Organization

Conductor

John Butt

Singer

Soprano

Julia Doyle

Helen Charlston

Mezzo-Soprano

Tenor

Nicholas Mulroy

Bass

Matthew Brook

Mezzo-soprano

Alto

Contralto

Dunedin Consort

Others

Orchestra

Leipzig 300

Edinburgh

United Kingdom

The Queen's Hall

Perth

Australia

Perth Concert Hall

Leipzig 300: Overture in E flat major GWV 429 Graupner (+5 More)

Public

Overture in E flat major GWV 429

Viola Concerto, TWV 51:G9

Gleich wie der Regen und Schnee vom Himmel fällt, BWV 18

Jesus schläft, was soll ich hoffen?, BWV 81

Jauchzet dem Herrn alle Welt

Cantata 181 ‘Leichtgesinnte Flattergeister’

Approved

When Bach took up the position as Kantor at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig in 1723, he could hardly have anticipated the indelible imprint his appointment would have upon the future of western classical music. One of his main duties was to compose liturgical cantatas for every Sunday and feast day of the church year, and in his first four years alone he composed an astonishing 150 cantatas. 300 years on from that historic appointment, we look back at his first cantata cycle in Leipzig, and the rich creative environment that surrounded him as he made musical history.

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