Retrospect Ensemble (Bath Bach Fest)

A much acclaimed newcomer to the British early music scene, the Retrospect Ensemble visits Bath Bachfest with a programme of music by Bach for worship in the Lutheran church.

Retrospect Ensemble: choir and orchestra
Matthew Halls: director/harpsichord/organ
Julia Doyle: soprano
Christopher Ainslie: counter-tenor
Charles Daniels: tenor
Peter Harvey: baritone

JS Bach : Cantata No 42: Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats
Kuhnau: JS Bach Motet: Der Gerechte kommt um
JS Bach: Cantata No 150: Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich
JS Bach: Motet: Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden BWV 230
JS Bach: Lutheran Mass in G major BWV 236

A much acclaimed newcomer to the British early music scene, the Retrospect Ensemble visits Bath with a programme of music by Bach for worship in the Lutheran church. There are two works from his great cycle of cantatas for voices and instruments, No 42 for the first Sunday after Easter, which boasts a brilliant concerto like Sinfonia or overture, and No 150, an early piece with a closing Chaconne from which Brahms borrowed the theme of the finale of his Fourth Symphony. There are also two choral motets, the first of them arranged by Bach from a work by Johann Kuhnau, his predecessor at St Thomas#s, Leipzig; and one of the short Latin Masses
for feast days, consisting of Kyrie and Gloria, which Bach adapted from outstanding cantata movements, making them something of a treasury of his art.

Booking: Bath Box Office, Tel: (01225) 463362