J S Bach: St John Passion

Paul Hale: Conductor. Ruairi Bowen. Evangelist: Stephen Cooper. Christus: Clare Lloyd-Griffiths, Soprano Jessica Gillingwater, Mezzo-soprano David de Winter, Tenor Greg Skidmore Bass

Nottingham Bach Choir deliver ‘one of their best performances of recent years’ at St Mary’s Church

Bach’s Passions, his musical settings of the events of Good Friday, are the nearest things to operas that he wrote. The compelling biblical narrative…

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JS Bach: Christmas Oratorio BWV 248 Parts I, II, V & VI

Conductor: Roger Bryan. Soloists: Ruth Provost, Martha McLorinan, Peter Davoren & Andrew Ashwin

About this Work

In late 1734, and in his eleventh year as Thomaskantor in Leipzig, Bach composed a major new cycle of six cantatas. The cantatas were to be performed at the Thomaskirche and the Nikolaikirche on six feast days from Christmas…

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Vivaldi: Gloria

Soloists: Alison Rose (Soprano), Jeremy Jepson (Alto)

AS befitting a Diamond Jubilee concert, there was a lot to celebrate.

First of all, Her Majesty’s glorious reign, so it was right and proper that the Bach Choir opened with a full-throated setting of the National Anthem and ended with a specially…

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Bach: St Matthew Passion (BWV 244)

Soloists: Mary Bevan (Soprano), Katie Bray (Alto), Andrew Tortise (Evangelist) and Joshua Ellicott (Arias) (Tenor), Stephen Cooper (Christus) and Marcus Farnsworth (Arias) (Bass)

EVEN before the first note of the Nottingham Bach Choir’s performance on Saturday the audience knew that the narrative was paramount.

Suspended above the choir in Southwell Minster was a huge screen on which were projected translations of every…

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Mendelssohn: Te Deum | Schubert: Mass in G | Bach: Jesu, meine Freude (BWV 227)

Soloists: (members of the Nottingham Bach Choir) Susannah Hale (Soprano), Tim Bacon (Alto), David Tranter (Tenor), Stephen Cooper (Bass)

THE Bach Choir’s programme was well-chosen for a summer Saturday. Not too much knotty complexity – but plenty of light-textured music thoughtfully split between the concert’s two halves with choral music interspersed with solo organ works.

There…

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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 | Brahms: Schicksalslied

Soloists: Caroline Trutz (Soprano), Katie Bray (Mezzo), Ben Thapa (Tenor), Thomas Faulkner (Bass)

MEMBERS of the Nottingham Bach Choir joined forces with the Nottingham Symphony Orchestra under Derek Williams for an energy-laden evening of Beethoven and Brahms which demonstrated just how powerfully both composers speak to our emotions.

Beethoven’s…

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