The Bach Choir’s annual performance of Bach’s St Matthew Passion with Florilegium, sung in English, is a much-anticipated fixture in London’s musical calendar. The St Matthew Passion features some of Bach’s most beautiful and poignant chorales, alongside rousing and striking choruses. This is a work that The Bach Choir is renowned for performing annually to [...]
Florilegium’s fruitful immersion in the music of Georg Philipp Telemann has opened fresh perspectives on the work of a German Baroque composer who bridged the gap between past styles and new musical fashions and cultivated an eclectic ‘mixed taste’, nourished by ideas from France, Italy and elsewhere. Discover Telemann’s seductive blend of old and new [...]
The Brandenburg Concertos (BWV 1046–1051) by Johann Sebastian Bach are widely regarded as some of the greatest orchestral compositions of the Baroque era. Director, Ashley Solomon, presents the concertos in reverse order, so that the number of players increases with each work. BACH JS: Brandenburg 6 BMW 1051 BACH JS: Brandenburg 5 BMW 1050 BACH [...]
The Mass in B minor is a remarkable work which combines all of Bach’s monumental gifts as a composer. It contains solos, duets, trios and incredible choruses in as many as eight parts, combining joy, sadness, melancholy but, above all, inspired melodic writing throughout. The lightness and control that The Bach Choir possesses makes this [...]