Bach: The Motets
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简介
This album is the moving homage of the Norwegian Soloists’ Choir to the man who founded it in 1950 and remained its leader for 40 years. The choral conductor and composer Knut Nystedt passed away in December 2014, at the age of 99, and the disc may to some extent be regarded as an epitaph for him. Alongside two Bach motets the programme includes four works which span almost forty years of Nystedt’s long career, from Peace I leave with you, written in 1957 and still one of the composer’s most often performed works, to Be not afraid from 1995. These two motets, as well as O Crux (1977) are a cappella compositions, while the setting from 1986 of Ave Maria is something of a rarity, for solo violin and mixed choir. The violin part is performed by Maria Angelika Carlsen, artistic leader of the Ensemble Allegria, a group of young Norwegian string players that join the choir in the two Bach motets, and also in the closing work on the disc: Immortal Bach. In this atmospheric piece, the composer has taken the first eight bars of Bach’s chorale Komm, süsser Tod, stretching the tempo of its melodies and harmonies to create an impression of timelessness and endlessness. Grete Pedersen, Nystedt's successor as artistic leader of the choir, provides the arrangement for strings and choir.
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1. Komm, Jesu, komm, BWV 229: I. Komm, Jesu, komm
2. Komm, Jesu, komm, BWV 229: II. Drum schließ ich mich in deine Hände
3. Fürchte dich nicht, ich bin bei dir, BWV 228
4. Der Geist hilft unsrer Schwachheit auf, BWV 226: I. Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf
5. Der Geist hilft unsrer Schwachheit auf, BWV 226: II. Der aber die Herzen forschet
6. Der Geist hilft unsrer Schwachheit auf, BWV 226: III. Du heilige Brunst, süßer Trost
7. Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227: I. Jesu, meine Freude
8. Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227: II. Es ist nun nichts Verdammliches an denen
9. Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227: III. Unter deinen Schirmen
10. Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227: IV. Denn das Gesetz des Geistes
11. Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227: V. Trotz dem alten Drachen
12. Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227: VI. Ihr aber seid nicht fleischlich
13. Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227: VII. Weg mit allen Schätzen
14. Jesu, Meine Freude, Bwv 227: VIII. So Aber Christus In Euch Ist
15. Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227: IX. Gute Nacht, o Wesen
16. Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227: X. So nun der Geist
17. Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227: XI. Weicht, ihr Trauergeister
18. Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden, BWV 230
19. O Jesu Christ, mein Lebens Licht, BWV 118
20. Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, BWV 225: I. Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied
21. Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, BWV 225: II. Wie sich ein Vater erbarmet
22. Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, BWV 225: III. Lobet den Herrn in seinen Taten