Programme

Ba h:
Cantatas

with Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Grand Auditorium
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Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts the Springhead Constellation, arms raised amid focused musicians and a full audience.
©: Richard Termine

What you’ll hear and see

The music

  • Johann Sebastian Bach «Christ lag in Todes Banden» BWV 4
  • Johann Hermann Schein «Was betrübst du dich, meine Seele» (Israelsbrünnlein)
  • Johann Sebastian Bach «Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis» BWV 21
  • Heinrich Schütz «Selig sind die Toten»
  • Johann Sebastian Bach Actus tragicus BWV 106
  • Johann Hermann Schein «Ich freue mich im Herren» (Israelsbrünnlein)
  • Johann Sebastian Bach «Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme» BWV 140

The artists

  • The Constellation Choir & Orchestra
  • Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducting

Few composers captured the human experience like Johann Sebastian Bach.

Grief, hope, joy, redemption… In this deeply expressive programme, Sir John Eliot Gardiner returns with his new Constellation Choir and Orchestra to explore some of Bach’s most moving cantatas, alongside works by baroque predecessors Heinrich Schütz and Johann Hermann Schein. From the meditative stillness of Actus Tragicus to the radiant optimism of Wachet auf, this is sacred music that still speaks, stirs, and resonates centuries on.
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Details

  • Date Sunday 14.06.26
  • Time 19:30
  • Duration 145' including a break
  • Room Grand Auditorium
  • Subscription Voyage dans le temps
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From Charpentier to Vivaldi and Bach, discover what «orchestra» meant back in the Baroque era!