Tickets are available for concerts in advance from White Rose Books, Thirsk, or from choir members. Any tickets left will be available at the door.
Concerts for 2025
Concerts generally take place at St Oswald's Church, Sowerby, unless specified otherwise.
St Luke Passion
attributed to J.S. Bach, arranged by J. Michael Diack
7:30 pm Saturday 12th April 2025
According to J. S. Bach’s son, C. P. E. Bach, Bach wrote five Passions, but it is now agreed that only two - the St Matthew and the St John – were definitely composed by him. The manuscript of this St Luke Passion exists in J.S. Bach’s handwriting and contemporary records state that he performed it in 1730 in Leipzig and on subsequent occasions, but it is doubtful that he was the composer.
The version of the St Luke Passion The Mowbray Singers and Strings Attached are performing is a selection of movements made by J. Michael Diack and A. Hastings Kelk and published in 1926. This selection presents a continuous narrative of the Passion story and includes some fine and dramatic choruses together with tuneful and expressive recitatives. In addition, to conclude our performance, we are adding the final chorus from Bach’s St John Passion.
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Summer concert
7:30 pm Saturday 12th July 2025
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Autumn concert
7:30 pm Saturday 22nd November 2025
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Christmas concert
8:00 pm Tuesday 16th December 2025
at Sowerby Methodist Church
You can also find our concerts listed in
the North Yorkshire Music & Arts Events Diary at www.st-cecilia.org.uk