Jesu bleibet meine Freude from Cantata 147. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. Bach’s appointment as the Cantor at Leipzig’s Thomaskirche in 1723 required him to produce a new cantata for every Sunday service. Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring is taken from his Cantata No. 147 and is unusually elaborate, treated more like an aria than a chorale. It is perhaps the best-loved cantata movement from Bach’s entire o…

Arr. Henk Hogestein. The name of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) is inextricably connected to the German city of Leipzig. This modest and very dutiful master composer worked like a diligent civil servant. From 1723 until his death in 1750, he was cantor of the Thomaskirche in Leipzig. Since the beginning of the 20th century, the Bach Festival takes place in this city every year. The hallmark of …

Funeral Cantata. Par TELEMANN GEORG PHILIPP. Telemann's Funeral Cantata “Du aber, Daniel, gehe hin” appears here for the first time in print. A score of the work, until Second World War, was held in the Berliner Sing-Akademie. It was written by J. Dirmar, the former cantor at St Nikolai in Berlin and consisted of a four-page printed text. Full score, parts (BA3583) and choral score (BA3583-91) ava…

Par BRUCH MAX. Aside from his popular Violin Concerto no. 1, “ Kol Nidrei ” numbers among Max Bruch ’s most famous compositions. The melancholy “Adagio after Hebrew melodies” was written in 1880 for the cellist Robert Hausmann. It treats two old Jewish songs whose extraordinary beauty proved deeply moving to the Protestant Bruch, by his own admission. The tenor Cello sound is the ideal medium for …

St Louis Blues (Handy W.C.) - Imagine (Lennon J.) - La Chanson de Solveig (Grieg E.) - Blanche Neige, Un jour mon prince viendra (Churchill F.) - Danse polovtsienne (Borodine A.) - The James Bond Theme (Norman M.) - L'Accompagnatrice, Scènes d'enfants (Schumann R.) - Merrily we roll along (Cantor E., Mencher M. et Tobias C.) - Titanic, My Heart Will Go On (Jennings W. et Homer J.) - Jean de Floret…

Ce choral à quatre voix mixtes est écrit dans la grande tradition classique liturgique dans le style de Bach. Reprenant le système cher au vieux cantor, le choral comporte ici 3 variations. Bonnal avouait lui-même une pratique essentielle de l'oeuvre de Bach et du grégorien. / Choeur Mixte Satb A Cappella

?Révérence à Jean-Sebastien Bach? pour commémorer le 300e anniversaire de sa naissance (1685-1985)J'ai rencontré Henri Sauguet au début des années 1980. J'avais pris l'habitude d'aller le visiter régulièrement à son domicile du 36 rue la Bruyère à Paris dans le 9e arrondissement, jusqu'à sa disparition, pendant cette nuit du 21 au 22 juin 1989. J'avais en projet l'enregistrement de ses oeuvres pou…

St. Michael. Par BOURGEOIS LOUIS. The French composer Louis Bourgeois lived from c. 1510 to 1560. Bourgeois was cantor in Geneva and, commissioned by John Calvin, he composed melodies for metrical (rhyming) versions of the psalms. After completing about a hundred one-part psalms, he made some four-part arrangements, which were denounced and even resulted in his imprisonment for a day. Later, Bourg…

Jesu bleibet meine Freude from Cantata 147. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. Bach’s appointment as the Cantor at Leipzig’s Thomaskirche in 1723 required him to produce a new cantata for every Sunday service. Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring is taken from his Cantata No. 147 and is unusually elaborate, treated more like an aria than a chorale. It is perhaps the best-loved cantata movement from Bach’s entire o…