Bach's Jesu Meine Freude

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Saturday, April 5th, 2014
7:30 PM to 9:30 PM

Victoria Baroque Players

with the St John's Chamber Singers:�
"Jesu Meine Freude"

Programme:
J. S. Bach: 'Jesu meine Freude' BWV 227
Suite in B minor for flute and strings BWV 1067

D. Buxtehude: Cantata 'Jesu meine Freude' BuxWV 60
Cantata 'Alles was ihr tut' BuxWV 4

Soloists:
Emma Hannan & Eve Richardson, sopranos;

Adam Dyjach, tenor; Steven B�langer, baritone;
Soile Stratkauskas, baroque flute

played on period instruments

Tickets:�$25/$23 senior/$5 children & students

Available from the following outlets:
St John's office (M-F 9am-12pm), Long & McQuade, Munro's Books, Ivy's Bookshop, the Victoria Conservatory of Music, and at the door

Info:�250.652.0116�[email protected]
victoria-baroque.com


It has become a tradition for the Victoria Baroque Players in collaboration with St John's Chamber Choir to perform a concert of sacred music by Johann Sebastian Bach around the time of Holy Week. Now for the fourth year they offer a selection of works in tune with the Passiontide and Easter in a concert on Saturday April 5th, 7:30pm, at the Church of St John the Divine.

The programme includes Bach's magnificent motet Jesu Meine Freude paired with sacred works by Dieterich Buxtehude. Bach's motets are elaborate choral works full of imaginative counterpoint, tonal colour, and word painting. Based on a well-known Lutheran hymn, the motet 'Jesu meine Freude' for five-part choir takes the listeners through many moods from drama and anguish to a soothing and optimistic outlook.

Bach was a great fan of Buxtehude and famously walked from Arnstadt to L�beck, a total of 250 miles, to hear Buxtehude improvise on the the organ. Buxtehude, by some 40 years Bach's senior, also wrote a setting of 'Jesu Meine Freude', his version calling for for two sopranos and bass, which will be sung by sopranos Emma Hannan and Eve Richardson, and Vancouver-based baritone Steven B�langer. As is typical of Buxtehude's vocal works, there are beautifully-incorporated graceful instrumental interludes with the choral parts. Hannan and Richardson are no strangers to VBP/St John's concerts, and are quickly establishing reputations as sensitive and musical soloists. B�langer is a well-established figure on the Vancouver early music scene and regularly performs in the Early Music Vancouver Series and with the Vancouver Chamber Choir.

On the programme will also be Buxtehude's uplifting cantata 'Alles was ihr tut', and Bach's French-influenced Suite in B minor for solo flute and strings, with the VBP's artistic director, Soile Stratkauskas, as flute soloist. The twenty-six members of the St John's Chamber Singers, conducted by David Stratkauskas, include many professional musicians and advanced voice students.

The concert takes place in the beautiful Church of St John the Divine, an atmospheric and inspiring setting for Baroque music and sacred works.