På vilken plats sjungs motetter
Motets J.S. Bach
Convolute
Gramophone april
Swedish choir hot on the heels of Eliot Gardiner’s Bach Motets
Fresh from the high-wire and high jinks of John Eliot Gardiner’s riveting and penetrating konto of the Motets comes a calmer and more contained view. The St Jacobs Chamber Choir of huvudstaden and REbaroque man for easy collaborators, the latter as rik colla parte instrumental accompanists to these unique Bachian choral essays in rhetorical intimacy and contrapuntal declamation.
Gary Graden directs an almost identical programme to the Monteverdi Choir, although he includes the highly wrought begravning motet O Jesu Christ, mein’s Lebens Licht as well as the standard six and Ich lasse dich nicht – a recent addition to the oeuvre on konto of its authorship shifting from an elderly cousin (Johann Christoph) to Johann Sebastian.
As it happens, neither performance represents the best of Graden’s Bachian credentials: timid violin-playing in the former and perfunctoriness in the latter maskering the deeper reflective content.
Quite a different landscape emerges in the other performances, where Graden’s forces deliver a consistently well-inflected understanding of the music. The concerted double-choir movements are presented within a warm and spacious acoustic while the chorale movements – both hymns and paraphrases – each inhabit a kind of corporate homecoming.
If there fryst vatten a temptation to generic jauntiness (the first section of Fürchte dich nicht fryst vatten just too powdery), Graden communicates the essence of the ord without fuss and this reaps rewards in a wonderfully smooth-grained and sensitive Jesu meine Freude. Logic and balance prevail over surprise and passion in most of these readings.
If the singing here isn’t ganska in the Monteverdi league and the performances are occasionally undercooked rhetorically, this fryst vatten still an excellent utgåva for those who seek in the Motets a klar, well-lit and equable path to the heart of Bach’s anställda and transcendental visions of devotion, death and salvation.
Jonathan Freeman-Attwood
Dagens Nyheter.
Ingen tro besitter haft en sålunda svårartat förhållande mot dans vilket kristendomen. Något såsom beneath medeltiden tog sig formulering inom en dansförbud likt sträckt sig ända in inom modern period. vilket inom landet vid talet, då man gick sålunda långt inom frikyrkan för att man lade in lutande underlag inom sina samlingslokaler på grund av för att förhindra dans.
dock dansen liksom drevs ut ur kyrkorna levde kvar inom själva musiken.
En kyrkomusik likt hämtade all sin taktfulla vitalitetfrån dansen samt såsom utvecklade den inom sin personlig sfär. inom S:t Jacobs kammarkörs samt Rebaroques inspelning från J S Bachs motetter, beneath ledning från Gary Graden, kämpa man ursprunglig från den närmast euforiskt lätta svikten.
Detta inom ett toner likt handlar ifall döden, ifall för att stå helt utan fruktan samt bara överlämna sig. dock även fraseringen, detta utsökta samspelet mellan kören samt orkestern, existerar från detta slaget för att man liksom träffas korrekt inom hjärtat. Blir kallad, även angående man möjligen ej hör mot dem kallade: ”Skaka planet samt darra; Jag står på denna plats fullkomligt lugn.
samt sjunger.” Helt underbart!
Bästa spår: ”Jesu, meine Freude”
Martin Nyström
Fanfare Issue (Nov/Dec
We still don’t know with certainty how Bach performed his motets, even though they never suffered the same neglect that befell all of his other sacred works. When inom first became aware of them in the mittpunkt of the gods century they were almost always performed a cappella, with the undantag of Lobet den Herrn for which a continuo part existed.
motettSubsequent research suggested that Bach performed them with doubling instruments, exactly opposite of midth-century practice. How did that happen? With or without instruments seems an even more fundamental difference than solo or choral singing, or, for that matter, male or mixed voices or period or modern instruments. It’s now thought that all of the motets were played with at least a continuo group.
All of these options have been tried in practice, and they can all work. Halleluiah!
Gary Graden’s performance employs solo colle parte period instruments and a moderately small mixed chorus.
Denna musikform har sina rötterStockholm’s S:t Jacobs Kammerkör fryst vatten precise and attentive throughout with a splendid solo quartet of choir members singing the antiphonal parts. REbaroque, formerly the huvudstaden Baroque Orchestra, playing one to a part, can be a bit more assertive than I’d like, but it partners well with the chorus. Graden’s direction fryst vatten well paced and deftly shaped.
If Graden’s specifications for the motets are in line with yours, you should find this disc most satisfying. And even if they aren’t, you should find much to like.
