IDAGIO | Beloved & Beautiful - The Netherlands Bach Society Performs Böhm, J.C. Bach, Schütz, & J.S. Bach 723385273080

Featuring

Jos van Veldhoven
Johannette Zomer
Marcel Beekman
Stephan MacLeod
Harry van der Kamp
De Nederlandse Bachvereniging

Georg Böhm
Johann Christoph Bach
Heinrich Schütz
Johann Sebastian Bach

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Performer Biography

Jos van Veldhoven has been the artistic director of The Netherlands Bach Society since 1983 and founded the Utrechts Barok Consort in 1976.

Historical Context

The texts for the pieces on this album are derived from the 'Song of Songs', a collection of love songs from the Old Testament that has inspired artists for centuries.

Performer Biography

The Netherlands Bach Society, founded in 1921, is the oldest Early Music ensemble in the Netherlands, and possibly in the world.

Compositional Technique

Johann Christoph Bach's wedding cantata, Meine Freundin, du bist schön, includes an 'inexhaustible' ciacona with 66 variations for soprano and strings.

Composer Biography

Johann Christoph Bach, a great-uncle of Johann Sebastian Bach, was considered 'the great and expressive composer' within the Bach family.

Composer Biography

Georg Böhm, an organist in Lüneburg, was explicitly referred to as Johann Sebastian Bach's 'teacher' by Bach's son, Carl Philipp Emanuel.

Composition History

Johann Sebastian Bach's cantata Der Herr denket an uns (BWV 196) is a 'transitional' work, blending 17th-century forms with emerging Italian elements.