Bach & Macmillan: Motets and Sacred Songs (Live) Tenebrae & Nigel Short

• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750): Komm, Jesu, komm, BWV 229 (Live):
• 1 Bach: Komm, Jesu, komm, BWV 229 (Live) 08:23
• James MacMillan (b. 1959): Tenebrae Responsories (Live):
• 2 MacMillan: Tenebrae Responsories: I. Tenebrae factae sunt (Live) 05:48
• Johann Sebastian Bach:
• 3 Bach: Jesu, meine Freude (Live) 20:13
• James MacMillan: Miserere (Live)
• 4 MacMillan: Miserere (Live) 12:10
• Tenebrae Responsories (Live):
• 5 MacMillan: Tenebrae Responsories: II. Tradiderunt me (Live) 05:42
• 6 MacMillan: Tenebrae Responsories III: Jesum tradidit impius (Live) 08:23
• I Saw Eternity the Other Night (Live):
• 7 MacMillan: I Saw Eternity the Other Night (Live) 06:23
• Johann Sebastian Bach: Singet dem Herrn, BWV 225 (Live)
• 8 Bach: Singet dem Herrn, BWV 225 (Live) 12:25
• Total Runtime 01:19:27

Info for Bach & Macmillan: Motets and Sacred Songs (Live)

Tenebrae bring their trademark passion and precision to this live performance of music by J. S. Bach and Sir James MacMillan, recorded live at Snape Maltings in May 2023. Renowned for their technical difficulty, Bach's motets are pillars of the choral repertoire, requiring minute attention to detail as well as a full emotional range. Here, Tenebrae performs the three most well-known of the set, culminating in the joyful Singet dem Herrn. Like Bach, Sir James MacMillan has written much of his music for the church, and his settings of the Tenebrae responsories paint a vivid picture of the events of Holy Week. This album also features the premiere recording of I saw Eternity the other night, which MacMillan composed for Tenebrae in 2021 to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the London Bach Society.

Emma Walshe, soprano
Tenebrae
Nigel Short, direction

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