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Beethoven & Bach with Sheringham and Cromer Choral Society
Part of the Sheringham and Cromer Choral Society 2025 - 2026 Season
Add to my Calendar 15-11-2025 16:00 15-11-2025 18:00 36 Beethoven & Bach with Sheringham and Cromer Choral Society Composed in 1807, the C Major Mass was commissioned by Prince Nikolaus Esterhazy to commemorate the name day of his wife, Marie von Liechtenstein. Beethoven’s motivation for writing it, then, was less related to his own religious feeling. Because of this, the style of this mass was similar to that of Haydn’s masses. Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140, also known as Sleepers Awake, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach, regarded as one of his most mature and popular sacred cantatas. He composed the chorale cantata in Leipzig for the 27th Sunday after Trinity and first performed it on 25 November 1731. St Peter's Church, Sheringham DD/MM/YYYYDetails
St Peter's Church
Church Street
Sheringham
Norfolk
NR26 8QS
England
Programme
Johann Sebastian Bach – Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (cantata), BWV 140
Ludwig van Beethoven – Mass in C major, Op.86
Performers
Saskia Edwards-Korolczuk – soprano
Connor Collerton – tenor
Dhilan Gnanadurai – baritone
David Ballard – Conductor
Paul-Ethan Bright – countertenor
Sheringham and Cromer Chamber Orchestra
Sheringham and Cromer Choral Society
Programme Note
Composed in 1807, the C Major Mass was commissioned by Prince Nikolaus Esterhazy to commemorate the name day of his wife, Marie von Liechtenstein. Beethoven’s motivation for writing it, then, was less related to his own religious feeling. Because of this, the style of this mass was similar to that of Haydn’s masses.
Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140, also known as Sleepers Awake, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach, regarded as one of his most mature and popular sacred cantatas. He composed the chorale cantata in Leipzig for the 27th Sunday after Trinity and first performed it on 25 November 1731.
