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The opening of Komm, Jesu, komm entices. The antiphonal pleas are so lovingly shaped and delectably blended it’s impossible not to surrender. But does beauty of sound and ‘finish’ become an end... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 29th Dec 2017
Catalogue No: BIS2251
Label: BIS
Length: 67 minutes

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Bach, J S: Motet BWV229 'Komm, Jesu, komm!'

Work length8:23

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The Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Ensemble Allegria
Grete Pedersen
Recorded: June 2016
Recording Venue: Ris Kirke, Oslo, Norway

I. Komm, Jesu, komm

Track length6:53

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II. Drum schließ ich mich in deine Hände

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Bach, J S: Motet BWV228 'Fürchte dich nicht'

Work length8:10

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The Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Ensemble Allegria
Grete Pedersen

Bach, J S: Motet BWV226 'Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf'

Work length7:24

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The Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Ensemble Allegria
Grete Pedersen
Recorded: June 2016
Recording Venue: Ris Kirke, Oslo, Norway

I. Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf

Track length3:19

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II. Der aber die Herzen forschet

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III. Du heilige Brunst, süßer Trost

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Bach, J S: Motet BWV227 'Jesu, meine Freude'

Work length20:37

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Ditte Marie Bræin (soprano), Berit Norbakken Solset (soprano), Daniel Carlsson (alto), Tim Lawrence (tenor), Harvor F. Melien (bass), Magnhild Korsvik (soprano), Masashi Tsuji (tenor)
The Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Ensemble Allegria
Grete Pedersen
Recorded: February 2015
Recording Venue: Ris Kirke, Oslo, Norway

I. Jesu, meine Freude

Track length1:12

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II. Es ist nun nichts Verdammliches an denen

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III. Unter deinen Schirmen

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IV. Denn das Gesetz des Geistes

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V. Trotz dem alten Drachen

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VI. Ihr aber seid nicht fleischlich

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VII. Weg mit allen Schätzen

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VIII. So aber Christus in euch ist

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IX. Gute Nacht, o Wesen

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X. So nun der Geist

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XI. Weicht, ihr Trauergeister

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Bach, J S: Motet BWV230 'Lobet den Herrn alle Heiden'

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The Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Ensemble Allegria
Grete Pedersen

Bach, J S: Motet BWV118 'O Jesu Christ, mein Lebens Licht'

Work length4:55

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The Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Ensemble Allegria
Grete Pedersen

Bach, J S: Motet BWV225 'Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied'

Work length12:11

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Ditte Marie Bræin (soprano), Magnhild Korsvik (soprano), Mari Askvik (alto), Masashi Tsuji (tenor), Olle Holmgren (bass)
The Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Ensemble Allegria
Grete Pedersen
Recorded: February 2017
Recording Venue: Ris Kirke, Oslo, Norway

I. Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied

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II. Wie sich ein Vater erbarmet

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III. Lobet den Herrn in seinen Taten

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Bach's motets are surrounded by much uncertainty. To begin with, we do not know how many he actually composed, as some have been lost while others have been wrongly attributed to him. Although several of the motets were written for funerals, it is also uncertain if they were actually performed during church services: as a genre, the motet was established as early as the 13th century and by Bach's time it was considered to be old-fashioned and backward-looking.

Even so, the motets are the only vocal works by Bach that have an unbroken performance tradition until the present time, which may serve as testimony to the powerful response that they induce in listeners and performers alike. They were originally believed to have been composed for choir a cappella, but it is now thought that Bach himself may have performed them either a cappella or with instruments doubling the vocal parts and with basso continuo. For this recording, Grete Pedersen has opted for variety, performing four of the works with the support of the instrumentalists of Ensemble Allegria, and the remaining three with organ continuo. As on their previous, highly acclaimed releases on BIS, the Norwegian Soloists’ Choir shine in what surely is the absolute core repertoire for mixed choir.

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April 2018

The opening of Komm, Jesu, komm entices. The antiphonal pleas are so lovingly shaped and delectably blended it’s impossible not to surrender. But does beauty of sound and ‘finish’ become an end in itself?...A real tour de force!

March 2018

This is an outstanding disc of outstanding music. They get to the heart of these magnificent works in what feels a completely natural way, without any of the sense of over-interpretation that can detract. In addition to the standard six motets, Pedersen includes O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht (BWV 118), in which Ensemble Allegria’s oboes find an appropriately mournful yet sinuous tone.

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