Johann Sebastian Bach

Motets (Volume 69)

BWV Anh.159/228/Anh.160/225/226/229/227/118/230

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CD/ Track	Title		Duration
1.1			05:24
1.2			10:26
1.3			08:42
1.4			13:28
1.5			08:32
2.1			08:36
2.2			19:47
2.3			06:26
2.4			04:47
2.5			06:00

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25,95 EUR

: SCM Hänssler
series:: Johann Sebastian Bach Edition
Art.-No.:: 092.069.000
: Doppel-CD
Duration:: 1:32 hrs.
: April 1999
: *recommended retail price

Motets (2 CD)

Anh 159 I Will Not Leave You Before You Bless Me
228 Be Not Afraid, I Am With You
Anh 160 Praise To The Lord In Every Land
225 Sing Now To God New Songs Of Praise
226 The Spirit Makes Our Weakness Strong

229 Come, Jesus, Come
227 Jesus, My Salvation
118 O Jesus Christ, Light Of My Life
deest See, The Righteous Must Die
230 Praise Ye The Lord, Praise Him, All Ye Nations

Within Bach´s oeuvre, the motets form a group that stands out for a number of reasons. When compared with the cantatas, they are few in number and cast in a singularly old-fashioned form, especially the motets for double chorus. The motets, however, made their breakthrough into the concert repertoire at an early date: they were Bach´s first works to be printed after his death, and, as early as 1794, the motet "Singet dem Herrn" was introduced into the repertoire of the newly founded Berlin "Singakademie" as its first Bach work. The motets thus founded access to the burgeoning middle-class concert life before the Passions and cantatas, "behind the backs" of the Bach cult´s high priests in Leipzig.