SHEFFIELD Bach Society begins its 59th season next Saturday, October 11, in enterprising fashion with a jazz-inflected concert of Mass in Blue by Will Todd and Mr Smith's Apocalypse by Michael Garrick.
With the Will Todd Jazz Ensemble and soprano Bethany Halliday it should be fun and is at St Mark's Church, Broomhill.
Except for Handel Messiah, as usual at Sheffield Cathedral on December 1 with Deborah Norman as the soprano soloist this year, al
l the concerts are at St Mark's.
On November 15, it's with Brahms' German Requiem paired with Bach's Cantata No 68 and, on February 21, Schubert's German Mass is sandwiched between Poulenc's jolly Gloria and Duruflé's Requiem.
The work that inspired it, the Fauré Requiem, is in the last concert of the season ending a concert of Bach's Mass in A, Lennox Berkeley's Missa Brevis and a setting by Schütz's of Psalm 100.
April 4 sees the society's tri-annual performance of Bach's St Matthew Passion.
Concert tickets are £13, £10 concessions, £6 students (at the door), under-16s free with a season ticket for all six concerts priced at £60 and £50 concessions.
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