This programme, led by artistic leader Johanna Soller, unfolds from the tiniest musical germ: the monophonic Gregorian chant Ave maris stella. The dark mood of this hymn changes to the Sinfonia in D minor by Bach’s eldest son Wilhelm Friedemann, who never became very popular, despite being a talented composer. It was a very different story for Carl Philipp Emanuel, the most successful of all the Bach children, who was known in the second half of the eighteenth century as ‘the big Bach’. His Magnificat, his first large-scale vocal work, exudes the spirit of his father’s Magnificat and Mass in B minor. At the same time, it casts a glance ahead to the music of Mozart, Beethoven and Haydn. 

• dirigent Johanna Soller sopraan Carine Tinney & Kristen Witmer alt Alexander Chance tenor Florian Sievers bas Jonas Müller
• programma Gregoriaans - Ave maris stella | Wilhelm Friedemann Bach - Sinfonia in d klein, Fk 65 | Johann Sebastian Bach - Magnificat, BWV 243 with Christmas additions | Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - Magnificat, Wq 215