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Bach and Handel meet in Leipzig: Good Friday 1747 | Salvat Beca & Bachcelona Consort · MarchVivo
Although Johann Sebastian Bach and Georg Friedrich Handel never met in person, Bach was thoroughly familiar with Handel's music and occasionally drew upon it for his own purposes as Thomaskantor. This concert offers a recreation of an exceptional event: the dialogue between Bach's work and the arias taken from the Brockes Passion that he inserted into the performance of his St. Mark Passion—now lost—on Good Friday 1747 in Leipzig. The Bach fragments, linked to Easter, are interspersed with recit