The 2023 Winter Solstice concerts feature two major works by Johann Sebastian Bach, as well as motets and choral settings by Cherubini, Gibbons, F.J. Haydn, Holst, Liszt, Reichardt and Victoria. Artistic Director Franz Vote leads members of the New Mexico Bach Society and Orchestra in this beautiful program of music for the holiday season:

J. S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 BWV 1049 and Mass in A BWV 234

Veni Jesu Luigi Cherubini

Magnificat Orlando Gibbons

Ave Maria  Franz Joseph Haydn

In the bleak mid-winter Gustav Holst

Ave verum corpus Franz Liszt 

Heilige Nacht Johann Friedrich Reichardt

O Magnum Mysterium Tomas Luis de Victoria