24.09.2026 20:00
Orfeo Orchestra and the Purcell Choir
Eger, Egri Bazilika
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Prices
7 900 HUF
Tickets can be purchased at the Gárdonyi Géza Theatre box office (Hatvani Kapu Sq. 4, Eger; +36 36 518 347; szervezes@gardonyiszinhaz.hu), at the venue before the concert, and online at www.jegymester.hu.
We offer a 10% discount for students and pensioners.
Filharmonia Hungary season ticket holders can purchase tickets with a 20% discount by showing their season tickets! The discount applies to one ticket per subscription, per concert.
The individual discounts cannot be combined.
We reserve the right to change the programmes, dates, venues, and performances, and ticket prices may change accordingly.
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Season Ticket
22 400 Ft
Subscriptions can be purchased at the Gárdonyi Géza Theatre box office (Hatvani Kapu Sq. 4, Eger; +36 46 518 347; szervezes@gardonyiszinhaz.hu), as well as online at jegymester.hu.
Purchase a new subscription by 24 september 2026, valid until the first concert.
Individual tickets will be available starting 24 august 2026.
Filharmonia Hungary season ticket holders can purchase tickets with a 20% discount by showing their season tickets! The discount applies to one ticket per subscription, per concert.
We reserve the right to change the programmes, dates, venues, and performances,
and ticket prices may change accordingly.
Ticket office nearby
LIGHT AND DEVOTION
With its brilliance and dramatic power, Mass in B minor not only fills the space but also offers an uplifting and deeply moving musical experience, opening a world that transcends eras, styles, and denominational boundaries and speaking directly to the human soul.
This evening, admirers of early music and Bach will have the opportunity to experience one of the most monumental and extraordinary sacred works in music history: Bach's Mass in B minor. Although Bach remained a devoted Lutheran throughout his life, the work is set in Latin. Moreover, since the complete Ordinary belongs primarily to the Catholic liturgy, the Mass was most likely not intended for practical liturgical use. Rather, it may be regarded as a summation of the composer's life's work, a universal profession of faith on which Bach continued to labor until the end of his life, driven by inner conviction. The complete Mass was first performed in 1859, more than a century after Bach's death.
Today, the work is admired for its remarkable dramatic arc and structural unity. However, it was not conceived as a single, unified composition. It brings together movements written over a period of some twenty-five years, combining revised earlier works with newly composed sections. The manuscript is divided into four major parts without an overall title; the name Mass in B minor was given to it only by later generations. One of the most poignant aspects of its creation is that, by the end of his life, Bach was suffering from severe vision problems and assembled the final version of the Mass, as well as parts of it, virtually blind or with greatly impaired eyesight—a decline faithfully reflected in the manuscript itself.
The individual movements display extraordinary richness: monumental choruses alternate with virtuosic arias and intimate, chamber-like passages. The performing forces are equally varied: most choruses are written in four or five parts; the Sanctus requires six voices; and the concluding section calls for two separate four-part choirs. Yet thanks to Bach's masterful craftsmanship, the work possesses an exceptional sense of unity.
Experience this supreme Baroque masterpiece, a work whose complexity and beauty inspired both Mozart and Beethoven.
The concert is presented in cooperation with the Haydneum – Hungarian Center for Early Music and the Orfeo Music Foundation of Sysart Ltd. Haydneum is supported by the Prime Minister's Office of Hungary and by the Bethlen Gábor Fund Management Ltd.
ARTISTS:
Orfeo Orchestra
Purcell Choir
Katalin Szutrély - soprano
Ágnes Pintér - soprano
Alexandre Chance - countertenor
Zoltán Megyesi - tenor
Ákos Borka - bariton
Zoltán Melkovics - bass
György Vashegyi - conductor
PROGRAMME:
Orfeo Orchestra
Purcell Choir
Katalin Szutrély - soprano
Ágnes Pintér - soprano
Alexandre Chance - countertenor
Zoltán Megyesi - tenor
Ákos Borka - bariton
Zoltán Melkovics - bass
György Vashegyi - conductor
PROGRAMME:
Johann Sebastian Bach: Mass in b-minor, BWV 232
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