Florilegium and a dream-team quartet of singers mark the month of Johann Sebastian Bach’s birthday with a celebratory evening of sacred and secular compositions. The composer’s music, central to the period-instrument ensemble’s repertoire since its foundation in the early 1990s, speaks of life’s heightened experiences and the infinite greatness of creation. Florilegium’s Palm Sunday programme opens with the graceful Sinfonia from one of Bach’s finest church cantatas and includes his Easter Oratorio, a joyful work launched with a blaze of trumpets and drums.
Programme:
Johann Sebastian Bach
Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats BWV 42: Sinfonia
Süsser Trost, mein Jesus kommt BWV 151
Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor BWV 1067
Easter Oratorio BWV 249
Performers:
Sophie Bevan, soprano
Rebecca Leggett, mezzo-soprano
Archie Inns tenor
Michael Craddock baritone
Florilegium
Ashley Solomon flute, director