J. S. BACH

 

Jesu, deine Passion

 

Cantatas BWV 22, 23, 127 & 159

 

Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe BWV 22

Du wahrer Gott und Davids Sohn BWV 23

Herr Jesu Christ, wahr' Mensch und Gott BWV 127

Seht, wir gehn hinauf gen Jerusalem BWV 159

 

Dorothee Mields - soprano

Matthew White - alto

Jan Kobow - tenor

Peter Kooy - bass

 

Collegium Vocale Gent / Philippe Herreweghe

 

Bach reserved some of his most elaborate cantatas for worship on the Sunday before the beginning of Lent - and it was for that very day that he composed the cantatas BWV 22 and 23 in 1723, as test pieces destined to gain him the post of Leipzig Kantor. The cantatas BWV 127 and 159 were written for the same Sunday in subsequent years.

 

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