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JS Bach
Der Himmel lacht! Die Erde jubilieret (Heaven laughs! Earth exults), BWV 31
Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen (Weeping, lamenting, worrying, fearing), BWV 12
Der Friede sei mit dir (Peace be with you), BWV 158
Oster-Oratorium (Easter Oratorio), BWV 249

Soprano: Aileen Thomson
Mezzo-soprano: Esther Brazil
Tenor: Nick Pritchard
Baritone: George Robarts
Baritone: Humphrey Thompson

Bach’s festive scoring of his dramatic 1725 Easter Oratorio for orchestra and chorus tells the Easter story through four characters: Simon Peter, John the Apostle, Mary Magdalene and Mary Jacobe.

The Easter Oratorio provides the triumphant close to this concert which opens with Bach’s earliest cantatas for Easter Day, including some of the music he was to reuse in his immortal B Minor Mass.