Name: Bach Magnificat
Start: 2023-12-09T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-12-09T00:00:00.000Z
Location: St Mary’s Church, Nottingham

Organization

Solomons Knot

Orchestra

Solomon's Knot

Bach Magnificat

Nottingham

United Kingdom

St Mary’s Church, Nottingham

Bach Magnificat: Cantata "Wachet! betet! betet! wachet!" BWV 70 Bach,JS (+2 More)

Public

Cantata "Wachet! betet! betet! wachet!" BWV 70

O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 60

Magnificat in D Major BWV 243

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Accordionist

Instrumentalist

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Theorbist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da gamba

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Actor

Broadcasting

Choir

Choreographer

Chorus Director

Chorus master

Composer

Conductor

Costume designer

Dancer

Dramaturge

Executive producer

Extra

Hairstylist

Illustrator

Librettist

Lighting designer

Makeup artist

Orchestra Operations

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Photographer

Poet

Repetiteur

Set designer

Sound designer

Stage Manager

Stage director

Teacher

Translator

Video designer

Vocal coach

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Tenor

Singer

Mezzo-soprano

Contralto

Soprano

Bass

Bass-baritone

Baritone

Countertenor

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

Spoken

In December 2023 we celebrate the 300th anniversary of one of the most significant professional appointments in music history. Johann Sebastian Bach’s path to the cantorship in Leipzig was far from easy – first Telemann, and then Johann Christoph Graupner were offered the job ahead of him – but it was the position he was to hold for the remaining 27 years of his life. The demands and opportunities of the job unleashed the composer’s full potential, above all in vocal music, producing the large-scale masterpieces which we still wonder at today, alongside a regular output of astonishing quality and quantity.

The cantor’s first major statement in his new job was the dazzling Magnificat in Eb major, written for the 25th December 1723. Ambitious in the extreme, even Bach himself made its demands a little easier when he came to revise it years later – an unusual step for a composer who generally couldn’t resist the temptation to embellish and enrich. We take the opportunity here, exactly 300 years on, to explore two other top-drawer vocal works which Bach wrote just a few months before the Magnificat: the cantatas O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort BWV 60 and Wachet! Betet! Betet! Wachet! BWV 70.

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Wachet! betet! betet! wachet! BWV70
O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort BWV60
INTERVAL
Magnificat in E-flat BWV243a with Christmas interpolations

English

Bach Magnificat by Bach, J. S., From (2023/2023), St Mary’s Church, Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

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