fri05dec6:00 pmfri7:45 pmGrafton UnderwoodA Candlelight Concert for Advent6:00 pm - 7:45 pm
5 December 2025 6:00 pm - 7:45 pm
St James the Apostle Church, Grafton Underwood, Northamptonshire, NN14 3AA
JS Bach and his circle An atmospheric Advent candlelight concert. Hauntingly beautiful, reflective music for the season before Christmas, performed in the lovely
JS Bach and his circle
An atmospheric Advent candlelight concert.
Hauntingly beautiful, reflective music for the season before Christmas, performed in the lovely late 13th-century church at Grafton Underwood, a place noted for its stunning new Thomas Denny stained glass windows.
Beautiful 18th-century music for baroque oboe and trumpet with voices and organ, including chorale preludes by the great JS Bach, as well as music by his contemporary Georg Kauffmann (Bach’s rival for the post of Kapellmeister in Leipzig) and his pupils Ludwig Krebs and Gottfried Homilius.
Do join us for this special evening.
Mince pies…
including:
JS Bach Chorale prelude on ‘Wachet auf’
G Homilius Chorale prelude on ‘Nun freut euch’
G Kauffmann Chorale prelude on ‘Gelobet seist Du’
Krebs Chorale prelude on ‘Nun freut euch’.
JS Bach ‘Jesu joy of man’s desiring’
Gail Hennessy baroque oboe
Tamsin Cowell baroque trumpet
Singers from the Fiori Musicali Choir
Penelope Rapson director/chamber organ
This concert is supported by Mrs Mary Laing