Irish Baroque Orchestra

Dietrich Buxtehude

Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele (Bux WV 71)

Georg Melchior Hoffmann/Johann Sebastian Bach

Meine Seele rühmt und preist (BWV 189)

Dietrich Buxtehude 

Quemadmodum Desiderat Cervus (Bux WV 92)

Johann Sebastian Bach

Ich Armer Mensch, Ich Sündenknecht (BWV 55)

The programme will also include instrumental works by Georg Muffat and Johann Sebastian Bach

Conductor, organist, harpsichordist and scholar John Butt has been music director of Edinburgh’s Dunedin Consort since 2003 as well as a guest conductor with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, The English Concert, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, among others. In the 2022/23 season John Butt will makes his Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra debut conducting Bach’s St Matthew Passion. In Kilkenny he is joined by Hugo Hymas, a celebrated young English tenor who has recently taken part in tours across Europe, USA and Asia, and also to Australia to perform the tenor solos in Purcell's King Arthur with the Gabrieli Consort. 

This event is in receipt of the RTE Supporting the Arts initiative.