Christmas Concert — Bach's Mass in B minor

BOX OFFICE OPENING – 2026_2027 SEASON

From 18 to 21 June: exclusively for CCB Card holders

From 22 June onwards: general public

J. S. Bach's Mass in B minor stands as one of the most colossal works of his musical output. Its structural scope places us before a musical monument that resulted from a lifetime of labour. Bach, an exceptional composer in the reuse of musical materials, completed this mass in the final years of his existence, between 1749 and 1750. To this end, he used musical materials previously composed and some previously performed, dating back to the 1920s and 1930s, as well as newly composed pieces. The work presents a confluence of styles and compositional techniques that Bach adopted throughout his life, making it a unique piece, a synthesis of styles and contrasts, almost like a musical biography.

The piece invites us to enter the Bachian world through the richness of choral textures, the underlying stylistic variety, and an unmistakable formal mastery and command of writing for choir and orchestra. The Mass in B minor probably had its first complete performance in 1859, in Leipzig, more than a century after the composer's death.

Pre-concert conversation 30 minutes before.

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