Julia Doyle, Katharine Fuge, Clare Wilkinson - Johann Christoph Bach: Welt, gute Nacht (2011) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Herr, wende dich und sei mir gnadig
02. Mit Weinen hebt sichs an
03. Wie bist du denn o Gott
04. Der Gerechte, ob er gleich zu zeitlich stirbt
05. Ach, dass ich Wassers genug hatte
06. Furchte dich nicht
07. Es ist nun aus mit meinem Leben
08. Mein Freundin, du bist schon


This album was recorded live at Cadogan Hall in 2009. It features internationally acclaimed singers, including Matthew Brook, Peter Harvey and Katharine Fuge. It is packaged in a hard back book similar to our other releases. It contains a 48 pages booklet with original notes by Richard Campbell (to whose memory the recording is dedicated), and texts in German, English and French.

The live concert was billed “Six funerals and a wedding”: the pieces evoke the dark theme of grief, as was fashionable in 17th century Lutheran Germany; though the last track “Meine Freundin” is a lighter amorous dialogue The music on this album is in turn dark, poignant, humane and witty It features choral music (motets) as well as solo arias and laments, and two dialogues Johann Christoph Bach (1642-1703) - not to be confused with Johann Christian Bach, was Johann Sebastian Bach’s older cousin. A respected composer in his lifetime, he greatly influenced JS Bach’s music making.

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