Barokorkest B'Rock & Vocalconsort Berlin olv. Benjamin Bayl

During the last days of the year, the Baroque orchestra B’Rock and Vocalconsort Berlin will be bringing a joyful message. Johann Sebastian Bach’s famous ‘Magnificat’ describes in detail the meeting between the pregnant Mary and the equally expectant Elizabeth. The opening part, with the blare of Baroque trumpets, sets the tone for one of the most impressive choral works ever created. The melancholy of the ‘Quia Respexit, the thundering power of the ‘Omnes Generationes’, the pastoral gentleness of the ‘Esurientes’, the ecstasy of the ‘Gloria’ in the finale... Bach’s account is versatile and majestic. In his ‘Magnificat’, his contemporary and fellow-countryman Johann Kuhnau uses expressive textures, overwhelming choral passages and subtle accompaniments and is on a par with the Bach version. Georg Muffat’s ‘Florilegium, Primum and Secundum Suites’ is the starting point for this wonderful baroque feast.