The Capriccio Baroque Orchestra
with Nuria Rial in Cham
On Sunday, November 23, 2014, 17:00, the Audite Nova Choir will perform a concert of works by the baroque master, Johann Sebastian Bach, in St. Jacob’s Church, Cham.
The programme includes two works for choir, soloists and orchestra. Both are impressive examples of Johan Sebastian Bach’s remarkable creative output.
“Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme”, BWV 140, is one of Bach’s most famous cantatas. It was composed for the comparatively rare Totensonntag (Sunday of the Dead) – the 27th Sunday after Trinity Sunday – and was first performed on November 25, 1731. Based on a stately Lutheran hymn, it includes delightful virtuoso passages for choir and soloists.
Bach composed the Missa of 1733, BWV 232a, to demonstrate his skill as a composer in a bid to persuade the Elector of Saxony to appoint him as Royal Court Composer, which Bach achieved in 1736. This Lutheran mass is a missa brevis consisting of only the Kyrie and Gloria of the Latin mass, and it provides the foundation of one of Bach’s greatest works. In the last years of his life Bach added further movements to the unaltered Missa to complete his famous Mass in B minor.
Under the direction of Johannes Meister, this concert will feature the Capriccio Baroque Orchestra, the best known baroque orchestra in Switzerland, as well as Nuria Rial, a young soprano increasingly in demand internationally, Margot Oitzinger (alto), Jakob Pilgram (tenor), Christian Immler (bass) and the hundred-strong Audite Nova Choir. The audience can be assured of a wonderful concert of baroque masterworks.
Ticket sales: link “Book tickets” on this page or by telephone 0900 441 441 (CHF 1/min.)
Tickets priced from CHF 25 to CHF 65; students and trainees up to age 25: CHF 15
Photo credit: Mercé Rial
