Johann Sebastian Bach, the composer, probed the human heart with great psychological depth, like an opera composer, expressing human passions from love's tenderness to the terror of death.
Instruments
The organ used for this recording is an André Silbermann organ from 1718, located in the Sainte Aurélie Church in Strasbourg, France, and is the most Germanic of the surviving Silbermann organs.
Instruments
The organ in the Sainte Aurélie Church is tuned to 460 Hz, which precisely matches the pitch Johann Sebastian Bach used in Weimar and Leipzig.
Composition History
The chorale prelude 'Erbarm' dich mein' BWV 721, long attributed to Bach, is likely a free adaptation of a soprano aria by Ludwig Busbetzki, an organist in Tallinn and a pupil of Buxtehude.
Composer's Artistic Vision
For Bach, the prospect of death was not a source of anguish but a prelude to eternal life, which could only be looked forward to with joy.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Bach often assigned the tenor voice a dual role: representing both the sinner burdened by faults and the hope for redemption.
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