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The story of the hero’s descent into the underworld to rescue his wife Euridice has inspired countless retellings, but few can contain music as starkly beautiful and intensely dramatic as Gluck’s masterpiece, with the chorus to the fore as an integral part of the action. It also contains perhaps his most famous music, the dances of the blessed spirits and of the furies, presented here. It is framed by sacred music that is no less dramatic; Bach’s choral and orchestral tableau obsesses over mankind’s fight with the devil, with tempestuous military-style choruses and a whiplash ferocity in its arias. His mass setting borrows from this, and other sacred cantatas.
Cantata BWV40 ‘Dazu ist ershienen der Sohn Gottes’
Act 2, from Orfeo ed Euridice
Ballo ultimo from Act 3 of Orfeo ed Euridice
Lutheran Mass BWV233 in F major
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Saffron Hall is an award-winning concert hall uniquely located on the campus of Saffron Walden County High School. Built with the generous support of the Yellow Car Charitable Trust, Saffron Hall has become a vibrant, pioneering model of community cultural provision and arts education since its opening in November 2013.
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