Sacred Bruckner

SACRED BRUCKNER

FAVOURITE MOTETS, A RARELY PERFORMED REQUIEM AND THREE TROMBONES

The spacious chapel of Prior Park College will resound to a trio of trombones as they introduce Bath Bach Choir’s spring concert of sacred works by Anton Bruckner. The choir will perform his glorious Requiem in D minor, several of his most loved motets, including Locus iste and some that are perhaps less well-known. Among the choral works there will be a rare performance of Psalm 114 with its glorious 5-part double fugue.

Celebrating the two-hundredth anniversary of Bruckner’s birth, the programme will showcase the breadth of the composer’s writing as well as the full range of the choir’s skills, with an opportunity to hear some unusual combinations of singers and instruments. There will be all the excitement of the symphonic landscape, reworked by Bruckner for choral singing without diminishing the thrilling dynamic and harmonic ranges for which he was renowned.

Prior Park College is an 18th century mansion overlooking the city of Bath and is set in 57 acres of parkland. Designed by John Wood the Elder, its Grade I listed chapel, dedicated to Our Lady of the Snows, is an integral part of the building and resembles a magnificent Roman basilica. The splendid organ of the chapel, built by Matthew Copley in 1984, will be expertly played by the choir’s loyal accompanist and soloist Marcus Sealy.  The choir is delighted to be joined by the trombone section of the Southern Sinfonia, one of the most distinctive orchestral ensembles in the south of England.

“This promises to be one of Bath Bach Choir’s most exciting concerts! The huge space of Prior Park College Chapel is the ideal setting for Bruckner’s religious choral music. I can’t wait to hear the choir’s inimitable sound reverberating under its vaults!”

Benedict Collins Rice, conductor

Anton Bruckner 

• Aequale I and II
• Requiem in D minor
• Motets including Locus iste
• Ave Maria WAB 6
• Ave Maria WAB 7
• Psalm 114

Southern Sinfonia trombones

Marcus Sealy organ

Benedict Collins Rice conductor

bathbachchoir.org.uk