Masterwork: Easter and Ascension Oratorios
Resplendent. Festive. Ascendent.
The 2022 Charlotte Bach Festival concludes with two of Bach’s most resplendent and festive works.
Friday, June 17 • 7:30 pm
First Baptist Church
501 W. 5th St.
Winston-Salem, NC
General Admission: $25
+ fees and taxes
Students are free with ID
Saturday, June 18 • 7:30 pm
Sandra Levine Theatre
Sarah Belk Gambrell Center for the Arts and Civic Engagement at Queens University of Charlotte
2319 Wellesley • Charlotte, NC
General Reserved Admision: $40 + fees and taxes
Premium Reserved Admission: $60 + fees and taxes
Students are free with ID
The Program
Bach Akademie Cantata Choir and Orchestra
2022 CBF Vocal Fellows
Scott Allen Jarrett conducting
Johann Sebastian BACH Easter Oratorio (“Kommt, eilet und laufet”), BWV 249
George Frideric HANDEL Zadok the Priest (Coronation Anthem No. 1), HWV258
Johann Sebastian BACH Ascension Oratorio (“Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen”), BWV 11
The 2022 Charlotte Bach Festival concludes with two of Bach’s most resplendent and festive works — the Easter and Ascension Oratorios. The Bach Akademie Orchestra expands to its fullest number, including baroque trumpets and timpani.
Just as Handel’s Dixit Dominus lit the spark for the festival’s opening, his brilliant Zadok the Priest (performed at every English coronation since 1727!) crowns our final performances alongside Bach’s masterpieces. Bach Akademie of Charlotte is thrilled to partner with First Baptist Church, Winston-Salem, and Queens University, in their magnificently renovated Levine Theatre, for these final performances.
From the Exaltation of the cross discovered in the St John Passion (Bach Experiences I-III), to the Glory of the Easter Oratorio’s empty tomb and the Ascension Oratorio’s Majesty of the celestial throne, Bach’s music rejoices in Love’s triumph. And, as way leads unto way, so too our promise of renewal: raised like him, like him we rise – ours the cross, the grave, the skies.
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