Bach ClavierÜbung, Pt 3; Chorales
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Composer or Director: Martin Luther, Heinrich Schütz, Anonymous, Johann Hermann Schein, Johann Sebastian Bach, Hans (Johann) Leo Hassler, Michael Praetorius, Samuel Scheidt
Label: Channel Classics
Magazine Review Date: 10/1999
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 107
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: CCS13498
Tracks:
| Composition | Artist Credit |
|---|---|
| Clavier-Übung III, Movement: Kyrie, Gott Vater in Ewigkeit, BWV669 |
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Leo van Doeslaar, Organ |
| Clavier-Übung III, Movement: Christe, aller Welt Trost, BWV670 |
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Leo van Doeslaar, Organ |
| Clavier-Übung III, Movement: Kyrie, Gott heiliger Geist, BWV671 |
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Leo van Doeslaar, Organ |
| Clavier-Übung III, Movement: Allein Gott in der Höh' sei Ehr', BWV676 |
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Leo van Doeslaar, Organ |
| Clavier-Übung III, Movement: Wir glauben all'an einen Gott, BWV680 |
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Leo van Doeslaar, Organ |
| Clavier-Übung III, Movement: Vater unser im Himmelreich, BWV682 |
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Leo van Doeslaar, Organ |
| Clavier-Übung III, Movement: Christ, unser Herr, zum Jordan kam, BWV684 |
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Leo van Doeslaar, Organ |
| Clavier-Übung III, Movement: Aus tiefer Not, BWV686 |
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Leo van Doeslaar, Organ |
| Clavier-Übung III, Movement: Jesus Christus unser Heiland, BWV688 |
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Leo van Doeslaar, Organ |
| Preludes and Fugues, Movement: Prelude and Fugue in E flat, BWV552 (from Clavier-I) |
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Leo van Doeslaar, Organ |
| Aus tiefer Noth schrei ich zu dir |
Hans (Johann) Leo Hassler, Composer
Hans (Johann) Leo Hassler, Composer Jos Van Veldhoven, Conductor Leo van Doeslaar, Organ Netherlands Bach Society |
| Jesus Christus, unser Heiland |
Hans (Johann) Leo Hassler, Composer
Hans (Johann) Leo Hassler, Composer Jos Van Veldhoven, Conductor Leo van Doeslaar, Organ Netherlands Bach Society |
| Wir gläuben all an einen Gott |
Martin Luther, Composer
Jos Van Veldhoven, Conductor Martin Luther, Composer Netherlands Bach Society Choir |
| Dies sind die heilgen zehn Gebot |
Michael Praetorius, Composer
Jos Van Veldhoven, Conductor Leo van Doeslaar, Organ Michael Praetorius, Composer Netherlands Bach Society Choir |
| Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr |
Johann Hermann Schein, Composer
Johann Hermann Schein, Composer Jos Van Veldhoven, Conductor Leo van Doeslaar, Organ Netherlands Bach Society Choir |
| Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam |
Johann Hermann Schein, Composer
Johann Hermann Schein, Composer Jos Van Veldhoven, Conductor Leo van Doeslaar, Organ Netherlands Bach Society Choir |
| (6) Motets, Movement: Christ, unser Herr, zum Jordan kam |
Anonymous, Composer
Anonymous, Composer Jos Van Veldhoven, Conductor Leo van Doeslaar, Organ Netherlands Bach Society Choir |
| (6) Motets, Movement: Jesus Christ, unser Heiland |
Anonymous, Composer
Anonymous, Composer Jos Van Veldhoven, Conductor Leo van Doeslaar, Organ Netherlands Bach Society Choir |
| (6) Motets, Movement: Kyrie, Gott Vater in Ewigkeit |
Anonymous, Composer
Anonymous, Composer Jos Van Veldhoven, Conductor Leo van Doeslaar, Organ Netherlands Bach Society Choir |
| (6) Motets, Movement: Allein Gott in der Höhe sei Ehr |
Anonymous, Composer
Anonymous, Composer Jos Van Veldhoven, Conductor Leo van Doeslaar, Organ Netherlands Bach Society Choir |
| (6) Motets, Movement: Dies sind die heiligen zehn Gebot |
Anonymous, Composer
Anonymous, Composer Jos Van Veldhoven, Conductor Leo van Doeslaar, Organ Netherlands Bach Society Choir |
| (6) Motets, Movement: Vater unser im Himmelreich |
Anonymous, Composer
Anonymous, Composer Jos Van Veldhoven, Conductor Leo van Doeslaar, Organ Netherlands Bach Society Choir |
