Name: Bach St John Passion
Start: 2024-03-16T19:30:00Z
End: 2024-03-16T21:45:00Z
Location: Holywood Parish Church

Bach St John Passion

The Ulster Consort

The Ulster Consort celebrates the 300th anniversary of this work with an historically informed performance using small forces.

Holywood Parish Church

Bach’s first passion setting, the St John, was first performed in Leipzig on Good Friday in 1724. The Ulster Consort celebrates this significant anniversary with an historically informed performance and small forces. The work is led by the Evangelist and Christus, with step out solos from the Consort, and a four-part choir. They are accompanied by a band of some of the leading period instrumentalists in Europe, consisting of baroque strings, flutes, oboes (doubling on oboe da caccia), viola d’amore, viola da gamba, harpsichord, and organ. This rich vocal and orchestral palette is put to full use in a fusion of Lutheran liturgy, theatrical choruses, operatic arias, and meditative hymns (or chorales) in one of the most powerful, dramatic, and moving creations of the early 18th century.

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