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Bach Feast Days: Ascension
Wigmore Hall, London
27 May 2022, 7:30pm
Gabrieli Consort & Players perform J.S. Bach.
Mary Bevan soprano
Tim Mead countertenor
Thomas Walker tenor
Malachy Frame baritone
Marking the Christian feast of Ascension is Bach’s oratorio, probably composed for that occasion in 1735 in the wake of earlier pieces celebrating Christmas and Easter: several of its sections were recycled from earlier compositions, while another subsequently found its way into the B minor Mass. As with Bach’s Passions, the piece is led narratively by an Evangelist, in this instance tenor Thomas Walker.