Closing concert

Bach Gala - Like a Christmas Oratorio...

… And it makes perfect sense! This work was included in the Christmas Oratorio. Bach changed the words, but the musical theme remains very similar. Which explains why this aria does not seem unfamiliar. This closing concert will be conducted by Clemens Schuldt, Music Director of the Orchestre symphonique de Québec, for a Christmas program before its time. The festivities continue with, among others, the Third Brandenburg Concerto and Haydn’s Queen’s Symphony, a perfect illustration of the splendors of the French court. Fine pleasures and elegance for a beautiful closing!

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750)
Cantate Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147

Opening choir: Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben

Cantate Es reißet euch ein schrecklich Ende, BWV 90
Concerto Brandebourgeois no 3

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714 – 1788)
Magnificat (extraits)

Joseph Haydn (1732 – 1809)
Symphonie no 85 « La Reine »

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1788)
Cantate Tönet, ihr Pauken! Erschallet, Trompeten! BWV 214

Festival Bach Montréal Orchestra
Chamber choir Les Eléments
Clemens Schuldt, conductor
Myriam LeBlanc, soprano
William Shelton, altus
Benedikt Kristjansson, tenor
Jonathon Adams, bass

Photo credit: Marco Borggreve