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Johann Christoph Bach - Welt, gute Nacht

Recorded live at Cadogan Hall in 2009, this album features internationally acclaimed soloists, including Matthew Brook, Peter Harvey and Katharine Fuge.

Packaged in a hard back book similar to our other releases, it contains a 48 pages booklet with original notes by Richard Campbell, and texts in German, English and French.

The live concert was billed “Six funerals and a wedding”: the pieces evoke the dark theme of grief, as was fashionable in 17th century Lutheran Germany; though the last track “Meine Freundin” is a lighter amorous dialogue.

The music on this album is in turn dark, poignant, humane and witty. It features choral music (motets) as well as solo arias and laments, and two dialogues.

Johann Christoph Bach (1642-1703) - not to be confused with Johann Christian Bach, was Johann Sebastian Bach’s older cousin. A respected composer in his lifetime, he greatly influenced JS Bach’s music making. ( SDG )

Johann Christoph Bach:
Herr, wende dich und sei mir gnadig, Dialogus
Mit Weinen hebt sich’s an, Aria
Wie bist du den, o Gott, Lamento
Der Gerechte, ob er gleich zu zeitlich stirbt, Motet
Ach, dass ich Wassers g’nug hatte, Lamento
Furchte dich nicht, Motet
Es ist nun aus mit meinem Leben, Aria
Meine Freundin, du bist schon, Dialogus

Julia Doyle, Katharine Fuge, Clare Wilkinson, Jeremy Budd
James Gilchrist, Nicholas Mulroy, Matthew Brook, Peter Harvey
The English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

Live recorded: Cadogan Hall, London - 16 April 2009