Utwory na płycie:

• Christ lag in Todesbanden, BWV 4 - Versus 4
• Christ lag in Todesbanden, BWV 4 - Versus 5
• Christ lag in Todesbanden, BWV 4 - Versus 6
• Christ lag in Todesbanden, BWV 4 - Versus 7
• Ich danke dir, Gott
• Passacaglia in d-moll, BuxVW 161
• Die Furcht des Herren
• Lieber Herr Gott, wekke uns auf
• Christ lag in Todesbanden
• Christ lag in Todesbanden, BWV 4 - Sinfonia
• Christ lag in Todesbanden, BWV 4 - Versus 1
• Christ lag in Todesbanden, BWV 4 - Versus 2
• Christ lag in Todesbanden, BWV 4 - Versus 3

Heinrich Bach:
Ich danke dir, Gott

Dietrich Buxtehude:
Passacaglia in d-moll

Johann Christoph Bach:
Die Furcht des Herren
Lieber Herr Gott

Georg Bohm:
Christ lag in Todesbanden

JS Bach:
Cantata BWV 4 - Christ lag in Todesbanden

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 Bachcantata-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 J.S. Bach (Magnificat (BWV 243), B minor Mass (BWV 232), Weihnachts-Oratorium (BWV 248)... )

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Recorded at Luca School of Arts, Campus Leuven, Belgium from September 4-6, 2018.