Arguably J.S. Bach’s most towering achievement, Emmanuel Music rounds out the 2024-25 performance season by putting our trademark stamp on the great Mass in B Minor, a work of vocal and orchestral mastery. Completed only one year before his death, Bach himself never heard the work, but used this setting of the Mass Ordinary to showcase the prowess, ingenuity, and flexibility he had spent his lifetime honing. Join us and immerse yourself in Bach’s magnificent sonic landscape, featuring twelve vocal soloists and an orchestra including three oboes, two bassoons, two flutes, trumpets, horn, timpani, and strings.

Listen to Ryan Turner talk through the B Minor Mass with Brian McCreath on WCRB's The Bach Hour

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Learn more about the Bach’s Mass in B Minor

Listen to cantatas re-imagined by Bach for use in the B Minor Mass