Bach Cantata Vespers
When: Sun, Oct 25 · 3:00 PM CDT
Where: Online
Hosted by Grace Lutheran Church & School
About this event
Cantata Höchsterwünschtes Freudenfest, BWV 194 Most highly desired festival of joy
Bach wrote this cantata for the dedication of a new Hildebrandt organ at the church in the small village of Störmthal. The first performance on November 2, 1723, was sung by members of the Leipzig Thomanerchor, with Bach’s wife, Anna Magdalena Bach, as the soprano soloist. It was sung again in Leipzig on Trinity Sunday, 1724.
Violinists Betty Lewis and Paul Zafer perform J. S. Bach’s famous Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, BWV 1043, with the Bach Cantata Vespers Orchestra, as the prelude to the service at 3:45 p.m. Join us at 3:00 p.m. in the Seminar Room at Grace for a pre-service lecture by Jason J. Moy on the day’s cantata. Moy is Artistic Director of Ars Musica Chicago and one of the most sought-after early keyboard specialists in the Midwest. He serves on the faculties of the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University and DePaul University, as well as Associate Music Director of Bach in the City.
Homilist Brian E. Konkol, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana
Prelude J. S. Bach: Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, BWV 1043 Betty Lewis and Paul Zafer, violinists Richard Hillert: Prelude to Evening Prayer
Motet Vaclovas Augustinas, Cantate Domino
Musicians Bach Cantata Vespers Chorus and Orchestra Grace Cantor Michael D. Costello, conducting Carolyne DalMonte, soprano Samuel Rosner, tenor Jared Esguerra, tenor