The experience of absorbing myself in his music for month after month has really brought home to me what an outstanding musician he was. “Johann Sebastian Bach has always been a favourite composer of mine,” says the group’s music director Sandy Burnett, “but I have even more respect for him than I did 13 years ago. The mission – to perform all of Bach’s surviving sacred cantatas – has meant several concerts each year, huge amounts of work from an unpaid army of volunteers, enormous amounts of score study and planning, and hundreds upon hundreds of hours of practise. It’s the end of an era for the West London Bach Consort and Players – their concert of Bach’s cantatas at 7:30pm on Sunday 12th December at St Michael and All Angels Church, Bath Road, Chiswick, London W4 represents the final step in a long musical journey that began right back in October 1997. End of an era: the final Bach Cantatas 7.30pm, Sunday 12th December 2010 Sandy talks about the Cantatas on YouTube, writes below and blogs at. The hour-long concerts have been free, with a retiring collection for projects at the Upper Room ( project was further celebrated with a performance in the Church ofīach's Mass in B Minor on Sunday February 6th at 7.30pm. Bach’s sacred cantatas* at St Michael & All Angels. West London Bach Consort and Players - 2010Īfter 13 years, the West London Bach Players and Consort, conducted by Sandy Burnett (right), have completed their epic performing cycle of J.S.
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The next event in this series will be the performance of Bach's St Matthew Passion to be held on Sunday February 5th at 7.30pm in St Michael and All Angels Church
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Admission was free there was a retiring collection in aid of the Upper Room, which feeds and supports the community in need in West London. The soloists included Guy Cutting, Lisa Rijmer, Jeremy CollinĪnd Paul Sheehan, and Sandy Burnett conducted the West London Bach Consort and Players. Three days later, at 8:00pm on Sunday 16th October 2011, there was a complete performance of Bach's St John Passion BWV 245 in St Michael and All Angels Church, Chiswick, London W4 1TT, as part of the ongoing sacred Bachseries there. This was the first in a series of Classic Discovery events designed to introduce classical music to intelligent people, and to deepen the knowledge of those who are already cognoscenti.
how the St John Passion was originally intended to be performed.Sandy approached the masterpiece from several different angles: This is a gripping, at times terrifying, narrative - for me the way Bach illuminates the account in John's Gospel of Jesus's betrayal, trial, crucifixion and death is more vivid than any other musical work before or since." Standout feature of this piece isn't the music - it's the way he puts his astonishing musical skills entirely at the service of the Passion story. "We think of Bach first and foremost as a supreme musical craftsman," Sandy writes, "but the October 2011 saw two sacred Bach events centred around the St John Passion at St Michael and All Angels Church in Bedford Park, following in the footsteps of the long-running Bach sacred cantata cycle which took place there from 1997-2010.Īt 8:00pm on Thursday 13th October in the Michael Room, conductor and broadcaster Sandy Burnett discussed JS Bach's St John Passion, one of the greatest religious works in the repertoire of classical music. Bach Cantatas at St Michael & All Angels West London Bach Consort and Players
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