Our next Concert - With Heartfelt Joy
Saturday 12th July 2025 7.30 pm
Douai Abbey, Upper Woolhampton, RG7 5TQ
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Experience a powerful evening of music spanning centuries in the stunning surroundings of Douai Abbey.
Reading Bach Choir joins forces with Concerts in Caversham to present a bold and moving programme featuring Caroline Shaw’s To the Hands, a haunting response to modern-day displacement inspired by Buxtehude’s moving cantata cycle Membra Jesu Nostri, and her evocative string piece Entr’acte. Telemann’s lyrical Viola Concerto brings Baroque elegance and charm, performed by the CinC ensemble with soloist Wenhan Jiang from the RPO, while Bach’s gripping Easter cantata Christ lag in Todes Banden, BWV 4, offers a dramatic and uplifting finale.
From the raw intimacy of contemporary choral textures to the triumphant joy of Baroque celebration, this concert promises a unique and emotionally rich journey through time.
Tickets are £18 (under 18s £5) available here and on the door.
We are recruiting
This accomplished choir performs a wide range of choral music, ancient and modern, with a particular focus on challenging and rewarding new music. Recent concerts have included works by Caroline Shaw, Reena Esmail, Margaret Bonds and Saunder Choi as well as more familiar composers such as Byrd, Tomkins, Vaughan Williams and of course J.S. Bach. We recently performed an exhilerating UK premier of Kile Smith's The Arc in the Sky.
We are looking for new members with a high standard of singing and musicianship who are interested in challenging themselves musically in a friendly and aspirational environment, led by our Music Director Daniel Mahoney. If that sounds like you, please come and join us for a few rehearsals to try us out. If you enjoy the experience and want to stay with us, we will arrange a short audition.
We rehearse on Tuesdays at 7.30pm in St Andrews Church, Caversham RG4 7PL.
If you are interested, please contact: membership@readingbachchoir.org.uk or go to the 'Sing with Us' tab at the top of this page and select 'Join the Choir' and 'FAQs'.
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