Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Zvi Emanuel-Marial, Sebastian Breuninger, Avigail Bushakevitz, Cornelia Dill, Marijn Seiffert, Lir Vaginsky, Guy Ben-Ziony, Ernst-Martin Schmidt, Viola Bayer, Pablo Santa Cruz, Shalev Ad-El, Michaela Kuntz, Alicia Marial, Mariluz Gimenez Cabanes, Peter Michel
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Haenssler
Catalogue: HC21028
Release: 2021
Size: 248 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Bach: St Matthew Passion, BWV244
01. No. 39, Erbarme dich, mein Gott
Bach: St John Passion, BWV245
02. No. 7, Von den Stricken meiner Sünden
Bach: Weihnachtsoratorium, BWV 248 (Excerpts)
03. No. 4, Bereite dich, Zion, mit zärtlichen Trieben
04. No. 31, Schließe, mein Herze, dies selige Wunder
Bach: Mass in B minor, BWV232 (excerpts)
05. Ij. Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris
06. IVd. Agnus Dei
Bach: Geist und Seele wird verwirret, BWV 35, Pt. 1
07. I. Sinfonia in D Minor
08. II. Geist und Seele wird verwirret
09. III. Ich wundre mich
10. IV. Gott hat alles wohlgemacht!
Bach: Geist und Seele wird verwirret, BWV 35, Pt. 2
11. V. Sinfonia in D Minor
12. VI. Ach, starker Gott, laß mich
13. VII. Ich wünsche nur bei Gott zu leben
When Johann Sebastian Bach assumed the position of Thomaskantor in Leipzig in 1723, he did so having previously affirmed to the City authorities by contractual guarantee that the music he was to compose for divine service in the pious mercantile city would not sound operatic. Another of the unalterable customs in Leipzig was that the high voice parts in church music should not be sung by women, a widely applied consequence drawn from the counsel of the Apostle Paul. [“Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak” (1 Corinthians 14:34, KJV)] This album is the proof that Bach set his sacred works to music whose emotional and dramatic force stood comparison with the best operatic music of his day.