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Following a highly acclaimed debut at last year’s festival, we are pleased to present our Kaffeehaus concert again this year. Join us in a relaxed café setting as we regale you with a complete performance of Bach’s Hunt Cantata, including the famous aria “Sheep may safely graze,” together with movements from Brandenburg Concerto No. 1. We are also looking forward to presenting guest soloist Yeree Suh, the noted soprano now established in Stuttgart, in her Toronto Bach Festival debut. The spacious acoustic of the Church of the Holy Trinity (by the CF Toronto Eaton Centre) will provide an excellent location for our recreation of Zimmermann’s Leipzig coffee house, and the beloved Canadian actor R.H. Thomson will once again preside as Herr Zimmermann.

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Kaffeehaus

Church of the Holy Trinity, Toronto

When Bach arrived in Leipzig in late May of 1723 he came prepared to show the city what he could do as the director of music. The high point of the 2023 festival will be a celebration of the first cantatas that Bach performed in the principal churches of the city in the weeks after his arrival. As these works amply demonstrate, it was an auspicious beginning to a period of extraordinary creative output which saw the composition of over 100 cantatas in the course of the next  four years. Join us as we celebrate this turning point in Bach’s life with some of his greatest cantata creations - not to be missed!

Soprano

Ellen McAteer

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May 25, 2024

Kaffeehaus · Toronto Bach Festival

May 28, 2023

Leipzig Cantatas · Toronto Bach Festival

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