February 28, 2020
NEW YORK BAROQUE INCORPORATED REUNITES WITH SAINT THOMAS CHOIR FOR C. P. E. BACH’S “THE LAST SUFFERINGS OF CHRIST”

Frequent collaborators with the Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys, New York Baroque Incorporated (NYBI) returns to the Fifth Avenue church on Thursday, March 26, 2020, for a Lententide performance of Carl Philip Emmanuel Bach’s Die letzten Leiden des Erlösers (“The Last Sufferings of Christ”). Saint Thomas’ Director of Music Jeremy Filsell will conduct; the soloists are sopranos Rebecca Kellerman and Sherezade Panthaki, alto Roger Isaacs, tenor Rufus Müller and bass Richard Giarusso.

Known during his time for cultivating the classical style of composition, the cosmopolitan son of Johann Sebastian Bach wrote Die letzten Leiden des Erlösers in 1770. It was performed annually in Hamburg until 1785 but is seldom heard today, having since been eclipsed by his father’s more frequently performed St. John and St. Matthew Passions. Die letzten Leiden des Erlösers is by turns contemplative and dramatic. It is one of 21 Passion settings penned by C. P. E. Bach while he was employed as Kappellmeister of the city of Hamburg from 1768 – 1788, the final two decades of his life. Previously associated primarily with keyboard music, during his Hamburg tenure C. P. E. Bach focused more on choral works and cantatas, having to produce a steady stream of music for the services and feast days for the city’s main churches.

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PERFORMANCE INFORMATION
March 26, 2020 – 7:30 pm

Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach (1714 – 1788) Die letzten Leiden des Erlösers (“The Last Sufferings of Christ”)

New York Baroque Incorporated
Wen Yang artistic director
with
Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys
Jeremy Fisell conductor
Rebecca Kellerman and Sherezade Panthaki sopranos
Roger Isaacs alto
Rufus Müller tenor
Richard Giarusso bass

Saint Thomas Church
One West 53rd Street (at Fifth Avenue)
New York, NY 10019

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