Episode 1120. In yet another Bach Week, we broadcast, among other things, the first four cantatas of the Weihnachtsoratorium. Today the motet “Jesu, meine Freude” and the Magnificat by Johann Sebastian Bach.
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
1. Motet “Jesu, meine Freude” (a 5 BWV 227)
– “Jesu, Meine Freude”
– “Unter deinen Schirmen”
– “Denn das Gesetz des Geistes”
– “Trotz dem alten Drachen”
– “Ihr aber seid nicht fleischlich”
– “Weg mit allen Schätzen”
– “So aber Christus in euch ist”
– “Gute Nacht, o Wesen”
– “So nun der Geist”
– “Weicht, ihr Trauergeister”
Pygmalion conducted by Raphaël Pichon
(CD Motets – Pygmalion)
Read more about motet BWV 227.
2. Magnificat BWV 243
– 1. Magnificat
– 2. Et Exultavit
– 3. Quia Respexit
– 4. Omnes Generationes
– 5. Quia Fecit Mihi Magna
– 6. Et Misericordia
– 7. Fecit Potentiam
– 8. Deposuit Potentes
– 9. Esurientes Implevit Bonis
– 10. Suscepit Israel
– 11. Sicit Locutus
– 12. Gloria Patri
Vox Luminis conducted by Lionel Meunier
(CD: Bach Magnificat – Händel Dixit Dominus)
Read more about Magnificat BWV 243.
3. Triosonate no. 4 e minor, BWV 528
– II. Andante
Andrej Harinek, organ
Depicted: Vox Luminis (c: Tom Blaton)
