Yet another new recording of Bach's Motets. For years, these pieces, perhaps with the exception of Jesu, Meine Freude, were much less well known than Bach's passions, Mass In B Minor, and the major ...

As New College director of music Edward Higginbottom says in his sleeve notes: “The motets of J.S. Bach are small in number and confined in scope”. Confined in scope because they are all cast in ...

‘Let Satan send bad weather,” the chorus sings in Bach’s “Jesu, mein Freude.” That motet was part of an imaginative program juxtaposing Bach and English composer William Byrd that was assembled by ...

Motets are choral pieces set to sacred texts, although examples do exist of motets for accompanied solo voices. Although Bach may have composed more motets than the ones which are extant, the overall ...

The bulk of Bach’s choral writing lies in his 200-plus oratorios, the very works that the American Bach Soloists were founded to champion decades ago. But some of the master’s most concentrated doses ...

British choir Tenebrae perform a specially created programme combining Bach’s motets with a newly commissioned work by celebrated Scottish composer Sir James MacMillan. Show more Celebrated British ...

Tafelmusik presents a magical evening of motets and chorales written by members of the Bach family, including such treasures as J.S. Bach’s Jesu, meine Freude and Singet dem Herrn. The choral ...

The Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra’s Masterworks Series presentation of “Mahler’s Fifth” celebrates composers Gustav Mahler, Johann Sebastian Bach and Arnold Schoenberg Friday, Feb. 3 and Saturday, Feb ...

Chamber choir Incarnatus, directed by Scott Dettra, sang with passion, authority and eloquence on Oct. 2, 2021, at Church of the Incarnation in Dallas. Ben Torres / Special Contributor A worldwide ...

Tafelmusik Chamber Choir wraps up its 40th-anniversary season with a magical evening of Bach family motets and chorales written for choir and continuo, including such treasures as Jesu, meine Freude ...