What’s on in York: Yorkshire Bach Choir: Bach at Christmas

Music – Choir Concert,
Sat 10 Dec 2016
 Yorkshire Bach Choir
Yorkshire Bach Choir

National Centre for Early Music

JS Bach’s Magnificat with its exuberant choruses, colourful orchestration and beautiful solo writing perfectly captures the divine joy of a pregnant Mary.

No less infectious, or musically varied, is CPE Bach’s stylish 1749 setting of the Magnificat which energetically reinvigorates the magnificence of his father’s earlier setting.

The ever-popular cantata BWV 140 Wachet auf (“Sleepers, wake”) is the ultimate musical wake-up call for Advent featuring some of JS Bach’s most memorable and timeless music.

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What’s on in York: Spiritato! at York Early Music Centre

Music – Classical,
Thu 8 Dec 2016
Spiritato!

Spiritato!National Centre for Early Music

National Centre for Early Music

Beginning with trumpet calls straight from the battlefield, this vibrant programme presents baroque brass at its dazzling best.

Featuring virtuosic works by Biber and Schmelzer, the ensemble blends the martial sound of no less than five natural trumpets with inventive and reflective pieces for strings – a showcase of all the pomp and majesty of an Imperial Court at the height of its powers.

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