JS Bach - Sacred Songs
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Label: Challenge Classics
Cat No: CC72967
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 24th November 2023
Contents
Works
Ach, dass nicht die letze Stunde BWV439Auf, auf! die rechte Zeit ist hier, BWV440
Beschrankt, ihr Weisen dieser Welt, BWV443
Canzona in D minor, BWV588
Chorale Prelude BWV683 'Vater unser im Himmelreich'
Chorale Prelude BWV691 'Wer nun den lieben Gott lasst walten'
Chorale Prelude BWV1092 'Herr Gott, nun schleuss den Himmel auf'
Chorale Prelude BWV1095 'O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig'
Dich bet ich an, mein hochster Gott, BWV449
Dir, dir Jehovah, will ich singen, BWV452
Eins ist Not! ach Herr, dies Eine, BWV453
Gib dich zufrieden und sei stille, BWV511
Gott, wie gross ist deine Gute, BWV462
Ich halte treulich still und liebe, BWV466
Ich liebe Jesum alle Stund', BWV468
Ich steh an deiner Krippen hier, BWV469
Jesu, Jesu, du bist mein, BWV470
Jesu, deine Liebeswunden, BWV471
Komm, susser Tod, BWV478
Kommt, Seelen, dieser Tag, BWV479
Kommt wieder aus der finstern Gruft, BWV480
Liebster Herr Jesu! wo bleibest du so lange?, BWV484
Mein Jesu! was fur Seelenweh, BWV487
O finstre Nacht, wann wirst du doch vergehen, BWV492
O liebe Selle, zieh' die Sinnen, BWV494
Pastorale in F major, BWV590
Selig, wer an Jesum denkt, BWV498
So wunsch ich mir zu guter Letzt, BWV502
Vergiss mein nicht, BWV505
Artists
Klaus Mertens (bass)Ton Koopman (organ)
Works
Ach, dass nicht die letze Stunde BWV439Auf, auf! die rechte Zeit ist hier, BWV440
Beschrankt, ihr Weisen dieser Welt, BWV443
Canzona in D minor, BWV588
Chorale Prelude BWV683 'Vater unser im Himmelreich'
Chorale Prelude BWV691 'Wer nun den lieben Gott lasst walten'
Chorale Prelude BWV1092 'Herr Gott, nun schleuss den Himmel auf'
Chorale Prelude BWV1095 'O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig'
Dich bet ich an, mein hochster Gott, BWV449
Dir, dir Jehovah, will ich singen, BWV452
Eins ist Not! ach Herr, dies Eine, BWV453
Gib dich zufrieden und sei stille, BWV511
Gott, wie gross ist deine Gute, BWV462
Ich halte treulich still und liebe, BWV466
Ich liebe Jesum alle Stund', BWV468
Ich steh an deiner Krippen hier, BWV469
Jesu, Jesu, du bist mein, BWV470
Jesu, deine Liebeswunden, BWV471
Komm, susser Tod, BWV478
Kommt, Seelen, dieser Tag, BWV479
Kommt wieder aus der finstern Gruft, BWV480
Liebster Herr Jesu! wo bleibest du so lange?, BWV484
Mein Jesu! was fur Seelenweh, BWV487
O finstre Nacht, wann wirst du doch vergehen, BWV492
O liebe Selle, zieh' die Sinnen, BWV494
Pastorale in F major, BWV590
Selig, wer an Jesum denkt, BWV498
So wunsch ich mir zu guter Letzt, BWV502
Vergiss mein nicht, BWV505
Artists
Klaus Mertens (bass)Ton Koopman (organ)
About
Only from the mid-1730s does Bach seem to be concerned with composing songs to contemporary lyrics. We find such a small series especially in the second keyboard booklet for Anna Magdalena Bach. He and his wife composed some "new songs" that certainly enriched everyday life in the family, such as making music together in the evening or prayers at home with their children. Among these six songs, there are especially those whose lyrics provide comfort.
The songs of the musical hymnbook have been given their title "Schemelli-Lieder" after the editor Georg Christian Schemelli (around 1680-1762). Schemelli is certainly responsible for the main selection of 954 songs and thus also for the selection of Bach settings to music.
The publication was titled Musicalisches Gesang-Buch (Musical Hymnbook) and contains 954 "witty, both old and new songs and arias, with well-set melodies, in discant and bass". In the preface of 24 April 1736, the Naumburg superintendent Friedrich Schulze wrote the following:
"The melodies contained in this Musicalisches Gesang-Buch are by Johann Sebastian Bach, Master of the Chapel Choir and Choir Conductor. Musicians in Leipzig, partly composed completely new, partly also improved by him in the basso continuo."
Of 69 songs with (mostly) figured bass, 21 are hymnologically detectable for the first time in this printing. Exactly these 21 songs were therefore taken as the basis for the selection here from the Musicalisches Gesang-Buch in addition to the mentioned small selection from the second book of sheet music of Anna Magdalena Bach.
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