Pieter-Jan Belder, Musica Amphion, Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam - Bach in context: Jesu meine Freude (2013)
dBpoweramp | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 383 Mb | Total time: 72:46 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Et'cetera | # KTC 1440 | Recorded: 2012
dBpoweramp | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 383 Mb | Total time: 72:46 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Et'cetera | # KTC 1440 | Recorded: 2012
The Prelude and Fugue in E Minor forms a frame, as it did in Bach’s time, around this program, designed to fit the liturgical format that gave Bach’s music its purpose; the Fantasia precedes the motet on which it is based and follows Cantata BWV 64, which quotes the fifth stanza of Johann Franck’s poem “Jesu, meine Freude.” The recording was made in the Arnstadt church where Bach served from 1703 to 1707 (the 1699 organ has recently been restored), but the two cantatas and the motet date from his first year in Leipzig. This impressive presentation, the first in a series called Bach in Context, is a hardbound book of 84 pages. The notes favor Joshua Rifkin’s understanding of one voice to a part in Bach’s vocal/choral music, the use of a harpsichord as well as the church organ (not the more versatile chest organ), and the liturgical context in which the music was originally sung.