Yorkshire Bach Choir

Conductor - Peter Seymour

Concert Series 2001/2002

St Michael-le-Belfrey, York



 

3 November 2001 at 7.30pm

£12.00 (concessions £10.00)

The North German Baroque and the Church’s Year

with Yorkshire Baroque Soloists

 

JS Bach           Cantata 61: Nun komm, der heiden Heiland (Advent)

Tunder             Cantata: Hosianna dem Sohne David (Advent)

Buxtehude       Cantata: Das neugeborne Kindelein (Christmas)

Buxtehude       Cantata: Jesu, meine Freude (Easter)

JS Bach           Cantata 4: Christ lag in Todesbanden (Easter)


Buxtehude and Tunder established the style of the north German Baroque cantata.  This concert sets their work alongside that of their younger contemporary Bach in a programme that explores different responses to the liturgical year.

With financial assistance from Yorkshire Arts.
Financially supported by Making Music from funds provided by Yorkshire Arts.


1 December 2001 at 7.30pm

£15.00 (concessions £12.00)
 

Handel - Messiah

Yvonne Seymour - soprano

James Bowman - counter tenor

Joseph Cornwell - tenor

David Thomas - bass

Yorkshire Baroque Soloists


Some of Handel’s best-loved music is found in Messiah, from the grandeur of the Hallelujah Chorus to the anguish of ‘He was despised’.  Now inextricably connected with the Christmas season, Messiah should form part of everyone’s celebrations.
 

Supported by Barclays



2 February 2002 at 7.30pm

£10.00 (concessions £8.00)
 

Music of the Iberian Peninsula and the New World

Victoria - Requiem and motets by Guerrero, Morales, Lobo, Padilla, Capillas


Iberia and its New World colonies saw a flowering of magnificent choral music in the service of the Church.   Bringing together Victoria's masterpiece, Requiem: Missa pro defunctis, with works by other composers from both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, this concert will be a feast of stunning sound.


9 March 2002 at 7.30pm

£15.00 (concessions £12.00)
 

Mozart - Requiem

Haydn - Nelson Mass

Emma Kirkby - soprano

Jeanette Ager - contralto

Joshua Ellicott - tenor

Thomas Thomaschke - bass

Yorkshire Baroque Soloists


We need - and offer - no excuse for performing two of our favourite works together.  Both Mozart's final work, heard here in the completion Duncan Druce made for Yorkshire Bach Choir in 1990, and Haydn's Nelson Mass are works of profound depth and marvellous invention.


25 May 2002 at 7.30pm

£10.00 (concessions £8.00)
 

Music & Politics

This programme explores repertoire occasioned by political events or making political comment and composers featured include Byrd, Lassus, Gombert and Schütz. From the subtle Catholic recusancy and comment of some of Byrd's motets to the flattering swagger of Schütz as he celebrates various events and treaties from the 30 Years' War, we explore the intimate relationship between music and politics.
 

Sponsored by Denison Till



22 June 2002 at 7.30pm

£12.00 (concessions £10.00)
 

Monteverdi

Spectacular psalms and motets from Selve morale e spirituale (1641) including Gloria à 7, Dixit Dominus à 8, Beatus Vir  à 6 and Magnificat à 8

The splendours of Renaissance Italy come brilliantly to life in the church music of Claudio Monteverdi, much of it written for St Mark’s in Venice. For sheer splendour of vocal sound and breathtaking originality, these psalms and motets are the equal of the composer’s famed 1610 Vespers.
 

Sponsored by Yorkshire Television


Yorkshire Bach Choir receives generous financial support from Arts Council of England, National Federation of Music Societies and Yorkshire Arts (with funds provided by the Arts Council of England).

Yorkshire Bach Choir acknowledges with thanks the generous sponsorship of Yorkshire Television and of Denison Till Solicitors, and the financial support of Barclays Bank, R.M. Burton Charitable Trust, the Trustees of the Earl of Harewood's Charitable Settlement and Sessions of York.

Booking Details

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