Name: Bach's Mass in B minor
Start: 2024-05-10T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-05-10T00:00:00.000Z
Location: The Sheldonian Theatre

Admin

Academy of Ancient Music

Conductor

Owen Rees

Orchestra

Others

Choir of The Queen’s College

Singer

Soprano

Julia Doyle

Mezzo-soprano

Esther Lay

Tenor

Guy Cutting

Bass

Ashley Riches

Bach's Mass in B minor

Oxford

United Kingdom

The Sheldonian Theatre

Bach's Mass in B minor: Mass in B minor, BWV 232 Bach, J. S.

Public

Private

Mass in B minor, BWV 232

Samrat Sen

Approved

Choir of The Queen's College Oxford and AAM are led by Owen Rees in a performance at Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre.
The Mass in B Minor represents the culmination of Bach’s career as a composer of sacred music. Completion of this project was one of his last and largest projects, but within he adapted music that he had written decades earlier. Bach draws together a dazzling array of older and newer styles, from superlative displays of rich counterpoint to modern dance-influenced movements. The texts of the Mass provided him with opportunities for this rich variety and for dramatic juxtapositions of styles and characters.

This concert continues the acclaimed collaboration between the Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford and Academy of Ancient Music, a combination of the finest choral singing and an orchestra with a worldwide reputation for excellence in baroque and classical music.

Choir and orchestra are conducted by Owen Rees, Director of Music at The Queen's College, whose interpretations of choral music have been hailed as ‘revelatory and even visionary' (BBC Music Magazine).

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Ensemble