Altnickol & Bach: Bach's Family Choral Motets

Listen on Presto Music. Free thirty day trial. Find out more.

The motets by Johann Christoph Altnickol (1720–1759) featured here are considerably more florid in style than J. C. F. Bach’s and have more harmonic variety. These performances employ female... — Fanfare, January/February 2020 More…

Release Date: 28th Jun 2019
Catalogue No: HC18014
Label: Hänssler
Length: 56 minutes

International Classical Music Awards

2019

Nominee - Choral
Opus Klassik Awards

2020

Nominee - Conductor of the Year

Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days

Early Music - up to 35% off selected titles

Special offer ends: 04/06/2024

Bach, J C F: Ich lieg und schlafe ganz mit Frieden

Work length13:25

$3.00

$3.85

$5.25

Sonntraud Engels-Benz (organ)
Kammerchor Stuttgart
Frieder Bernius

Ich lieg und schlafe ganz mit Frieden, Wf XV:1

Track length13:25

$3.00

$3.85

$5.25

Bach, J C F: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (Carus - Motette für vierstimmigen Chor und Orgel ad libitum)

Work length15:11

$3.00

$3.90

$5.25

Sonntraud Engels-Benz (organ)
Kammerchor Stuttgart
Frieder Bernius

Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, Wf XV:2: I. Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme

Track length6:19

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, Wf XV:2: II. Zion hört die Waechter singen

Track length4:19

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, Wf XV:2: III. Gloria sei dir gesungen

Track length4:33

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Altnickol: Befiel du deine Wege

Work length21:02

$12.00

$15.60

$21.00

Sonntraud Engels-Benz (organ)
Kammerchor Stuttgart
Frieder Bernius

Befiel du deine Wege: No. 1, Befiel du deine Wege

Track length1:24

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Befiel du deine Wege: No. 2, Dem Herren musst du trauen

Track length3:15

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Befiel du deine Wege: No. 3, Dein ewge Treu und Gnaden

Track length1:06

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Befiel du deine Wege: No. 4, Weg hast du allerwegen

Track length1:55

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Befiel du deine Wege: No. 5, Und ob gleich alle Teufel

Track length1:53

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Befiel du deine Wege: No. 6, Hoff, hoff, o du arme Seele

Track length2:51

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Befiel du deine Wege: No. 7, Auf, auf, gib deinem Schmerze

Track length1:31

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Befiel du deine Wege: No. 8, Ihn, ihn lass tun und walten

Track length1:27

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Befiel du deine Wege: No. 9, Er wird zar eine Weile

Track length1:00

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Befiel du deine Wege: No. 10, Wird's aber sich befinden

Track length0:37

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Befiel du deine Wege: No. 11, Wohl dir, wohl dir du Kind der Treue

Track length1:21

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Befiel du deine Wege: No. 12, Mach End, o Herr, mach Ende

Track length2:42

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Altnickol: Nun danket alle Gott BWV Anh. 164 (Carus)

Work length6:30

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Sonntraud Engels-Benz (organ)
Kammerchor Stuttgart
Frieder Bernius

Nun danket alle Gott

Track length6:30

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

About
Reviews
Explore

About

Several of Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach´s, (called the “Bückeburg Bach”) liturgical works benefited from choral writing in cantatas, passions and oratorios by his father Johann Sebastian; at times, these even appear in prominent positions, as in the motet on the familiar hymn by Otto Nicolai (1566–1608) “Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme” (BR-JCFB H 101) with its elaborate counterpoint. The four-part chorale “Gloria sei dir gesungen” at the end of the work is taken from his father’s cantata of the same name (BWV 140). No specific occasion for the motet’s composition is known, and the work can be only approximately dated to the mid-1780s. Many passages written to show off the singer’s virtuosity are in the direct tradition of his father, who often gave his vocal writing an instrumental treatment – in accordance with his conviction that “everything must be possible”. The singers often found that this approach to composition tested them to the limit of their powers. We do not know the extent of Altnickol’s musical output. Very few of his compositions have survived. Apart from some keyboard works, a ricercare and the G minor harpsichord concerto, there are two Sanctus settings, two festival cantatas and the two chorale motets selected for the present recording, “Befiehl du deine Wege” and “Nun danket alle Gott”. Bach had testified to his pupil’s “quite special facility in Composition”. 1749 Altnickol married Bach´s daughter Elisabeth Juliane Friederica.

Reviews

January/February 2020

The motets by Johann Christoph Altnickol (1720–1759) featured here are considerably more florid in style than J. C. F. Bach’s and have more harmonic variety. These performances employ female rather than boy sopranos and include organ continuo on this occasion. The singing throughout is smooth, articulate, precise, and in tune.

September 2019

Reduced to forces of 7.7.5.5, Bernius’s ensemble lives up to its own standards of excellence with splendidly fresh and vivid singing that makes its rivals on record sound tentative or unwieldy by comparison.

June 2019

these performances of sacred motets are both enjoyable and entirely satisfying.

Offer,Altnickol & Bach: Bach's Family Choral Motets

CD

Downloads

Contents

Download queue