Altbachisches Archiv

Altbachisches Archiv

Altbachisches Archiv
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Composer: Johann Michael Bach
Composer: Johann Christoph Bach
Composer: Adam Drese
Composer: Anonymous
Composer: Johann Bach
Composer: Georg Christoph Bach
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Cantus Cölln
Performer: Concerto Palatino
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set, Import
CD Release Date: 2003-07-08
Music Label: Harmonia Mundi Fr.
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Die Furcht des Herren, cantata (previous attrib. to Johann Christoph Bach)
  2. Motet 'Lieber Herr Gott', for 8 voices
  3. Wie bist du denn, O Gott, vocal concerto
  4. Nun ist alles überwunden, aria for SATB & continuo
  5. Es erhub sich ein Streit, vocal concerto
  6. Ich weiss, dass mein Erlöser lebt, motet for 5 voices
  7. Auf, lasst uns den Herren loben, for alto, strings & continuo
  8. Motet 'Unsers Herzens Freude', for 8 voices
  9. Weint nicht um meinen Tod, aria for SATB & continuo
  10. Meine Freundin, du bist schön, vocal concerto, for 4 voices & instruments
Music CD 2
  1. Motet 'Herr, nun lässest du deinen Diener', for 8 voices
  2. Herr, wende Dich und sei mir gnädig, vocal concerto
  3. Motet 'Der Gerechte, ob er gleich gu zeitlich stirbt', for 5 voices
  4. Unser Leben ist ein Schatten, motet
  5. Ach, wie sehnlich wart ich der Zeit, aria, for soprano, strings & continuo
  6. Herr, wenn ich nur Dich habe, motet, for 5 voices
  7. Siehe, wie fein und lieblich ist es, vocal concerto, for 2 tenors, bass & instruments
  8. Mit Weinen hebt sich an, aria, for four voices & continuo
  9. Ach, da� ich Wassers genug hätte, vocal concerto
  10. Motet in eight voices 'Nun hab ich überwunden'
  11. Es ist nun aus, aria for 4 voices & continuo
  12. Sei nun wieder zufrieden meine Seele, motet (poss. by Jonas de Fletin)
  13. Das Blut Jesu Christe, motet for 5 voices
  14. Ich lasse dich nicht, motet for double chorus (after Johann Christoph Bach), BWV Anh. 159 (BC C9)

Music reviews of Altbachisches Archiv

Music Review: Bach's predecessors done proud
Rating: 4 Stars

Whenever anyone mentions the name "Bach" today, they almost invariably are referring to Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), considered the greatest composer of the Baroque period, if not of all time. But few are aware that Bach actually was one among a long line of composers, the Bach family being a musical one from the early 17th century all the way until the late 18th (indeed, the music of Bach's son, Johann Christian, was better known than his father's until the great Bach revival of the early 19th century). Although there have been many recordings of works of Bach's sons, most of the music of his predecessors has been completely ignored, only rarely taken out for airings, mainly as curiosities.
Musical taste is and has always been transitory; even by J.S. Bach's time the music of his forefathers and relatives was seen as old-fashioned and had been mostly forgotten. Bach, though, obviously had a great love and affection for these works, as he kept the best of them carefully preserved in a manuscript later known as the "Altbachisches Archiv", which was not published until 1935. This new offering from Konrad Junghanel and Cantus Colln is a coplete recording of that manuscript.
The archive includes works by Johann, Heinrich, Johann Christoph, Georg Christoph and Johann Michael Bach, with Johann Christoph and Johann Michael being the best represented. The works, mostly motets in the old German style (resembling those by Buxtehude, Schein, Schutz and Bruhns)are certainly of a completely different ilk than what is commonly thought of as Baroque vocal music, and it is interesting to see what a great change took place in German musical taste by the time of J.S. Bach and Telemann. That said, this is gorgeous music by any standard, and anyone who enjoys the music of the above mentioned composers will surely revel in it.
Of all the pieces, the most powerful is certainly Johann Christoph Bach's "Es Erhub Sich Ein Streit", a very musically graphic depiction of the war in heaven related in St. John's Revelation, closing one's eyes one can clearly see the battling angels and the Satan-as-dragon in all its terror and glory -- surely this is great music (J.S. Bach himself revived this piece with great success). The most famous is, of course, the same composer's "Ach, das Ich Wassers Gnug Hatte", a beautiful lament that has become a staple in the countertenor repertoire. Mixed in the bag are a number of other delightful works, my own personal favorite being yet another work by Johann Christoph Bach, "Est ist Nun Aus", a simple, strophic farewell to life, each verse of which ends with a tender and moving setting of the phrase, "Welt, Gute Nacht" - "World, Good Night".
As usual, Junghanel and the Cantus Colln are just about flawless in their execution of the music -- but, perhaps, almost too flawless. Despite its beauty, there is a certain "sameness" to these pieces, and the performance is so cool, so smooth that the average listener may be a bit tired of it all by the end. But this is only a minor crticism; Junghanel seems to know the music like the back of his hand, and his love for it can only inspire awe in its pristine beauty, a beauty unmarred by later conceits of the high baroque and rococo.
The packaging, as usual with Harmonia Mundi, is excellent, with both discs (in a digipack) enclosed in a sturdy little cardboard box along with a sixty-six page booklet.
I think almost anyone who is interested in this music will attain endless pleasure from this set, the uninitiated as well as those who are familiar with early baroque church music. We are very, very lucky that the manuscript (which has an interesting history of its own) survived, and that these simple yet sublime pieces, saved from oblivion by the composers' most famous descendant, are still with us and can inspire such radiant performances as those given here.
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