Richard Marlow, The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge - Bach Family Motets (1997)
Richard Marlow, The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge - Bach Family Motets (1997)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 360 Mb | Total time: 75:31 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Conifer Classics | # 75605 51306 2 | Recorded: 1997
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 360 Mb | Total time: 75:31 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Conifer Classics | # 75605 51306 2 | Recorded: 1997
Several generations of Bachs have been gathered by Richard Marlow and the Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge for their programme of motets. All of them have been recorded at various times in the past but many only infrequently, and one or two, perhaps, now make their first appearance on CD. There is no dull music here and two of the pieces, at least, are of outstanding expressive beauty. The earlier of these is Johann Bach’s profoundly affecting Unser Leben ist ein Schatten (“Our life is but a shadow”). This member of the clan survived both the Black Death and the savage bombardment of Erfurt during the Thirty Years War. His second wife belonged to the family which later, in the unforgettable words of the late Karl Geiringer “was to produce, to its lasting glory, the mother of Sebastian Bach”. It is hardly fanciful to read into Johann Bach’s poignant picture of the frailty of human life the terrifying circumstances that beset Germany in the first half of the seventeenth century. The other, Ich lasse dich nicht (“I will not let Thee go, except Thou bless me”), is by Johann Christoph, the most original composer from among J. S. Bach’s forebears. Indeed, this eight-strand motet, divided into two antiphonal four-part groups was once thought to be by J.S.B. These two pieces are of exceptional merit, yet much else here hardly ranks beneath them and readers may well consider Johann Christoph’s brother Johann Michael’s Halt, was du hast, which affectingly incorporates verses of the hymn Jesu, meine Freude and its associated melody, to be on a comparably elevated level.
The single piece by which J. S. Bach is represented here is not quite what it seems. The Psalm motet Jauchzet dem Herrn, alle Welt was first ascribed to Bach by his pupil and son-in-law, Johann Christoph Altnickol, who also made the earliest copy of it. Yet the piece is clearly an arrangement, very possibly by Bach himself, of his own music derived from a Christmas Cantata No. 28 (section 2 of the motet), music by Telemann (section 3) and music, perhaps by Telemann (section 1).
The performances are very good indeed, with notably well-sustained singing by the women’s voices to whom the soprano and alto parts are allotted. There are some unfortunate lapses in pitch here and there, as in the opening section of Ich lasse dich nicht; though these are small weaknesses which hardly spoil one’s enjoyment, it would have been easy to correct them. Of greater concern, perhaps, is the effect of the Trinity College Chapel acoustic on the more intimate of the motets. It is partly a matter of personal taste, for the recorded sound is excellent, but in these surroundings the expressive fervour and highly imaginative word-painting of Unser Leben ist ein Schatten, for example, comes over as somewhat diluted and impersonal. But Marlow’s direction is sensitive to text and music alike, and the programme is a delight from beginning to end.–Nicholas Anderson
Performer:
The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge
Richard Marlow, conductor
Tracklist:
Johann Bach (1604-1673)
01. Sei nun wieder zufrieden meine Seele
Unser Leben ist ein Schatten
02. Unser Leben ist ein Schatten
03. Ich weiß wohl
04. Ich bin die Auferstehung
05. Ach wie flüchtig
06. Ach Herr, lehr uns
Johann Christoph Bach (1642-1703)
07. Ich lasse dich nicht
Der Mensch, vom Weibe geboren
08. Der Mensch, vom Weibe geboren
09. Ach, wie nichtig
10. Lieber Herr Gott, wecke mich auf
Johann Michael Bach (1648-1694)
11. Nun hab' ich überwunden
12. Halt, was du hast
13. Fürchtet euch nicht
14. Sei, lieber Tag, willkommen
Johann Ludwig Bach (1677-1731)
15. Das ist meine Freude
16. Unsere Trübsal
17. Es danken dir, Gott
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Jauchzet dem Herrn (BWV anh.160)
18. Jauchzet dem Herrn
19. Sei Lob und Preis
Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732-1795)
Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme
20. Wachet auf
21. Zion hört die Wächter singen
22. Gloria sei dir gesungen
23. Chorale: Gloria sei dir gesungen
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Richard Marlow, The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge - Bach Family Motets (1997)
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