK along with the fine instrumentalists of Newcastle Baroque. As usual, the latter will be playing on period instruments that will make the most of Bach’s wonderfully varied orchestration, from the extraordinary sonorities of solo horn and two bassoons in the Quoniam section to the celebratory trumpets and drums in the joyful movements such as Et Resurrexit.
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David Allsopp (alto)
Guy Cutting (tenor)
Peter Harvey (baritone)
Newcastle upon Tyne Bach Choir
Newcastle Baroque
Eric Cross (conductor
The music that eventually formed the Mass in B minor spans much of Bach’s career: and unusually, we have no record of the Mass ever being performed in Bach’s lifetime While Latin settings of the Kyrie and Gloria were sometimes sung in Lutheran services, there would not have been an opportunity to perform a full Latin mass setting as part of the Lutheran liturgy. It seems that the composer saw this, like other late works such as The Art of Fugue, as more of an intellectual exercise than something likely to be performed as a complete work.
Our performance on 16 November brings together four of the foremost specialist Bach singers in the UK along with the fine instrumentalists of Newcastle Baroque. As usual, the latter will be playing on period instruments that will make the most of Bach’s wonderfully varied orchestration, from the extraordinary sonorities of solo horn and two bassoons in the Quoniam section to the celebratory trumpets and drums in the joyful movements such as Et Resurrexit.
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Sunday 16 November
King Hall, Armstrong Building, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear NE1 7RU
7:00pm.£22; students/benefits £5; under 18s free
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