Johann Sebastian Bach assembled the monumental B minor Mass in the last years of his life, a compendium of some of his greatest works from across the length of his storied career. He viewed it as a summation of his life's work in sacred music, and had it bound in a volume that would lay ignored for decades. Without question one of the greatest masterworks in all of Western Music, the variety of styles, rhetorical flourishes and magnificent orchestrations expand a simple Mass Text into a tour de force baroque composition, never to be rivaled. To hear it with period instruments and a suitably small vocal ensemble is to hear it (unlike most modern performances) as Bach conceived it, an opportunity not to be missed.

J.S. Bach: Mass in B Minor, BWV 232

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Burlington Baroque & Ensemble L’Harmonie des saisons
Eric Milnes, conductor/continuo
Mélisande Corriveau, continuo

College Street Congregational Church, Burlington VT
FRI SEP 18 2026 7:30 p.m.