8 and 9 July will see the Oxford Bach Soloists taking part in the unique Kloster mahl anders Festival as part of their tour of Lower Saxony. Tom Hammond-Davies will direct performances of English and German sacred music from the Middle Ages to the Baroque in three fascinating historic medieval monastic churches in Lüneburg and Mariensee.
8 July
9 July
Marking the build up to the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation, the Kloster mahl anders Festival runs from April to October and is funded by Klosterkammer Hannover and the Braunschweig Cultural Heritage Foundation to enable people to experience how monastic values and faith traditions are lived.
14 protestant convents and female religious foundations and communities in Lower Saxony will open their doors with a colourful series of events. And the public will have the opportunity to meet monastic hosts and personalities, enjoy the produce from local monastery kitchens and be inspired by expert talks and performances such as those by the Oxford Bach Soloists. These twenty young professional singers will take us on a musical journey culminating in authentic baroque performances of cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach.
Festival brochure cover
The Oxford Bach Soloists programme will be centred around Bach’s cantata Christ lag in Todesbanden. This is part of a wider programme tracing the development of the “Victimae paschali laudes” plainchant through the centuries. This has been developed in partnership with Professor Henrike Lähnemann, Professor of Medieval German, Oxford.
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