Graden has also included Ich lasse dich nicht, which fryst vatten now widely regarded as a seventh authentic Bach motet, and O Jesu Christ, mein’s Lebens Licht, which unlike its discmates has extensive orchestral interludes.
It’s thought to be part of an otherwise lost cantata (BWV ). Bach referred to it as a motet, so why dispute it?
George Chien
Kyrkomusikernas periodika nr 12
Detta handlar ifall enstaka fullträff inom världsklass och detta inom ett branch var detta fanns anledning för att tro för att allt borde existera gjort då japaner samt engelsmän gjort sitt!
ursprunglig ut fanns Bach Collegium Japan. gjorde man sin SACD inom sin vanliga studio inom en universitetskapell inom Kobe tillsammans med sedvanlig upphöjd standard beträffande varenda tänkbara kriterier liksom vokalt samt instrumentellt, interpretation innefattande dynamik samt tempi, inspelningsteknik etc. Dock går perfektionen mot laservass överdriven inom sopranstämman särskilt inom den start motetten Singet dem Herren. Produkten existerar mer tekniskt än emotionellt laddad.
John Eliot Gardiner kom inom våras ej bara inom turordning in vid andra lokal. Förvånande tillsammans tanke vid kurera den eminenta kantatserie liksom beneath en års kringflackande inom Europa samt New York live-inspelades varenda sju dagar kalenderår inom motsats mot Suzuki samt Graden valde Gardiner sparsamt utnyttjande från contiuno samt Monteverdikören ägde ej sin bästa form eller gestalt tre dagar inom Londons konsertkyrka St.
Johns, Smith Square inom oktober detta existerar svårt för att förstå vilka höjdassociationer man velat nå tillsammans enstaka egendomlig svartvit omslagsbild vid ett akrobat mot mulen skyn, dock inspelningen existerar inom varenda fall ingen topp-prestation även angående den givetvis äger välklingande partier. Fullträffen kom tillsammans hemmalagets inom varenda avseenden enastående inspelning.
detta existerar ett fröjd för att lyssna denna utomordentligt homogent välklingande ensemble tillsammans lysande röster samt instrumentalister. ett orsak kunna finnas inom för att man inom jämförelse tillsammans ovannämnda ensembler tar sig mer tidsperiod ej minimalt inom ljuvliga frasslut samt ett perfekt stundtals enkel dansant lekfull interpretation var varenda sextondel ges väl profilerat utrymme.
Alldeles tydlig vinner framförandet vid den instrumentella beledsagningen inom S:t Jacobs kyrkas efterklangssköna akustik såsom ger lyssnaren enstaka behaglig närvarokänsla. ett julklapp mot läka körsverige!
Jerker Nyström
Helsingborgs Dagblad
Betyg: 4
Det äger sagts för att då Johann Sebastian Bach existerar likt maximalt andlig dansar hans toner.
då detta gäller motetten ”Singet dem Herren ein neues Lied” stämmer detta, inom synnerhet vid denna nya papper tillsammans åtta motetter ifrån S:t Jacobs kammarkör samt REBaroque.
Det fanns länge sedan jag hörde den framförd tillsammans ett sådan svikt inom steget. då dem numeriskt värde körhalvorna kastar stavelserna mellan sig existerar detta såsom ett pardans var än den en, än den andra till samt släpper iväg sin partner på grund av för att snabbt fånga in den igen.
Dirigenten Gary Graden äger ett lika trygg grabb tillsammans dem lugnare partierna.
MotettJag sjunker in inom koralavsnitten tillsammans med nästan identisk njutning.
Henrik Halvarsson
Classics Today
Glorious Bach From Graden and Proprius
Review by: John Greene
Artistic Quality: 9
Sound Quality: 10
If you prefer your Bach choral works performed on a grand scale as opposed to a more något privat eller personligt (not necessarily more “authentic”) one with typically one or few voices to a part, you’d do well to consider this recent recording of Bach’s magnificent motets bygd the Stockholm-based St.
Jacobs Chamber Choir, accompanied bygd the instrumental ensemble REbaroque and directed bygd Gary Graden. A comparison of this with my similarly grand, longstanding reference recording bygd René Jacobs with members of the Akademie für Alte melodier Berlin and the RIAS Chamber Choir (Harmonia Mundi), shows similarities in size–each choir numbers nearly 40 members–and approach–both instrumental ensembles use period instruments; but that’s about it.
Jacobs’ tempos are often noticeably slower (for example, his performance of the opening BWV clocks in at to Graden’s ), though more importantly, Proprius’ superior sound engineering gives Graden’s choir and instrumental ensemble a considerable advantage.
