Bach: Mass in B Minor
Soprano: Anna Devin
Alto: Katie Bray
Tenor: Nick Pritchard
Bass: Dingle Yandell
with The Purcell Orchestra
Kingston Choral Society
Conductor: Andrew Griffiths
Kingston Choral Society is thrilled to return to Cadogan Hall, alongside a superb quartet of soloists and the period instruments of The Purcell Orchestra, to perform perhaps the greatest piece of choral music ever written: J.S. Bach’s mighty Mass in B Minor. Intended as compendium of everything that Bach had achieved in his lifetime, it contains music of every kind: majestic, overwhelming choruses, magnificent fugues, and arias of heart-rending beauty.
Anna Devin has performed on some of the world’s great stages, including The Royal Opera House, La Scala Milan, Teatro Reale Madrid, the BBC Proms and Carnegie Hall.
Katie Bray sings regularly for Opera North, English National Opera and English Touring Opera, and makes her debut with Welsh National Opera this season.
Nick Pritchard was makes his Royal Opera House debut this season in Monteverdi’s The Return of Ulysses, and has sung for Opera North, Opera Holland Park, English Touring Opera and the Aldeburgh Festival.
Dingle Yandell makes his debut with Scottish Opera this season, and has sung for Garsington, Bach Collegium Japan, Arcangelo, Gabrieli Consort, Early Opera Company. He is currently an Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment ‘Rising Star’.
