Sinfonia Smith Square, Smith Square, London SW1P 3HA, UK
By turns radiant, intimate, exhilarating, and profound, the Mass in B minor stands among Bach’s greatest achievements in sacred music, bringing together virtuosic choruses and expressive arias in a work of extraordinary spiritual and emotional range.
The music of Tom Coult imagines new worlds – sensuous and strange, delicate and playful, rich and full of wonder. In this new work for the final concert in Wigmore Hall’s Voices of Today series, an old American ballad is filtered through the rhetoric of German Baroque music.