The Mass in B Minor

Sunday, April 22, 7:30 pm: First United Methodist Church, Evanston; Ticket Prices: $60, $45, $38; April 22 tickets are sold out. Call 312.551.1414 for $25 obstructed view seats.
Monday, April 23, 7:30 pm: Harris Theater, Chicago

Ticket Prices: $75, $60, $45, $38, $30

Free pre-concert lectures by Carl Grapentine will take place before each concert. Lectures begin at 6:30 pm in the church, and at 6 pm in the Chicago Cultural Center’s Randolph Café before Harris Theater concerts.

This concert will be broadcast on WFMT on June 8, 2012.

Program

J. S. BACH: Mass in B Minor

Hear the Music

J. S. Bach: “Mass in B Minor, Dona nobis”; listen to a sample

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. Don’t miss this work of sublime beauty and transcendent power, performed with the insight and deep commitment that Music of the Baroque always brings to Bach’s sacred masterpieces.

Recommended Recordings

Bach, Mass in B Minor: Helmuth Rilling, Stuttgart Bach Collegium (Hänssler)

Quote: from the opening bars of Kyrie to the final outpouring of praise in the Dona Nobis Pacem…this was a singularly intimate as well as noble B Minor Mass — Chicago Sun-Times