Nystedt / J S Bach - Meins Lebens Licht
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Label: BIS
Cat No: BIS2184
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 30th October 2015
Contents
Works
Motet BWV118 'O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht'Motet BWV227 'Jesu, meine Freude'
Ave Maria for violin and mixed choir, op.110
Be not afraid, op.146
Immortal Bach (Komm, susser Tod, BWV478)
O Crux, op.79
Peace I leave with you, op.43 no.2
Artists
Maria Angelika Carlsen (violin)Norwegian Soloists’ Choir
Ensemble Allegria
Conductor
Grete PedersenWorks
Motet BWV118 'O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht'Motet BWV227 'Jesu, meine Freude'
Ave Maria for violin and mixed choir, op.110
Be not afraid, op.146
Immortal Bach (Komm, susser Tod, BWV478)
O Crux, op.79
Peace I leave with you, op.43 no.2
Artists
Maria Angelika Carlsen (violin)Norwegian Soloists’ Choir
Ensemble Allegria
Conductor
Grete PedersenAbout
This disc is the moving homage of the Norwegian Soloists’ Choir to the man who founded it in 1950 and remained its leader for 40 years. The choral conductor and composer Knut Nystedt passed away in December 2014, at the age of 99, and the disc may to some extent be regarded as an epitaph for him.
Alongside two Bach motets, the programme includes four works which span almost forty years of Nystedt’s long career, from Peace I leave with you, written in 1957 and still one of the composer’s most often performed works, to Be not afraid from 1995. These two motets, as well as O Crux (1977) are a cappella compositions, while the setting from 1986 of Ave Maria is something of a rarity, for solo violin and mixed choir.
The violin part is performed by Maria Angelika Carlsen, artistic leader of the Ensemble Allegria, a group of young Norwegian string players that join the choir in the two Bach motets, and also in the closing work on the disc: Immortal Bach. In this atmospheric piece, the composer has taken the first eight bars of Bach’s chorale 'Komm, süsser Tod', stretching the tempo of its melodies and harmonies to create an impression of timelessness and endlessness. Grete Pedersen, Nystedt's successor as artistic leader of the choir, provides the arrangement for strings and choir.
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