Repertoire
BACH: Lobet den Herrn alle Heiden for 4 voices, BWV 230; Komm Jesu Komm for 8 voices, BWV 229; Jesu meine Freude for 5 voices, BWV 227; Komm, Tod du Schlafes Bruder, BWV 56-5 (Verses 1 and 2); Aria Vergiss mein nicht, mein allerliebster Gott, BWV 505; Ich lasse dich nicht, du segnest mich denn for 8 voices, BWV Anh. 159; Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf for 8 voices, BWV 226; Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied for 8 voices, BWV 225
GABRIELI: Jubilate deo for 8 voices
HASSLER: Cantate Domino for 12 voices
BERTOLUSI: Osculetor meo for 7 voices
Artists
Ensemble Pygmalion
Raphaël Pichon, conductor
Program
Ensemble Pygmalion, one of the best Early Music groups in Europe, will perform six Johann Sebastian Bach motets and vocal, liturgical works for various voices.Ensemble Pygmalion is one of the best Early Music groups in Europe. Consisting of a choir and an orchestra of period instruments, it was born in 2006 by Raphaël Pichon from a desire to perform a broad repertoire of historically-informed works ranging from Schütz, Rameau and Bach to Gluck, Mendelssohn and Brahms. Ensemble Pygmalion is in residence at the Opéra National de Bordeaux and appears regularly at leading venues in France and central Europe. Its recordings for labels such as Alpha, Harmonia Mundi and Erato have been favourably received by specialist press across Europe. In the concert presented at L’Auditori, Ensemble Pygmalion will perform six motets by Johann Sebastian Bach and vocal, liturgical works for various voices. Even though the date the motets were composed is unknown, the majority were written during Bach’s Leipzig period and constitute one of the major landmarks in choral polyphony of the Baroque period. When Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart visited Leipzig in 1789 he heard the motet Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied and was impressed by its beauty and perfect construction.
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