50th Anniversary Concert

2025 is Keele Bach Choir’s 50th anniversary year and we've got some great music lined up to celebrate this exciting event. For our March concert, we’re delighted to welcome professional soloists and orchestra who’ll be accompanying the choir in Handel’s Dixit Dominus and Zadok the Priest, plus J.S.Bach’s O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht and Magnificat. Zadok needs no introduction and the powerful entry of the choir is always good value. Dixit Dominus is perhaps not so well known, but this early Handel work doesn’t disappoint: expect bravura choral set-pieces interspersed with gloriously tuneful solos and duets. And then we have some glorious Bach. The relatively little performed funeral chorale O Jesu Christ features an unusual and sonorous brass accompaniment, complementing the unmistakable Bach signature: the dignity, the grace, the tunefulness, the intensity, the humanity. With Magnificat, based on the Virgin Mary’s words during a visitation to her cousin Elizabeth, Bach regales us with glorious choral movements, varied solos and duets, deeply felt emotion and razor-sharp intelligence. The rolling entries as the choir sing the Gloria are just wonderful. And there are so many other superb moments. Do come and hear: this concert will be a feast for the ears and food for the soul.

Booking available four weeks before the concert.