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Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists

Petroc Trelawny presents a concert from the 2010 Aldeburgh Festival, John Eliot Gardiner conducts the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists in Bach's Mass in B minor.

Presented by Petroc Trelawny

One of the towering landmarks of Western music, Bach's B minor mass may not have been originally conceived as a complete work, yet it is extraordinarily coherent in its architectural grandeur and complexity and in its outpouring of emotion, something which has arguably never been matched in any subsequent mass setting.

In this concert from the Aldeburgh Festival, Sir John Eliot Gardiner brings his considerable depth of knowledge of Bach's music to this magnificent work.

Bach: Mass in B minor

Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
conductor John Eliot Gardiner

Followed by Aldeburgh Revisited - performances by musicians with a close association with Benjamin Britten and the Aldeburgh Festival.

Mozart: Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor (Second movement)
Clifford Curzon, piano
English Chamber Orchestra
Benjamin Britten, conductor

Debussy: Prelude a l'apres midi d'un faune
English Chamber Orchestra
Benjamin Britten, conductor

2 hours, 15 minutes

Broadcast

  • Tue 29 Jun 2010 19:00