Tasb lecture: Exploring Bach's St Matthew Passion

Lecture by Sandy Burnett: This special presentation on Johann Sebastian Bach's Matthew Passion is a masterful work that combines tunefulness, craftmanship, dramatic power and spirituality in equal measure. Sandy guides us through music examples, picks out details in the score, examines Bach's autograph manuscripts, and reflects on the extraordinarily vivid Passion texts. After an overview of Bach's life and work, we explore each dramatic stage of the Passiontide drama, before reflecting on the work's context as one of the greatest Western artworks of all.
Drinks from 19.30, lecture starts at 20.00