Yorkshire Bach Choir

Conductor - Peter Seymour

Concert Series 1998/99

St Michael-le-Belfrey, York


Saturday 24th October 1998 at 8:00 p.m.

£8.50 (£6.50)

1648 - The End of the Thirty Years' War

Music by Schütz and his contemporaries

Yorkshire Baroque Soloists

The Treaty of Westphalia, signed on this day 350 years ago, brought the devastation of the Thirty Years' War to an end. Composers celebrated peace in Europe with a flurry of music, both triumphal and reflective.


28 November 1998 at 8.00 pm

£8.50 (£6.50)

Music for St Cecilia

Music by Henry Purcell, John Blow and Daniel Purcell

Yorkshire Baroque Soloists

Celebrations for the Feast Day of the patron saint of music were lavish in 17th and 18th century England and composers responded with some of their best work in her honour. The programme includes Henry Purcell's Welcome to all the pleasures and his Te Deum and Jubilate as well as odes by Daniel Purcell and Blow specially edited for this concert.


6th February 1999 at 8:00 p.m.

£7.50 (£5.50)

Musical Pilgrimage

Tallis - Lamentations

Music for Rome by Carissimi, Charpentier and Victoria

Spiritual and real pilgrimage are brought together in this concert, with Tallis's superb setting of the Lamentations contrasting with works by composers who worked in Rome and saw it as their spiritual home.

13th March 1999 at 7:30 p.m.

£10.00 (£7.50)

J.S. Bach - St John Passion

Evangelist: Joseph Cornwell
Christus: David Thomas
Yorkshire Baroque Soloists

Written in 1724, the St John Passion is one of five passion settings by Bach, of which only this and the St Matthew survive. Its dramatic narrative and pleading arias make it a powerful and moving work. This performance is paired with his St Matthew Passion to be performed by University of York Chamber Choir on wednesday 10th March.


22nd May 1999 at 8:00 p.m.

£7.50 (£5.50)

Poulenc and Sweelinck

Poulenc - Mass in G

Sweelinck - Motets from Cantiones Sacrae

Poulenc and Sweelinck are widely contrasting composers, united in their moving response to sacred texts. This unusual coupling will offer a new light on the work of two composers whose choral music is sadly neglected.

19th June 1999 at 8:00 p.m.

£8.50 (£6.50)

Monteverdi - Vespers of 1610

This performance will be given in Monteverdi's most intimate version, with the rich vocal textures accompanied solely by continuo instruments, revealing still more clearly the astonishing invention of his solo and choral writing.

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