Performer: University of Auckland Chamber Choir

Stephen Layton returns to Auckland to continue his series of Bach's choral masterpieces with the APO. 

...it was the Bach pieces that were the undoubted highlights, particularly the radiant contribution of Sara Macliver.

Stephen Layton leads the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra in a thrillingly dramatic account of Bach's masterpiece. 

The Mass in B minor was completed in 1749, the year before Bach’s death. Much of the work consists of music Bach composed much earlier in his life (the Kyrie and Gloria from one of the Lutheran Masses). The sections he added latter were among the last things he wrote before he died.