Bach's St Mark Passion
Location
The Apex, 1 Charter Square, Bury St Edmunds IP33 3FD
Telephone
01284 758000- Next Event
- 29th March 2025 7:30pm
- Event Finishes
- 29th March 2025 9:30pm
About this event
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.
Hilary Cronin soprano
TBC alto
Hugo Hymas tenor
Ben Noble bass
The Geldart Ensemble
Bury Bach Choir
Benedict Collins Rice conductor
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
About the Venue
The Apex is an award-winning venue, known for its acoustic excellence and home to a diverse programme of live music and events; from classical concerts to pop, rock, jazz, blues, world, country and folk, plus comedy and dance performances.
It also hosts a number of community and corporate events, offering the local community and wider environs a unique and exciting space from which visitors can see a great selection of artists, bands and events.
It has been very well publicised (and we never tire of hearing it!) that, as well as its architectural beauty, The Apex also has the very best acoustics, with many musicians who've played here describing it as the best acoustic in the UK, if not Europe:
"Best new venue in the UK. Absolutely superb" - Funeral For A Friend
"Best acoustic wee had in 40 years of touring" - Fairport Convention
"The best hall we have ever played in" - The Escher String Quartet