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Track(s) taken from CDA67071/2

Jesu, meine Freude, BWV713

composer

Christopher Herrick (organ)
Recording details: April 1995
Jesuitenkirche, Lucerne, Switzerland
Produced by Paul Spicer
Engineered by Paul Niederberger
Release date: April 1996
Total duration: 3 minutes 50 seconds
 

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David Goode (organ)

Reviews

‘Not only has Herrick found a simply ravishing Swiss organ which he uses with impeccable good taste, but the Hyperion team have come up with a top-notch recording. Once again they've given us a disc which combines consummate musical insight and technical mastery with sheer unalloyed listening pleasure’ (Gramophone)

‘Herrick has once again shown that his command of the Bach idiom is as total as any other contemporary organist's … an impressive addition to a milestone collection’ (Classic CD)

‘An indispensable collection and one I should not be happy to be without’ (Organists' Review)

‘Bach at his most tuneful and diverting and Herrick's style is particularly suited to them’ (Soundscapes, Australia)
The sentiments of Crüger’s hymn are ‘Jesus, my joy, my jewel, how long has my heart longed for you, who will protect me from my enemies’. The first part of an extended fantasia on the chorale melody is in the form of a fugue built around successive lines of the melody, but at the half-way point a section marked ‘dolce’ brings a change of tempo. This gentler and more pastoral mood marks the point in the chorale where the words speak of the ‘Lamb of God’. The music is freed from the constraints of the melody, following only the harmonic outline of the chorale setting.

from notes by Ian Carson © 1996

Crügers Hymne beschreibt die Gefühle ‘Jesus, meine Freude, wie lange sehnt sich mein Herz nach dir, der mich vor meinen Feinden beschützt’. Der erste Teil einer verlängerten Fantasie der Choralmelodie erscheint in Form einer Fuge, die um die nachfolgenden Melodielinien aufgebaut ist, auf halbem Weg jedoch geschieht ein Tempowechsel in einer Passage, die mit ‘dolce’ markiert ist. Diese sanftere und eher pastorale Stimmung bezeichnet einen Punkt im Choral, an dem die Worte ‘Lamm Gottes’ ausgesprochen werden. Die Musik wird von den melodischen Bändern befreit, und hiernach besteht nur der harmonische Rahmen der Choralvertonung .

aus dem Begleittext von Ian Carson © 1996
Deutsch: Ute Mansfeldt

Other albums featuring this work

Bach: The Complete Organ Works
CDS44121/3616CDs Boxed set (at a special price) — Download only
Bach: The Complete Organ Works, Vol. 7
Studio Master: SIGCD807Download onlyStudio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available
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