BACH - ZELENKA - Ascension Oratorio (BWV 11), Missa Sancti Spiritus (ZWV4)

Soprano - Anna Schote
Alto - Hanna Roos
Tenor - Martin Höhler
Bass - Malte Kebschull
Heinrich-Schütz-Kantorei Freiburg
and its orchestra
Conductor: Cornelius Leenen

Jan Dismas Zelenka's Missa Sancti Spiritus (ZWV 4) and Johann Sebastian Bach's Ascension Oratorio (BWV 11) exemplify two different compositional approaches within the church music of the early 18th century. Both works are festive in nature, but anchored in different liturgical and denominational contexts: Zelenka's mass was composed around 1723 for the Catholic court in Dresden, while Bach's work (1735) was used for a Lutheran Ascension Day service in Leipzig.
Despite stylistic and confessional differences, both composers are united by their deep roots in musical rhetoric and their ability to shape sacred music as an expression of faith and art at the same time.
Both works are rarely found in the concert calendar.

This concert will be repeated by the Heinrich-Schütz-Kantorei on Sunday, May 3rd in the concert series of the Amis de lâEURTMéglise abbatiale dâEUR~Ebersmunster (Abbey Church of Ebersmünster, Alsace).

Executor:

Heinrich-Schütz-Kantorei Freiburg
Anna Schote, soprano
Hanna Roos, alto
Martin Höhler, tenor
Malte Kebschull, bass
and the orchestra of the Heinrich-Schütz-Kantorei

Conductor: Cornelius Leenen