Good Morning!

01. October 2025 · Comments Off on Good Morning! · Categories: Listen · Tags: , , ,

Lea Desandre and Thomas Dunford always make my heart happy. Here you have Purcell’s “Now the night is chased away” from The Fairy Queen, with the Jupiter Ensemble, and singers Jess Dandy (contralto), Laurence Kilsby (tenor), and Alex Rosen (bass). What a sweet way to start the day, don’t you think?

Some Bach for You

01. July 2025 · Comments Off on Some Bach for You · Categories: BachTrac™, Listen · Tags: , , , ,

J. S. Bach: Et in Spiritum Sanctum
Orchester Wiener Akademie; dir. Johannes Hiemetsberger

Sunday Morning Music

24. March 2024 · Comments Off on Sunday Morning Music · Categories: Palm Sunday, Sunday Morning Music · Tags: , , , ,

Bach: Himmelskönig, sei willkommen (Cantata for Palm Sunday)
Stiffsbarock Stuttgart; Kay Johannsen, Conductor

1. Sinfonia
2. Coro “Himmelskönig, sei willkommen” 2:13
3. Recitativo (Christian Wagner, Bass) “Siehe, ich komme, im Buch ist von mir geschrieben” 5:59
4. Aria (Christian Wagner, Bass) “Starkes Lieben” 6:43
5. Aria (Elvira Bill, Alt) “Leget euch dem Heiland unter” 9:12
6. Aria (Philipp Nicklaus, Tenor) “Jesu, lass durch Wohl und Weh” 17:22
7. Choral “Jesu, lass durch deine Passion” 21:58
8. Coro “So lasset uns gehen in Salem der Freuden” 26:08

Sunday Morning Music

17. March 2024 · Comments Off on Sunday Morning Music · Categories: Sunday Morning Music · Tags: , , , ,

Bach: Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf (The Spirit helps us in our weakness)
RIAS Kammerchor; Akademie für Alte Musik; Hans-Christoph Rademann, Conductor

A Bit More Bach

09. April 2023 · Comments Off on A Bit More Bach · Categories: BachTrac™, Baroque · Tags: , , , ,

‘Gloria’ & ‘Et in terra pax’: Bach’s Mass in B Minor (VOCES8, Academy of Ancient Music)

Put that volume up!

On April 4th 2021 (Easter Day) VOCES8, Academy of Ancient Music (led by Rachel Podger), and a starry line up of soloists (Carolyn Sampson, Iestyn Davies, Jeremy Budd, Matthew Brook), presented Bach’s Mass in B minor, directed by Barnaby Smith.

Sunday Morning Music

19. February 2023 · Comments Off on Sunday Morning Music · Categories: Sunday Morning Music · Tags: , , ,

Heinrich Schütz: Der Herr ist mein Hirt (The Lord Is My Shepherd)
Dresdner Kammerchor & Barockorchester: Hans-Christoph Rademann, Director

Sunday Morning Music

17. April 2022 · Comments Off on Sunday Morning Music · Categories: BachTrac™, Easter, Sunday Morning Music · Tags: , , , , ,

Bach: Christ lag in Todes Banden

(If you’d like the translation go here.)

Kristine Bjånes, sopran
Ragnhild Wivestad Jansson, sopran
Silje Strand Blichfeldt, alt
Ola Kristoffer Øye, tenor
Andreas Wivestad Jansson, tenor/bass
Christian Holter, bass

Hilary Foster, fiolin
Julia Dibley, fiolin
Hans Gunnar Hagen, bratsj
Bodil Erdal, cello
Sigurd M. Øgaard, orgel

Knut Christian Jansson, dirigent/lyd og bilde

Some Bach for Your Evening

16. June 2020 · Comments Off on Some Bach for Your Evening · Categories: BachTrac™, Can't Stop the Music! · Tags: , ,

With a number of concertmasters from around the US. Isn’t it amazing what can be done these days? I’m grateful.

Bach Double Concerto in D minor, Largo

Saying Goodnight With Bach

07. April 2020 · Comments Off on Saying Goodnight With Bach · Categories: Can't Stop the Music!, CovidTimes · Tags: , , , ,

… because Bach is always good for the heart. As is cello. Here are New York Philharmonic cellists playing Bach’s Suite No. 1 for unaccompanied Cello. (No, they don’t play it together … each player takes a movement.)