Baroque Masters - Bach & Handel
7:30pm, Sat, 15 Nov 2025
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Type of event: Performance Start time: 7:30pm Venue: All Saints Church
Wiltshire Road
Wokingham
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A concert of wonderful music by Bach and Handel featuring 5 professional soloists and a Baroque orchestra of strings, woodwind, trumpets, harps and timpani.
Bach Magnificat
Handel Ode to St Cecilia's Day
First performed on 22 November 1739, this stirring piece celebrates Saint Cecilia as the patron saint of music and musicians. The cantata’s text is a setting of a 1687 poem by John Dryden based on the Pythagorean theory of harmonia mundi, linking the movement and origin of the celestial bodies to music. The opening chorus, From harmony, from heavenly harmony, praises the power of music.
This beautiful setting of the biblical canticle, Magnificat, was Bach's first major liturgical composition on a Latin text. The canticle is Mary’s song of praise in recognition of the fulfilment of the Angel Gabriel’s prophecy that she would bear Jesus.
