10 March 2012
St Michael le Belfrey, York
at 7.30 pm (ends c. 9.30 pm)
Tickets £20 (£18)
| Bach | Magnificat BWV 243 |
| Easter Oratorio BWV 249 | |
| Ascension Oratorio BWV 11 |
Thomaskirche, Leipzig
Photo: Andrew Jackson
Yorkshire Baroque Soloists
conducted by Peter Seymour
Bach’s Magnificat is always one of his most accessible and popular pieces. The two oratorios, also scored for his festival orchestra (trumpets, timpani, oboes, flutes, bassoon and strings) have a self-contained ‘plot’, or take the form of narration with dialogue, but otherwise are not dissimilar to Bach’s church cantatas or Christmas Oratorio with the persuasive mixture of choruses, chorales, recitatives and arias.
