The Choir of The Queen’s College continues its acclaimed collaboration with the world renowned Academy of Ancient Music to perform Bach’s magnificent Mass in B Minor. Enriched with a star-studded line-up of soloists, this is not one to miss.
The Mass in B Minor represents the culmination of Bach’s career as a composer of sacred music. Completion of this project was one of his last and largest projects, but within it he adapted music that he had written decades earlier. Bach draws together a dazzling array of older and newer styles, from superlative displays of rich counterpoint to modern dance-influenced movements. The texts of the Mass provided him with opportunities for this rich variety and for dramatic juxtapositions of styles and characters.
Julia Doyle soprano
Esther Lay mezzo-soprano
Guy Cutting tenor
Ashley Riches bass-baritone
Choir of The Queen’s College, Oxford
Academy of Ancient Music
Owen Rees director
For any enquiries, please contact choir@queens.ox.ac.uk, or ring the Choir Office on 01865 289177.
