Beethoven & Bach with Sheringham and Cromer Choral Society

Sheringham and Cromer Choral Society open their 2025-2026 season in St Peter’s Church Sheringham at 4:00 pm on 15 November 2025 with a magnificent celebration of choral works by Beethoven and Bach.

Composed in 1807, Beethoven’s C Major Mass was commissioned by Prince Nikolaus Esterhazy to commemorate the name day of his wife, Marie von Liechtenstein. Beethoven’s motivation for writing it, then, was less related to his own religious feeling. Because of this, the style of this mass was similar to that of Haydn’s masses.

Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140, also known as Sleepers Awake, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach, regarded as one of his most mature and popular sacred cantatas. He composed the chorale cantata in Leipzig for the 27th Sunday after Trinity and first performed it on 25 November 1731.

The choir together with a small chamber orchestra will be conducted by their Musical Director, David Ballard and joined by four superb soloists: soprano Saskia Edwards-Korolczuk, countertenor Paul-Ethan Bright, tenor Connor Collerton and bass Dhilan Gnanadurai.

Tickets £20 (under 18’s and care-givers free) from box office at Sheringham Little Theatre telephone 01263 822347 or online at www.sheringhamlittletheatre.com.

Also available from Upstairs Downstairs, Church Street Cromer (cash only) and on the door subject to availability.