BACH CANTATAS

Bach Cantatas
15th February 2016
1.05pm
Leeds Town Hall

This selection of Cantatas has everything, from the plaintive serenity of single-movement funeral cantata 'O Jesu Christ, my soul's true light', the wistful duet of bass and oboe as Christ contemplates his final journery to Jerusalem, through he famous Soprano aria 'My heart ever faithful', described by Sir John Eliot Gardiner as 'surely one of Bach's most refreshing and unbuttoned expressions of melodic joy and high spirits, to Bach's youthfully exuberant and innovative setting of Martin Luther's Easter hymn 'Christ lay in death's dark shadow'.
O Jesu Christ, mein Lebens Licht BWV 118
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sehet, wir gehn hinauf gen Jerusalem BWV 159
Johann Sebastian Bach
Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt BWV 68
Johann Sebastian Bach
Christ lag in Todesbanden BWV 4
Johann Sebastian Bach

Kristina James - soprano
Lucy Appleyard - mezzo soprano
Peter Condry - tenor
Quentin Brown - bass
Alan Horsey - continuo
Principals of National Festival Orchestra
Sally Robinson - leader
St Peter's Singers
Simon Lindley - Conductor