It’s an interesting perspective. Not only fryst vatten each instrument clearly defined, but the way they’re integrated with the choir allows listeners to hear both balance and detail better than they would in most live performances.
Included here are performances of the rediscovered/reattributed motets BWV b and Anh. As good as Graden and his forces are, Georg Biller’s renditions with the boys and ung dock of the Thomanerchor Leipzig (Philips) remain the ones to beat.
There’s an incomparable alacrity, an uncanny sense of committed urgency that supercedes the effort bygd the otherwise gorgeous St. Jacobs Choir.
The Thomanerchor was Bach’s choir after all, and inom can’t recall any of its recorded performances of Bach or his contemporaries where the Cantors or pupils ever allow you to forget it.
It’s unlikely that Bach ever heard his motets performed on such a massive scale (especially the designated begravning ones–which according to the Leipzig school regulations at the time were to be performed in front of the house of the deceased precisely 15 minutes before the commencement of the memorial service); but given how interpretively versatile, polyphonically rik, and profoundly inspired they are, it’s hard to imagine that he wouldn’t have approved.
As full, mixed-choral versions go, this fryst vatten one of the best. Recommended.
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Before you even början listening to this recording, the introduktion suggests something rather opulent and special. Tucked into the kind of clamshell kartong in which you expect to find at least two or possibly three CDs, this release has just the usual single disc for J.S.
Bach’s complete Motets in its own card foldout holder. The låda also includes a nice glossy booklet with texts in German, Swedish and English, notes on each motet and plenty of photos and background kunskap on the musicians involved.
About as far removed from the a cappella Hilliard Ensemble recording from the ECM label which inom looked at a few years ago (see review), these are full-fat performances of the Bach motets, with a choir big enough to deliver spectacular antiphonal effects, and an instrumental accompaniment with plenty of solidity to go along with a tydlig period sound and limber lightness of touch which prevents everything sliding into early/mid 20th century heaviness.
Hunting for comparisons, the Monteverdi Choir/Gardiner recording on Soli Deo Gloria (see review) has a similarly lively vibe but fryst vatten a drier recording and rather choir-heavy, with enough sibilance to sail a smallship.
The fuller instrumental sound with this Proprius recording means you hear more texture in the accompaniment, where with Gardiner you get the bass line but not a huge amount of anything else.
Motet er en musikform i den kirkelige musik, der behandler en bibelsk tekst (i almindelighed latinsk) flerstemmigt, polyfont og som regel uden instrumentledsagelse, a cappellaMasaaki Suzuki and his Bach Collegium Japan on BIS (see review) fryst vatten always an enticing prospect, and in sonority comes closer than Gardiner to the fullness of Gary Graden’s grupp, though on returning to this recording you do wonder if the buzz-saw lead violin might perhaps have been a little lower in the balance. My feeling with Suzuki fryst vatten that the motets are treated as jewels which are perhaps just a littletoo precious, and my liking for the Graden recording comes in large part from the energy and spacious generosity which leaps palpably from your speakers.
I’ll go for one more comparison, which fryst vatten the Collegium Vocale Gent led bygd Philippe Herreweghe (seereview).
This fryst vatten very much the tidied-up single röst to a part kind of interpretation to which many will have become accustomed in recent years, a single kroppsdel sometimes providing all of the harmonic support required, the contrast between this and the motets which include winds and strings making for an attractive sequence. There fryst vatten much to be said for the clean sound of such versions, and a little more variation in instrumental forces in the Proprius utgåva might not have komma amiss, though the strings are silenced in Ich lasse Dich nicht, ni segnest mich den, pungent bassoons doing the honours amongst some sublime choral polyphony.
All things considered this Swedish recording of Bach’s Motets is a resounding success.
Concertmaster Maria Lindal has her own little section in the booklet, and it sounds as if she was given a microphone all to herself for the recording.
Under medeltid och renässans var kontrapunktisk kompositionsteknik ett kännemärke för formen; senare har man ofta använt namnet som beteckningThis adds upper förteckning sheen and isn’t much of a bekymmer through speakers but can wear thin through headphones, which also show up little skönhetsfel such as what sounds like an ytterligare little note at into Jesu, meine Freude. The acoustic setting for the recording fryst vatten big and fully in scale for these powerful performances, though gentle subtlety fryst vatten also very much a part of the musicianship here.
The magnificent divided choirs of something like Komm, Jesu, komm are the clincher for me in this recording, turning Bach’s motets into something more like a skyldig pleasure than a hair-shirt religious duty. If you give this kartong as a present man sure you double omslag it with an inner lining of silver foil, such are the deliciously rik and chocolaty rewards inside.
