THE MASS IN B MINOR
Sunday, February 22, 7:30 PM
First United Methodist Church, Evanston Ticket price: $60, $45, $38
A free pre-concert lecture presented by Carl Grapentine begins at 6:30 PM in the church chapel.
Monday, February 23, 7:30 PM
Harris Theater, Chicago
(Millennium Park)
Ticket Prices: $75, $60, $45, $38, $30
A free pre-concert lecture presented by Carl Grapentine begins at 6 PM in the Chicago Cultural Center (Randolph Café–north entrance).
This concert will be broadcast on WFMT 98.7 FM at 8 PM on Friday, May 8, 2009.
PROGRAM
Mass in B Minor, BWV 232
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Gloria: "Laudamus te" |
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Gloria: "Gratias agimus tibi" |
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Credo: "Et resurrexit" |
Music of the Baroque
Chorus and
Orchestra
A work of sublime beauty and transcendent power, performed with the insight and deep commitment that Music of the Baroque always brings to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Written across two decades and completed in Bach's final years, the Mass in B Minor is the glorious summation of an extraordinary musical life and one of the greatest creative achievements of all time.
RECOMMENDED RECORDINGS
Richard Hickox and Collegium Music 90 (Chandos)
Philipp Herreweghe and Collegium Vocale (Harmonia Mundi France)
John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, and the Monteverdi Choir (Archiv)