Having spent most of his career focusing on the large sacred and instrumental works, Gardiner now tells us that Bach’s motets – six short devotional works for double choir – “constitute ...

J.S. Bach’s motets are to the Bethlehem Bach Festival what MTV Unplugged is to rock’n’roll. You really get to hear the music. The motets sung by the 115-member Bach Choir of Bethlehem were ...

The Soloists’ weekend program, led by Music Director Jeffrey Thomas, ups the ante by focusing on Bach’s motets for double chorus, which allows extra opportunity for intricate counterpoint and ...

Thomas at St. James Cathedral, stuck to its European roots. However, the pair of concerts had a theme: the motets of Bach and how they influenced music that came after him. The main chorus ...

As one of Bach’s cantorial duties, the composer had to provide music for funerals. While most of the time he could rely on a standard collection of funeral motets, a wealthy family could sometimes ask ...

British choir Tenebrae perform a specially created programme combining Bach’s motets with a newly commissioned work by celebrated Scottish composer Sir James MacMillan. Show more Celebrated ...

Tafelmusik Chamber Choir presents Bach Motets & Company, the fourth rendition of their intimate concert experience, combining works by the Bach family with motets by two of J.S. Bach’s ...

As New College director of music Edward Higginbottom says in his sleeve notes: “The motets of J.S. Bach are small in number and confined in scope”. Confined in scope because they are all cast ...

Tafelmusik Chamber Choir presents Bach Motets & Company, the fourth rendition of their intimate concert experience, combining works by the Bach family with motets by two of J.S. Bach’s ...

19 19 people viewed this event. Tafelmusik Chamber Choir wraps up its 40th-anniversary season with a magical evening of Bach family motets and chorales written for choir and continuo, including ...

Tafelmusik presents a magical evening of motets and chorales written by members of the Bach family, including such treasures as J.S. Bach’s Jesu, meine Freude and Singet dem Herrn. The choral ...