Dunedin Consort / John Butt
NDR Das Alte Werk
The Scottish Dunedin Consort, led by John Butt, takes its name from the Gaelic version of the capital city, Edinburgh. The ensemble’s Bach, Handel and Mozart interpretations have gone on to win the Midem Baroque Award, the Gramophone Award and have been hailed as a »Recording of the Month« by the BBC many times.
In Hamburg, Dunedin Consort will perform two relatively seldom played »Lutheran Masses« that Bach wrote for the main church service when he was the musical director of the Thomanerchor, now an internationally known boys’ choir based in Leipzig. The pieces, composed according to the Protestant mass tradition, consist of only Kyrie eleisons and Glorias.
Bach, the archetype cantor, the fifth evangelist, minstrel of God – the post he loved the most was chapel bandmaster at the court in Köthen, Anhalt. There he created »chamber music« for the elite, for example, his Orchestra Suite in c minor BWV 1066. Spiritual Bach, worldly Bach: the universe, however, stays the same.
Performers
Dunedin Consort
Maria Keohane soprano
Robin Blaze alto
Nicholas Mulroy tenor
Matthew Brook baritone
director John Butt
Programme
Johann Sebastian Bach
Orchestersuite Nr. 1 C-Dur BWV 1066
Messe in G-Dur für Soli, Chor und Orchester BWV 236 / Missa Brevis (Lutherische Messe)
Messe in A-Dur für Soli, Chor und Orchester BWV 234 / Missa Brevis (Lutherische Messe)