Burlington Baroque Festival - Bach: The Mass in b minor
Fri, Sep 18
|College Street Congregational Church
Johann Sebastian Bach assembled the monumental B minor Mass in the last years of his life, a compendium of some of his greatest works from across the length of his storied career.
Time & Location
Sep 18, 2026, 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM
College Street Congregational Church, 265 College St, Burlington, VT 05401, USA
About the event
2. BACH: The Mass in B minor
Friday, September 18, 7:30 p.m.
Pre-concert Showcase: 6:45 p.m.
Members of the baroque orchestra talk about and demonstrate their period instruments.
Johann Sebastian Bach assembled the monumental B minor Mass in the last years of his life, a compendium of some of his greatest works from across the length of his storied career. He viewed it as a summation of his life's work in sacred music, and had it bound in a volume that would lay ignored for decades. Without question one of the greatest masterworks in all of Western Music, the variety of styles, rhetorical flourishes and magnificent orchestrations expand a simple Mass Text into a tour de force baroque composition, never to be rivaled. To hear it with period instruments and a suitably small vocal ensemble is to hear it (unlike most modern performances) as Bach conceived it, an opportunity not…