On 28th March 2026 at 7:00pm in St Martin’s Church, London Road, Worcester. WR5 2ED, the Elgar Chorale of Worcester will give a concert entitled ‘I was Glad’.
A programme of music by the baroque composers from Heinrich Schütz (1585 – 1672) Henry Purcell (1659 – 1695) Johann Christoph Bach (1642 – 1703), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750) to Georg Frideric Handel (1685 – 1759).
With Purcell’s I Was Glad, Handel’s As Pants the Hart we also sing Bach’s Lobet den Herrn, and such pieces by Johann Christoph Bach’s Unsers Herzens Freude hat ein Enda a 8, and Heinrich Schütz Deutches Magnificat. this concert gives us an idea of what choral music was around in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Heinrich Schütz is the earliest and longest lived of our composers we hear tonight. The musical talent of Heinrich Schütz was noticed when he was 13, Schütz is considered together with Bach one of Germany’s foremost composers of the time. With the Bach family, especially Johann Sebastian, Schütz was part of the German musical tradition.
Johann Christoph Bach was a close relative to J.S. Bach and
The programme will include
Deutches Magnificat. Heinrich Schütz
As Pants the Hart, Frideric Handel
Jehova quam multi sunt hostes mei!, Henry Purcell,
Jesu, Meine Freude, Johann Sebastian Bach
I Was Glad, Henry Purcell
Unsers Herzens Freude hat ein Enda a 8, Johann Christoph Bach
O God Thou art my God, Henry Purcell
Lobet den Herrn, Johann Sebastian Bach
Funeral Sentences, Henry Purcell:
Man that is born,
In the midst of life ,
Thou knowest Lord.
Directed by Piers Maxim
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Programme items and order may be amended.
