Oxford Bach Soloists

Sound in my Body

Sunday 6th October 2019
New College Chapel, Oxford

Throughout the long summer and autumn Trinitarian period, the Lutheran lectionary’s emphasis on sin and sickness in mind and body reaches full tilt in expressions such as ‘The whole world is but a hospital’ in Cantata 25. But Bach’s music is the ‘balm of Gilead’ that heals all, above the ceaseless lament.

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Help my Unbelief

Sunday 3rd November 2019
New College Chapel, Oxford

The cantatas Bach was writing at this time deal with the theme of Christians rejecting the material world and its temptations so as not to risk losing union with God. Cantata 162 relates to the parable of the royal wedding feast to which ‘many are called but few are chosen’.

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A Baroque ensemble performing, in sequence,
the complete canon of J.S. Bach’s vocal works over 12 years.

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Sound in my Body

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