Burlington Baroque Festival : JS Bach’s B Minor Mass

*Pre-concert panel at 6:30 p.m. – Baroque Artists and their Instruments
Our artists-in-residence showcase their baroque instruments.

Johann Sebastian Bach assembled the monumental B minor Mass in the last years of his life, a compendium of some of his greatest works from across the length of his storied career. He viewed it as a summation of his life’s work in sacred music, and had it bound in a volume that would lay ignored for decades. Without question, one of the greatest masterworks in all of Western Music, the variety of styles, rhetorical flourishes, and magnificent orchestrations expand a simple Mass Text into a tour de force baroque composition, never to be rivaled. To hear it with period instruments and a suitably small vocal ensemble is to hear it (unlike most modern performances) as Bach conceived it, an opportunity not to be missed.
Featured soloists are:
Len Torrie, soprano (Montreal)
Myriam Leblanc, soprano (Montreal)
Nicholas Burns, alto (Vancouver)
Philippe Gagné, tenor (Montreal)
Sumner Thomson, bass (Boston)
William Kraushaar, bass (Montreal)