Bach’s New Year: Exploring BWV 41 "Jesu, nun sei gepreiset" | Bach Factory
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Johann Sebastian Bach wrote his festive cantata BWV 41, "Jesu, nun sei gepreiset" (Jesus, be now exalted) as a tribute to the old and the new year. The piece is a musical look back at Bach's chorale year of 1724/25 in Leipzig, but it also awakens hopeful sentiments for the future. In this episode of Bach Factory, Rudolf Lutz and Xoán Castiñeira explore the cantata's musical details and uncover its secrets.
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Contributors: Xoán Elías Castiñeira, Rudolf Lutz
Video: Samuel Lutz 
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This Bach Factory production is the “champagne” of the New Year. Rudolf Lutz and Xoen Castineira’s understanding of Bach’s works is encyclopedic - I daresay an encyclopedia inspired by Bach himself!
Thank you very much, Jeb! Indeed, Bach is our ultimate inspirator.
I enjoy every video you post. Bach is the greatest!
Thanks! From the beautiful SoCal!
A fugue perhaps, being a temporary flight from the expected, over time.
Love to see these wonderful talks on Bach cantatas! But I do wish the poor orchestral players could sit down to play. They look stressed and uncomfortable standing. It's nice to hear some original instruments, but surely they had chairs in Bach's day? Also, did they always wear black, as if it were a funeral? To me these are modern fads that could be dispensed with.
Thank you for your comments. Musicians performing with baroque ensembles very often stand, this is certainly a common practice as it was in the 18th century.
@@Bachstiftung In Bach's day, comfort and style were seen as incompatible. Discipline and good form were the demands, and this takes the personality out of the performance - the musicians were used to this discipline, and probably enjoyed it. Music was at court and in the church. Standing in assembly at school for an hour and singing hymns was enjoyable for me. I think being seated would bring self indulgence into it, and self indulgence can be unsatisfactory. It does not evoke our best effort
Brother Rudi, you are more articulate with Englisch than I auf Deutsch, but may I correct your glaring error, knowing full well that there are far more auf meiner Deutsch! God save the Monarch has 7 LINES but 2 verses. The second is less known, but goes something along the lines (addressing God Him/Herself [not actually limited by gender as we Menschen].. 'Thy choicest gifts in store (line 1) On her/him be pleased to pour (line 2) ??Long may they reign (line 3) Can't rember the rest.
(I find 'remember' sounds too much like the syllabic reduplication of the Greek perfect tense so i don't feel too bad eliminating that 'irrational'(?) reduplication, tho' im sure there's reason for it!) {God themself knows well that Englisch is so full of irregularity & inconsistency, that my amendment hardly makes it better or worse, but i take joy in my innovation or inveteration (inpalaiation from G(r)eek sounds better to my ears). We need go no further than -ough..... 8 versions of which i can only ever recall 7. I don't necessarily forget the same one each time...
That said I appreciate your vortraege about Bach's cantatas since i run a weekly (BE(a)CH BStudy on Thursday nights in Korea on Zoom. During c19, this was spelt Bitsch, but when my forebears first moved to the land down under between 1838 & 1876, the similarity to a female dog with an interpolated s led to many mispronunciations.
So the name was Anglicized around WW I at a time when many descendants of Germans also changed their spelling, indeed many of the late teenagers & others in their early 20's went to fight their 3rd cousins & more remotely connected Germans who remained in der Vaterland.
That & the residual mistrust of Germans that still exists here & there in trace amounts notwithstanding, I plan to return to the original spelling when next I renew my passport. Will probly start using the correct spelling a couple years before, Have actually used it already in the list of Choristers when we performed Haendels Messias last May.