British choir Tenebrae perform a specially created programme combining Bach’s ... programme of music, contrasting Bach’s iconic motets with sacred works by Sir James MacMillan.

ON A cold and very wet evening in Cumnock, East Ayrshire, people were gathering in St John’s Roman Catholic Church to hear the superb choral ensemble Tenebrae under the direction of Nigel Short.

Beyond the Bunny: Bach and Organs and Sacred Songs Share full article Compiled by Anne Mancuso March 25, ...

Tenebrae brings its trademark passion and precision to this dramatic programme, contrasting Bach’s iconic motets with the sacred music of Sir James MacMillan. Renowned for their technical ...

have been described as the summit of Bach's sacred music for solo organ. Chorale harmonizations can also be found in Bach's motets and in his Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach. Almost all of the ...

A jobbing composer under pressure to produce a constant stream of music; an artist and visionary reaching the divine and speaking directly to the heart of the human experience: Bach’s sacred ...

Less a journey than a welcome revelation, the program presented two contrasting cantatas, a vibrant motet ... of some of Bach's most characteristic but least explored repertoire, music that ...

His eyes light up when he talks about, well, everything really, but especially sacred music and his time at the Composition Institute with renowned composer Sir James Macmillan. The Composition ...

Bach also figures into two of the four programs announced for the Portland Early Music Festival in October ... both secular and sacred. The concert began with an interesting choice.

Week in and week out, from Pentecost to Advent, from Epiphany to Lent, Bach crafted cantatas, motets and chorales ... when the Scholars of London sing sacred music from the 17th to the 20th ...