Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts

Tonight at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 it’s a new series from the Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts. You’ll hear works by Johann Sebastian Bach and his son Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach recorded last June in St. Thomas Church, Leipzig, a place where JS Bach worked in his lifetime.

Thursday April 6: Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts (DWFC 2022-01)

Bach Father and Son: Leipzig Bach Festival, June 9 and 12, 2022

Performed by: St. Thomas Choir (2,3,4,5); Gewandhaus Orchestra (2,3,4,5); Conductor: Andreas Reize (2,3,4,5)

Soloist: Johannes Lang, organ (1); Hanna Zumsande, soprano (3,5); Daniel Johannsen, tenor (3,5);
Henryk Böhm, bass (3,5); Susanne Langner, alto (5); Sergey Malov, violin (6,7)

(1) Johann Sebastian Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D minor, "Dorian," BWV 538
(2) Johann Sebastian Bach: "Der Gerechte kommt um," BWV 1149
(3) Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: "Gott hat den Herrn auferwecket," Wq 244 (BR-CPEB F5)
(4) Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: "Heilig," Wq 218 (BR-CPEB Ef 3)
(5) Johann Sebastian Bach: "Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen" (Ascension Oratorio), BWV 11

(6) Johann Sebastian Bach: Improvisation with loop on a motif from Johann Sebastian Bach's Cello Suite in G major. Adagio from Violin Sonata No. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001
(7) Johann Sebastian Bach: Andante from Violin Sonata No. 2 in A minor, BWV 1003