Bach - Cantata Christ lag in Todesbanden BWV 4 - Jacobs | Netherlands Bach Society

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The Easter cantata Christ lag in Todes Banden, BWV 4 – here recorded for All of Bach with René Jacobs - is one of Bach’s earliest vocal works. The form of the cantata is old-fashioned: no opera arias and no new cantata texts either. Bach sets each strophe of one of Luther’s best-known chorales to music. It is clear that Bach is still working in an older musical idiom here. Nevertheless, in today’s ears, the piece sounds perfect. Bach himself also recognised its worth. Nearly twenty years later, when his style was almost fully developed, he presented the work again, now at his final musical place of work, Leipzig. This was the version we know today.

For more information on BWV 4 and credits of this production go to https://www.bachvereniging.nl/en/bwv/bwv-4/

Recorded for the project All of Bach on November 5th 2023 at Grote Kerk Naarden. If you want to help us complete All of Bach, please subscribe to our channel https://bit.ly/2vhCeFB and consider donating https://bit.ly/3J5uprM.

This recording is dedicated to the memory of Charles P. Doster.

All of Bach is a project of the Netherlands Bach Society, with the aim to perform and record all of Bach's works and share them online with the world for free. Visit our online treasury for more videos and background material on https://www.bachvereniging.nl/en/allofbach. For concert dates and tickets go to https://www.bachvereniging.nl/en/concerts.

Netherlands Bach Society
René Jacobs, conductor
Isabel Schicketanz, soprano
Alexander Chance, alto
Thomas Hobbs, tenor
Edward Grint, bass

0:00 Sinfonia
1:39 Christ lag in Todes Banden (Chor)
5:17 Den Tod niemand zwingen kunnt (Duett)
9:00 Jesus Christus, Gottes Sohn (Arie)
10:39 Es war ein wunderlicher Krieg (Chor)
12:50 Hie ist das rechte Osterlamm (Arie)
15:34 So feiren wir das hohe Fest (Duett)
16:53 Wir essen und leben wohl (Choral)