JS Bach - Christ lag in Todesbanden
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Label: EPR Classic
Cat No: EPRC0031
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 12th July 2019
Contents
Works
Ich danke dir, GottDie Furcht des Herren
Lieber Herr Gott, wecke uns auf
Christ lag in Todesbanden
Passacaglia in D minor, BuxWV161
Artists
Kristien Nijs (soprano)Amaryllis Dieltiens (soprano)
Clint van der Linde (countertenor)
Sean Clayton (tenor)
Tiemo Wang (bass)
Dimos de Beun (organ)
Bach Plus
Conductor
Bart NaessensWorks
Ich danke dir, GottDie Furcht des Herren
Lieber Herr Gott, wecke uns auf
Christ lag in Todesbanden
Passacaglia in D minor, BuxWV161
Artists
Kristien Nijs (soprano)Amaryllis Dieltiens (soprano)
Clint van der Linde (countertenor)
Sean Clayton (tenor)
Tiemo Wang (bass)
Dimos de Beun (organ)
Bach Plus
Conductor
Bart NaessensAbout
Our fetishist regard for John Sebastian Bach as the pinnacle of Western art music obscures the fact that his talent was spawned by at least three generations of gifted predecessors. We celebrate this lineage by exploring the musical family archive Bach discovered in 1735. Among the hidden gems are intensely moving Geistliche Konzerte by his cousin Johann Christoph Bach, and the latter’s father Heinrich Bach. In his earliest preserved cantata Christ lag in Todesbanden, Johann Sebastian superbly imitates the polyphonic motet style of these foregoers, which was going out of fashion, though Bach seems to have cherished it enough to revisit the cantata on several occasions in later years. The Belgian ensemble BachPlus brings homage to Bach’s undying love of a dying art, in a recording which juxtaposes private devotion with protestant ecstasy.
BachPlus is a project which was founded in 2010 by soprano Elisabeth Hermans and keyboard player/conductor Bart Naessens. The core business of the project is focussed on the monthly organisation of a Bach cantata concert (BachPlus Cantata Series) in the Baroque Jesuit church of Aalst (Belgium) and the impressive historic St Bavo church in Aardenburg (Netherlands). In addition to these monthly performances of Bach cantatas the ensemble organises each year a bigger concert around a big composition of master JS Bach (Magnificat, BWV243, B minor Mass, BWV232, Weihnachts-Oratorium, BWV248...).
Recently, the ensemble enlarged its activities and became one of Belgium’s leading Baroque ensembles, specialised in the performance of Baroque music. The ensemble BachPlus unites musicians from across Europe that built their vital and valuable experience of historical performance practice during playing at several renowned ensembles and/or through their own activities and initiatives.
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