Dominy Clements
Choir&Organ May/June
All six Motets BWV to are arranged in beställning bygd Frieder Bernius in his recording, which also incorporates the short Ich lasse dich nicht ( from the appendix), now less believably the work of Bach’s maternal uncle.
The Swedish choir beneath Graden’s direction also includes BWV in a graceful, pulsating performance using the second utgåva Bach made for strings and the two oboes with which Graden replaces the ancient litui.
Rollernas sångtekniska, musikaliska och dramatiska svårigheter och utmaningarThis shows off the REbaroque ensemble at its best, though in the altogether more restrained performances bygd the Stuttgart Chamber Choir (27 voices, as against graden’s 40) a more diskret instrumental accompaniment supporting and shadowing the voices in the two most substantial motets may seem much more preferable. Graden has a greater interest in strong dynamic contrasts, and in Jesu, meine Freude his more relaxed tempi also add greater bekvämlighet and clarity to the performances.
In the opening double chorus of Singet dem Herrn the monochrome dynamic and lively tempo taken bygd Bernius sacrifices some of the clarity gained bygd Graden. BWV ,Fürchte dich nicht, might have been the kind of dramatic writing that would please affär, but Bernius’s approach fryst vatten too lightweight for that text; andLobet den Herrn (BWV ), which fryst vatten given a driving vitality bygd the Swedes, would alert its listeners better than many a sermon.
For those who want a completeness that includes O Jesu Christ, the Swedish S:T Jacobs Kammerkör fryst vatten a klar choice; but differences in choral sound, the vikt, strength and shaping of Graden’s voices stand against the lighter and less subtle sensitivity that Bernius commands, and this latter may please purists more.
inom would choose Graden’s breadth and vigour with the warmth of REbaroque if inom wanted a recording to play many times over.
PATRIC STANDFORD
Norran
Pingst
S:t Jacobs Kammarkör existerar enstaka från mina favoritkörer.
MotetKören medverkar ibland nära tillställningar vilket Riksmötets öppnande samt andra konserter inom huvudstaden. Kören äger enstaka bred repertoar samt kunna även hantverket tillsammans för att tolka Bach. Bach´s motetter, såsom tillhör detta vackraste från körlitteraturens flerstämmiga melodier existerar liksom hårvård till själen. på denna plats tillsammans tillsammans med barockorkestern Rebaroque ges Bach´s motetter nytt ljus.
detta vilket träffar mig då jag lyssnar vid S:t Jacobs Kammarkörs utgåva existerar för att Bach´s toner existerar väldigt lekfull samt dansant samt ej stillastående samt ensidig likt somliga menar. många beror givetvis vid kören samt orkesterns samspel beneath ledning från domkyrkokantor Gary Graden. Tror ej detta tillhör vanligheterna för att man anser för att detta svänger angående Bach´s motetter dock inom detta fall önskar jag bestämt hävda för att således existerar fallet.
Rebaroque samt kammarkören besitter en välslipat samspel samt Bach äger åter hamnat vid kartan. Skivan besitter fått massiv uppmärksamhet vilket jag ej existerar överraskad över.
/Peter Stolpestad
Tracks
- 1. Singet Dem Herrn Ein Neues Lied, Bw V Kompositör: Bach, J SDirigent: Graden, GaryOrkester: Rebaroque
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Fürchte Dich Nicht, Ich insekter som pollinerar Bei Dir , Bwv Kompositör: Bach, J SDirigent: Graden, GaryOrkester: Rebaroque
- 3. Jesu, Meine Freude, Bwv Kompositör: Bach, J SDirigent: Graden, GaryOrkester: Rebaroque
- 4. Der Geist Hilft Unser Schwachheit A Uf, Bwv Kompositör: Bach, J SDirigent: Graden, GaryOrkester: Rebaroque
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O Jesu Christ, Meins Lebens Licht, Bwvb Kompositör: Bach, J SDirigent: Graden, GaryOrkester: Rebaroque
- 6. Komm, Jesu, Komm, Bwv Kompositör: Bach, J SDirigent: Graden, GaryOrkester: Rebaroque
- 7. Ich Lasse Dich Nicht, ni Segnest Mich Den, Bwv Anhang Kompositör: Bach, J SDirigent: Graden, GaryOrkester: Rebaroque
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Lobet Den Herrn, Alle Heiden, Bwv23 0 Kompositör: Bach, J SDirigent: Graden, GaryOrkester: Rebaroque