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Prom 57: Bach’s Mass in B minor with the OAE

Live ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Proms: Five exceptional soloists, including Iestyn Davies and Mary Bevan, join John Butt and the OAE as they drive to the heart of Bach's sublime Mass in B minor.

Live at the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Proms: Five exceptional soloists, including Iestyn Davies and Mary Bevan, join John Butt and the OAE as they drive to the emotional core of this sublime music.

Presented by Hannah French live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Bach: Mass in B minor

Rachel Redmond and Mary Bevan (sopranos)
Iestyn Davies (countertenor)
Guy Cutting (tenor)
Matthew Brook (bass)
Choir of the Age of Enlightenment
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
John Butt (conductor)

Choral music offers few loftier spiritual or artistic challenges than Bach’s Mass in B minor – but then, few living performers are better equipped to tackle it than Baroque music specialist and scholar John Butt, and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. β€˜If any piece of classical music can be considered universal, I think it’s the Mass in B minor,’ says Butt. β€˜It goes down so well across a wide range of cultures.’ Five exceptional soloists (including counter-tenor Iestyn Davies and soprano Mary Bevan) join Butt and the OAE as they drive to the emotional core of this sublime music – and lay bare the passionate, profoundly devoted heart of the man who wrote it.

There will be no interval.

2 hours, 29 minutes

Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Mass In B Minor Bwv.232

    Performer: Rachel Redmond. Performer: Mary Bevan. Performer: Iestyn Davies. Performer: Guy Cutting. Performer: Matthew Brook. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: John Butt. Choir: Chorus Of The Age Of Enlightenment.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sonata for Piano Duet in F, K.497

    Performer: Sir AndrΓ‘s Schiff. Performer: George Malcolm.
    • DECCA.
  • Dieterich Buxtehude

    Toccata in G major, BuxWV 165

    Performer: Christopher Herrick.
    • Buxtehude: The Complete Organ Works - 2, Christopher Herrick, Organ of Nidaros C.
    • Hyperion.
    • 15.

Broadcast

  • Mon 29 Aug 2022 19:30

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