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Aryeh Oron wrote (May 18, 2025):
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This is a short video documentary about an important new project that features a fresh interpretation of vocal music written by JS Bach. The project is anchored by the men and boys of the Tölzer Knabenchor and their soloists.
Almost 300 hundred years ago, in1730, JS Bach wrote a memo (Entwurff ) describing the musical forces that should perform his sacred cantatas which were performed at church services in Leipzig, Germany. Bach was a civil servant whose job was to compose the music for the main service (“cantatas”); and train and prepare the choir and orchestra to perform his music every Sunday and on special Feast Days. According to Bach’s instructions the music was performed by a choir with three (or four) voices per part consisting of men singing tenor and bass lines, joined by pre-adolescent boys who carry the soprano and alto parts. The vocal soloists are drawn from the choir. Bach also declares in the Entwurff that the requisite number of instrumentalists to accompany the singers as 18, with up to 22 for the most festive works.
Remarkably, all these centuries later there doesn’t seem to be any documentation, and certainly no recording indicating that the Bach cantatas were ever performed exactly to the specifications he laid out so many centuries ago in his Entwurff. Until now.
This past March 2025 a Bach Entwurff Series of performances and recordings was launched featuring the remarkable Tölzer Knabenchor boy choir and soloists of Munich, joined by a professional tenor (Dovlet Nurgeldiyev) and bass (Samuel Hasselhorn). The singers are accompanied by the crack baroque orchestra Concerto München playing period- based instruments organized by organ recitalist Johannes Berger. This Entwurff project is led by the distinguished American conductor, Julian Wachner.
Featured are cantatas BWV 8-BWV 11-BWV 78 and the solo soprano cantata BWV 51. CD and audio streaming will debut in October on the NAXOS (US) and Perfect-Noise (EU and Asia) labels. Concert videos will be excerpted on Concerto Vocale Presents channels and video streaming services. |
