Bach As Artist Or Preacher

In this lecture-recital, renowned performer and academic John Butt examines the role of J.S. Bach as a church composer, with a particular focus on emotion and meaning in two of his sacred cantatas.

John Butt is Gardener Professor of Music at Glasgow University and Music Director of Edinburgh's Dunedin Consort. He has published widely in the field of Bach, 17th-and 18th-century music, the culture of historically informed performance, and musical modernity. He has a large discography as both organist/harpsichordist/ clavichordist and conductor. His recording of Handel's Messiah received a Gramophone award in 2007.

The lecture will be followed by a performance of the cantatas discussed: BWV 21, ‘Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis’