Bristol Bach Choir

In Northern Lights on 21st June 2025 Bristol Bach Choir will present a programme showing some of the richly varied choral works which come from the Baltic States and associated schools of composition. Both secular and sacred music will feature, and the concert will be an exciting dip into this vast sea of music.

The emphasis will be on contemporary composers, with names such as Pärt, Gjeilo, Ešenvalds, Miskinis and Dubra, and will highlight that, whilst there are certain qualities which seem to identify this music’s geographical origin, they are nevertheless hugely varied in sound and style. This sumptuous variety includes Holy Minimalism and some very spare, haunting writing, through to the dense multi-choir pieces which truly deserve the term ‘choral orchestration’. Both secular and sacred music will feature, and the concert will be an exciting dip into this vast sea of music.