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The Bach Choir – Bach’s Mass in B Minor – Live Review

Tuesday 26 May 2026 The Royal Festival Hall, London ★★★★★ The Bach Choir’s moving and supremely human interpretation marks the 150th anniversary of their first performance of Bach’s masterpiece The Bach Choir © Marc Gascoigne Tuesday night’s concert marked another significant milestone in The Bach Choir’s 150th anniversary season, which opened late last year with …

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A Visit to Thomas Kirche (St Thomas’s Church) in Leipzig, Home of the Music of JS Bach – Music Across the Generations and Across the Centuries

Saturday 17 May 2025 Thomas Kirche, Leipzig In 1723, Johann Sebastian Bach left his job as Kapellmeister to Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, and travelled with two carriages to Leipzig, where he was appointed Thomaskantor, director of church music. On a Saturday afternoon, just over 300 years later, as a thunderstorm threatened, leading to a downpour of …

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