Easter, spring and the love of life – after immersing in the two works juxtaposed in the third concert of the Musica Sacra Series, everyone will see the world in a more beautiful light: Bach’s Cantata No. 34 was initially written for Whitsun in 1724, but the personal yet solemn tone manifesting God’s love inspired the composer to use its music also in his Wedding Cantata. The Schöpfungsmesse (Creation Mass) is Haydn’s one but last grand-scale mass, which he wrote at the end of his life for the Esterházys, when he was already an international celebrity. The piece’s title comes from the fact that it evokes one of the composer’s most successful works: The Creation. The empress even noted that the music made the solemn text too jolly. Haydn's reply was "When I think of my God, my heart dances within me for joy, and then my music has to dance, too.”