Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach, Heinrich Schütz, Nikolaus Decius, Johann Hermann Schein, Michel Praetorius, Johann Walter, Johann Hermann Schein
Performer: Leo van Doeselaar, Choir of the Netherlands Bach Society
Conductor: Jos van Veldhoven
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Channel Classics
Catalogue: CCS 13498
Release: 2022
Size: 276 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Bach: Prelude and Fugue in E-Flat Major, BWV 552
01. I. Praeludium
02. anon.: Kyrie, Gott Vater in Ewigkeit
Schütz: 12 Geistliche Gesänge, Op. 13
03. No. 1. Kyrie, Gott Vater in Ewigkeit, SWV 420, “super Missam Fons bonitatis”
Bach: Chorale Preludes from “Clavier-Übung III”, BWV 669-689
04. I. Kyrie, Gott Vater in Ewigkeit, BWV 669
05. II. Christe, aller Welt Trost, BWV 670
06. III. Kyrie, Gott heiliger Geist, BWV 671
07. Decius: Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr
08. Schein: Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr
Bach: Chorale Preludes from “Clavier-Übung III”, BWV 669-689
09. VIII. Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr, BWV 676
10. anon.: Dies sind die heilgen zehn Gebot
11. Praetorius: Dies sind die heilgen zehn Gebot
Bach: Chorale Preludes from “Clavier-Übung III”, BWV 669-689
12. X. Dies sind die heilgen zehn Gebot, BWV 678
13. Walter: Wir glauben all an einen Gott
14. Schein: Wir gläuben all’ an einen Gott
Bach: Chorale Preludes from “Clavier-Übung III”, BWV 669-689
15. XII. Wir glauben all an einen Gott, BWV 680
Several years after his appointment in 1723 as cantor of the St Thomaskirche, Johann Sebastian Bach started work on a major collection of keyboard works under the collective name of ‘Clavier-Übung’. This collection was already published in several instalments during the 18th century, and it would ultimately grow into a standard work for every keyboard player, one which contains the essence of Bach’s keyboard artistry. In the extensive third section of the Clavier-Übung, the organ is of central importance. In addition to an imposing prelude and fugue, Bach composed 21 so- called chorale preludes for organ for this collection. Every one of them is a masterpiece, in which Bach makes use of complex polyphony, invertible counterpoint, and canonic techniques. Bach also employs a very wide range of musical styles. The chorales which Bach used were common musical property in his day, recognizable, so to speak, for any listener. Today, since this is no longer the case, the Netherlands Bach Foundation is of the opinion that it is advisable to make them available as an addition to a complete recording of the so called ‘organ mass’. The choir of the Netherlands Bach Society, conducted by Jos van Veldhoven, performs the chorales in harmonizations composed by Bach himself, but also by his predecessors including Praetorius, Hassler, Schein, and Scheidt.