Bach Through the Years
Sonoma Bach Choir · Live Oak Baroque Orchestra
Saturday, June 3 at 8 P.M. & Sunday, June 4 at 3 P.M.
Bachgrounder lecture 35 minutes before each performance
We wrap up ‘Bach’s World’ with a tour of the various epochs of Bach’s creative life, via a set of exciting works featuring trumpets and timpani. We open with Cantata 71: Gott ist mein König, premiered in Mühlhausen in 1708 at the inauguration of a new town council. We then offer the stunning Cantata 61: Nun komm der Heiden Heiland. After intermission, we present the famous Magnificat, written in 1723 in Leipzig and revised a few years later. And we close with the thrilling Cantata 191: Gloria in excelsis Deo, a 1742 re-working of several movements from the 1733 Missa which eventually was expanded into the Mass in B Minor.r. After intermission, we present the famous Magnificat, written in 1723 in Leipzig and revised a few years later. And we close with the thrilling Cantata 191: Gloria in excelsis Deo, a 1742 re-working of several movements from the 1733 Missa which eventually was expanded into the Mass in B Minor.
Sonoma Bach Choir · Live Oak Baroque Orchestra
Saturday, June 3 at 8 P.M. & Sunday, June 4 at 3 P.M.
Bachgrounder lecture 35 minutes before each performance
We wrap up ‘Bach’s World’ with a tour of the various epochs of Bach’s creative life, via a set of exciting works featuring trumpets and timpani. We open with Cantata 71: Gott ist mein König, premiered in Mühlhausen in 1708 at the inauguration of a new town council. We then offer the stunning Cantata 61: Nun komm der Heiden Heiland. After intermission, we present the famous Magnificat, written in 1723 in Leipzig and revised a few years later. And we close with the thrilling Cantata 191: Gloria in excelsis Deo, a 1742 re-working of several movements from the 1733 Missa which eventually was expanded into the Mass in B Minor.r. After intermission, we present the famous Magnificat, written in 1723 in Leipzig and revised a few years later. And we close with the thrilling Cantata 191: Gloria in excelsis Deo, a 1742 re-working of several movements from the 1733 Missa which eventually was expanded into the Mass in B Minor.
Anonymous, View of West Side of Thomasschule, Leipzig, 1732
“...Bach’s works do not merely please and delight...but irresistibly carry us away with them. They do not merely surprise us for a moment, but produce effects that become stronger the oftener we hear them. The boundless treasure of ideas heaped up in them, even when a thousand times considered, still leaves us something new to admire and to astonish us; and even he who is no connoisseur...can hardly refrain from admiration when they are well played and when he opens his ear and heart to them.” --J.N. Forkel, 1802