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Here is the most ambitious composition left by Johann Ludwig Bach, known as ‘the Meiningen Bach’, who belonged to a branch of the family separated from Johann Sebastian’s since the 16th century. Its genesis was rather unusual: Johann Ludwig composed his cantatas to texts by his patron, Duke Ernst Ludwig, and was therefore commissioned to set the poem which the duke had written for his own funeral, in November 1724. Five years before St Matthew Passion, this score already requires two choirs and a large array of instruments, and must have utilised every musician in the court Kapelle. Since the 2007-08 season Hans-Christoph Rademann has been chief conductor of the RIAS Kammerchor. He grew up in a family of Kantors, and during his training as a choral and orchestral conductor at the Musikhochschule in Dresden he already founded the Dresdner Kammerchor, with which he made a reputation both in Germany and abroad, and which he still directs today. “Here's a real find...Don't be put off by the funeral music title; this is optimistic and celebratory and it bursts with trumpets-and-drums fervour in honour of the departed Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, while visions of the heavenly host mingle with deep-felt grief in complex counterpoint...Excellent performances; a major rediscovery which should be heard here.” The Observer, 13th February 2011 “The RIAS Chamber Choir enunciates its words clearly and accentuates the text lightly, thrilling to the stereo banter of the double choruses and bringing a wonderful grace to Johann Ludwig's less obvious ideas...A must-have for lovers of the German Baroque: no wonder Johann Sebastian thought it worth performing so music of Ludwig's music in Leipzig.” International Record Review, March 2011 “unmannered and irradiating solos from Rademann's singers allow the listener to penetrate the courtly virtues of employer and employee in unusually close collaboration - and the whole amounts to rather more than the individual parts...Rademann makes as strong a case for Ludwig's best surviving work as one can imagine.” Gramophone Magazine, June 2011 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Funeral Music for Duke Ernst Ludwig von Sachsen-Meiningen
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| |  | J L Bach: Funeral Music, Motets, Cantatas & Missa Brevis
Johann Ludwig Bach is one of the lesser known members of this amazingly musical family. Very few of his compositions have survived but his cantatas in particular have attracted the attention of scholars, as eighteen of them were handed down via J S Bach. He performed them in 1726, when he was Thomaskantor in Leipzig. “The 'Meiningen' Bach, distantly related to Johann Sebastian, had a rare gift for ravishing, haunting melody. His Funeral Music is essential listening.” BBC Music Magazine, January 2012 **** | | | (also available to download from $20.00) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Sacred Music of the Bach Family
Bach, C P E: | Kantate Wq. 244 'Gott hat den Herrn auferwecket' Martina Lins (soprano), Paul Eliott (tenor), Gotthold Schwarz (bass) Heilig Wq. 217 Hilke Helling (alto) Kantate Wq. 243 'Anbetung dem Erbarmer' Barbara Schlick (soprano), Hilke Helling (contralto), Wilfried Jochens (tenor), Gotthold Schwarz (bass) Rheinische Kantorei, Das Kleine Konzert, Hermann Max | Bach, G C: | Seihe, wie fein und lieblich - 'Geburtstagkantate' Ekkehard Wagner (tenor I), Reinhart Ginzel (tenor II), Hermann Christian Polster (bass) | Bach, J C: | Tantum ergo Elisabeth Scholl (soprano), Ruth Sandhoff (contralto), Andreas Karasiak (tenor), Gotthold Schwarz (bass) Dresdner Kammerchor, La Stagione Frankfurt, Michael Schneider Meine Freundin du bist schon Gisela Burkhardt (soprano), Elisabeth Wilke (alto), Ekkehard Wagner (tenor), Hermann Christian Polster (bass) Capella Fidicinia Leipzig, Hans Grüss | Bach, J C F: | Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme Choral & Chor aus 'Die Kindheit Jesu' Barbara Schlick (soprano), Hilke Helling (contralto) Rheinische Kantorei, Das Kleine Konzert, Hermann Max | Bach, J E: | Motette 'Meine Seele erhebt den Herrn' Martina Lins (soprano), Silke Weisheit (alto), Martin Schmitz (tenor), Hans-George Wimmer (bass) Ode auf den 77.Psalm 'Das Vertrauen der Christen auf Gott' Christoph Pregardien (tenor) Rheinische Kantorei, Das Kleine Konzert, Hermann Max | Bach, J Ludwig: | Motette 'Gedenke meiner, mein Gott' Trauermusik Rheinische Kantorei, Das Kleine Konzert, Hermann Max | Bach, J M I: | Ach, bleib bei uns, Herr Jesu Christ Gisela Burkhardt (soprano), Elisabeth Wilke (alto), Ekkehard Wagner (tenor), Hermann Christian Polster (bass) Ach, wie sehnlich wart' ich der Zeit Gisela Burkhardt (soprano) | Bach, J S: | Motets, BWV225-230 Magnificat in E flat major, BWV243a: excerpts Jesu, du mein liebstes Leben, BWV356 Motet BWV228 'Fürchte dich nicht' Gib dich zufrieden und sei stille, BWV315 Wer nur den liebe Gott laesst walten, BWV434 Rostocker Motettenchor, Hartwig Eschenburg | Bach, W F: | Kantate 'Erzittert und fallet', F 83 Barbara Schlick (soprano), Claudia Schubert (contralto), Wilfried Jochens (tenor), Stephan Schreckenberger (bass) Rheinische Kantorei, Das Kleine Konzert, Hermann Max |
This collection includes lesser known works such as Johann Ernst Bach’s motet Meine Seele erhebt den Herrn and Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach’s Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme as well as C P E Bach’s Easter Cantata. | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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