BachPlus
Christ lag in Todesbanden
- Type CD
- Label Evil Penguin
- UPC 0608917721829
- Catalog number EPRC 0031
- Release date 07 June 2019
About the album
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.
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11Ich danke dir, Gott
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12Passacaglia in d-moll, BuxVW 161
06:33 -
13Die Furcht des Herren
10:18 -
14Lieber Herr Gott, wekke uns auf
03:53 -
15Christ lag in Todesbanden
04:50 -
16Christ lag in Todesbanden, BWV 4 Sinfonia
01:17 -
17Christ lag in Todesbanden, BWV 4 Versus 1
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18Christ lag in Todesbanden, BWV 4 Versus 2
03:57 -
19Christ lag in Todesbanden, BWV 4 Versus 3
02:11 -
110Christ lag in Todesbanden, BWV 4 Versus 4
03:01 -
111Christ lag in Todesbanden, BWV 4 Versus 5
02:55 -
112Christ lag in Todesbanden, BWV 4 Versus 6
01:36 -
113Christ lag in Todesbanden, BWV 4 Versus 7
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