Halifax Chamber Choir’s next concert ‘Best of Baroque’ including sacred choral music by Tomas Luis de Victoria, Francesco Durante and Johann Sebastian Bach, is on Saturday 29th March at Holy Trinity & St. Jude’s Church in Halifax.

The programme spans 250 years of European sacred music. Beginning in France with motets by the French Renaissance composer Jean L’Heritier, the programme then covers Germany, Spain and Italy with motets by Baroque composers, Heinrich Schutz and J.S. Bach in the North, and Tomas Luis de Victoria, and Franceso Durante in the South.

The two principal works in the programme are J.S. Bach’s motets ‘Jesu Meine Freude’ and Durante’s ‘Magnificat’, sometimes thought to have been the work of Durante’s teacher in Naples, Giovanni Pergolesi.

The choir is directed by Aljoša "Josh" Škorja, a Slovenian conductor and musicologist, winner of the London Classical Soloists' 2015 Conducting Competition and accompanied on chamber organ by Professor David Baker, Director of the Halifax Organ Academy.

Admission is £12.00 at the door, including programme, or by ticket in advance purchased by visiting the website linked below.

Holy Trinity & St. Jude's Church

Savile Park, Halifax HX1 2XE

Saturday 29 March 19:30