Meine Seele erhebt den Herrn, BWV648 (Bach/Ireland) - from CDA67309 - Hyperion Records

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John Ireland chose to refashion Meine Seele erhebt den Herrn BWV648 from the ‘Schübler’ chorales; his manuscript is dated August 1931. His one-page setting underlines the fugal tendencies and questing chromaticism of Bach’s original, beginning in and finally retreating into the bass.

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Recording details: April 2001
Henry Wood Hall, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Ludger Böckenhoff
Engineered by Ludger Böckenhoff
Release date: August 2001
Total duration: 1 minutes 20 seconds

Meine Seele erhebt den Herrn, BWV648

composer

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

circa 1748/9; Schübler Chorale No 4; arrangement of Cantata 10 movement 5

arranger

John Ireland (1879-1962)

August 1931; commissioned by Harriet Cohen and first published by Oxford University Press in A Bach Book for Harriet Cohen; first performed at the Queen's Hall on 17 October 1932

Angela Hewitt (piano)

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