Aberdeen Bach Choir - St Matthew Passion by J S Bach

Aberdeen Bach Choir was founded as the Aberdeen Bach Society by Charles Stanford Terry in 1913 and reconstituted as Aberdeen Bach Choir in 1956. The choir usually performs two main concerts a year, at least one of which normally features a work by J. S. Bach. The repertoire of the choir is comprehensive and varied featuring music from Medieval times to the present day. Aberdeen Bach Choir is a mixed voice choir of approximately one hundred singers.

This performance of the St. Matthew Passion will be one hundred years, almost to the day, since the work's first performance in Aberdeen, also in St Machar's Cathedral, in April 1912. It will be sung in its original German.

The performance will be given in two parts - the first part starting at 3pm and the second part starting at 6pm.