| Vater unser im Himmelreich |
Samuel Scheidt, Composer
Jos Van Veldhoven, Conductor Leo van Doeslaar, Organ Netherlands Bach Society Choir Samuel Scheidt, Composer |
| Kyrie, `Gott Vater in Ewigkeit' |
Heinrich Schütz, Composer
Heinrich Schütz, Composer Jos Van Veldhoven, Conductor Leo van Doeslaar, Organ Netherlands Bach Society Choir |
Author: Jonathan Freeman-Attwood
However arcane in appearance, this programme principally comprises the major chorale preludes which form the basis of the third part of the Clavier-Ubung of 1739. Each one is prefaced, not, as the note states, with chorale harmonizations by Bach, but by the original tunes sans finery, followed by vocal settings by composers of a century earlier, notably Praetorius and the three ‘Ss’, Scheidt, Schein and Schutz. In programming terms, this has considerable merits, not least because Bach’s chorale preludes, framed by the mighty Prelude and Fugue in E flat, are substantial and intense creations which benefit both from interludes and a feel for the legacy of the chorale. The idea of juxtaposing the three elements – monody, a vocal setting and then Bach’s organ music – has no real value as a historical exercise, since this erroneously-termed ‘Organ Mass’ was designed by the composer en masse, so to speak, more as a Trinitarian repository than a self-contained liturgical entity. As with so much of Bach’s music from the last 15 years of his life, the momentum of his work is driven increasingly by a sense of ‘gathering up’ his perceived treasure into representative containers. In the Clavier-Ubung for organ, we have Bach’s concern for posterity, though the manner in which assiduous stile antico counterpoint is ravelled alongside gracious galant gesture reveals the seasoned master at the very peak of his powers; the extraordinarily self-confident exploitation of styles – for the higher purpose rather than to pacify critics who had dubbed him a regressive – appears with compelling frequency, and most obviously in ‘Vater unser’ where strict canon in the chorale is fused nonchalently with a galant Trio.
Leo van Doeselaar is an exceptionally accomplished player, ‘house organist’ of the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and eminently well suited to the challenge of lending just stature to this music. Indeed, theClavier-Ubung’s great ‘Aus tiefer Noth’, with its pedal parts ‘broken in two’ to form six grinding alla breve counterpoints, is given an unashamedly monumental reading, so too the yearning aspiration of the third ‘Kyrie, Gott heiliger Geist’ which is handled with attention to a motivic growth and harmonic implication which is prescient of at least 100 years later: the apocalyptic chromatic collapse at the end is one of Bach’s most astonishing inventions. Van Doeselaar also gives a sensational, spacious and epic reading of the E flat Fugue, and this is where the true glory of the Bader/Timpe organ is most tellingly heard. There are more poetic accounts of Allein Gott – such as Marie-Claire Alain’s – and the tempos can seem a touch laboured (Dies sind, for example) and cautious in the earlier chorales; recording organs is hard at the best of times, especially as the player tends to play to the building rather than to the microphone, which sacrifices some of the acoustic for clarity of registration. As for the singing, the Netherlands Bach Society Choir provide a genuine rhetorical sensibility under Jos van Veldhoven, who, as in his notable St Matthew Passion released last year (Channel Classics, 5/98), embraces the seventeenth-century vocal concertos with rare humility and intimacy, even if the timbre is intermittently soft-centred. Van Doeselaar takes most of the plaudits in a project which deserves recognition well beyond the organ fraternity. Strongly recommended.'
Leo van Doeselaar is an exceptionally accomplished player, ‘house organist’ of the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and eminently well suited to the challenge of lending just stature to this music. Indeed, the
Bach ClavierÜbung, Pt 3; Chorales
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