Our December concert for 2019 pays tribute to Johann Sebastian Bach.
Centred on his scintillating Magnificat, the programme will also include works that reveal some of his musical influences. Bach held the great German organist Buxtehude in high esteem; his cantata Das neugeborne kindelein is radiant with the joy of new life. Palestrina (1526-1594) was one of the giants of the Italian style that so strongly marked the Baroque idiom of Bach and many others. We will present extracts of his Missa papae marcelli, along with a selection from the very poetic Canticum Canticorum, or Song of Songs.