Sunday 4 June 2000   7:30 pm

Biber: Missa Salisburgensis 1682

  • Members of Psalmody, Gradualia, Colchester Bach Choir
  • Ravenscroft Cornett and Sackbut Consort
  • Essex Baroque Orchestra
  • conducted by Peter Holman

A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to hear the legendary 53-part mass, probably the largest-scale piece written before the nineteenth century.  Seventy-five performers in eight choirs, including sixteen solo singers, ten trumpets and timpani, two seven-part string groups, and players of oboes, recorders, cornetts, trombones and organs.