Bach St Mark Passion 

Saturday 29 March 2025

7.30pm

(ends 9.30pm approximately)

The Apex, Charter Square, Bury St Edmunds

Bach's St Mark Passion (BWV 247)

Hilary Cronin soprano

Tom Lilburn countertenor

Hugo Hymas tenor

Ben Noble bass

The Geldart Ensemble

Bury Bach Choir

Benedict Collins Rice conductor

Three weeks before Easter, we perform Johann Sebastian Bach’s St Mark Passion (BWV 247), which tells the story of Jesus as described in St Mark’s gospel chapters 14 and 15. The first of several performances was in Leipzig, during Easter 1731, and though some of Bach’s music was since lost (seemingly by his publisher), the libretto (by Bach’s long term librettist Christian Friedrich Heinrici) survived.

As Bach was required to produce music for every church service, he often reworked music he had written to fit a new text in the same poetic metre and style. This has enabled scholars to work backwards and complete a reconstruction of this wonderful Passion setting. In this concert we will be performing the 1997 reconstruction by A.H. Gomme.

The Bury Bach Choir will be accompanied by The Geldart Ensemble, with four wonderful soloists.

Although we have often performed Bach’s St Matthew and St John Passions, this will be the choir’s first performance of the St Mark Passion in our 93-year history and will probably be the first time you’ve heard it too.  Very exciting indeed.

All seats reserved

Booking opens 9 September 2024

Tickets £25, £20 and £15 (half price for under-30s) plus Apex booking fee £2.00 

Early booking discount £1 off all full price tickets booked by 2 January 2025

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