Video of the Day: exploring Bach's B Minor Mass

Wednesday, March 31, 2021

A world-leading line-up of soloists discuss this choral masterpiece, ahead of Live from London's Easter broadcast

The Live from London Spring Festival will feature a special Easter broadcast of Bach's B Minor Mass, boasting a line-up of some of today's finest singers in this repertoire: soprano Carolyn Sampson, countertenor Iestyn Davies, tenor Jeremy Budd and bass-baritone Matthew Brook, along with the vocal ensemble VOCES8. They're joined by an equally impressive group of instrumentalists - the Academy of Ancient Music (with Rachel Podger as guest leader) - and the performance, recorded in London's historic church of St Bartholomew the Great, is conducted by Barnaby Smith.

Today's film features all four soloists, plus Rachel Podger, in a fascinating discussion with Barnaby Smith about what it's like to perform this choral masterpiece.
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The B Minor Mass from the Live from London Spring Festival will be broadcast on Easter Sunday, April 4, at 7pm BST. For full details, and to buy tickets, visit: Live from London Spring Festival 

On Monday we also published a beautiful preview film of a duet from that performance, Et in unum Dominum, performed by Sampson and Davies, which you can watch here.

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