Contrapunctus: Motets by Bach & Schütz

Saturday 3 February 2024, 7.30pm
Chapel of The Queen's College

Tickets £5-£25, can be bought via the ticket tailor website.

Contrapunctus performs motets by the two finest composers of the German Baroque, Heinrich Schütz and Johann Sebastian Bach, including works for the major churches of Leipzig. Our programme includes Bach’s ebullient Lobet den Herrn and his monumental chorale-motet Jesu meine Freude. Schütz dedicated his motet collection Geistliche Chor-Musik (1648) to Leipzig city council and the famous choir of St Thomas’s Church. As well as the richly scored motets from this collection, the concert includes solos, duets, and trios from Schütz’s Kleine geistliche Concerte.

 

PROGRAMME
Lobet den Herrn (Bach)

Herr, auf dich traue ich (Schütz)
Spes mea Christe Deus (Schütz)
Die Seele Christi Heilige mich (Schütz)
Selig sind die Toten (Schütz)

Tristis est anima mea (Kuhnau)

O lieber Herre Gott (Schütz)

INTERVAL

Jesu meine Freude (Bach)

Eile mich, Gott, zu erretten (Schütz)
Die mit Tränen säen werden (Schütz)
Der Herr ist gross (Schütz)
Ich bin ein rechte Weinstock (Schütz)

'Seriously, startlingly good' – Gramophone

'Superb singing' – The Observer

'The singers shape each piece lovingly. Impeccable.' – The Sunday Times

LOCATION

Chapel of The Queen's College, Oxford, OX1 4AW