Bach - Cantata Schwingt freudig euch empor BWV 36 - Van Veldhoven | Netherlands Bach Society

On 2 December 1731, a teacher at the St Thomas School would have looked up in surprise. In church, he suddenly heard the music that Bach wrote for his birthday six years earlier, as played here by the Netherlands Bach Society for All of Bach. The opening chorus was followed by a second surprise. The recitatives were replaced with new Advent chorales. This way, it was immediately clear that this was an Advent cantata. Everyone knew these familiar and popular church songs.

Recorded for the project All of Bach on November 30th 2013 at the Walloon Church, Amsterdam. If you want to help us complete All of Bach, please subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/2vhCeFB or consider donating http://bit.ly/2uZuMj5.

For the interview with conductor Jos van Veldhoven on 'Schwingt freudich euch empor' go to    • Van Veldhoven on Bach Cantata BWV 36 ...  
For the interview with organist Leo van Doeselaar on 'Schwingt freudich euch empor' go to    • Van Doeselaar on Bach Cantata BWV 36 ...  
For the interview with organist Pieter-Jan Belder and harpsichordist Siebe Henstra on 'Schwingt freudich euch empor' go to    • Belder and Henstra on Bach Cantata BW...  
For more information on BWV 36 and this production go to http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-36/

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Netherlands Bach Society
Jos van Veldhoven, conductor
Zsuzsi Tóth, soprano
Barnabás Hegyi, alto
Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
Peter Harvey, bass

0:00 Schwingt freudig (Chorus)
4:07 Nun komm (Chorale)
7:56 Die Liebe zieht (Aria)
13:32 Zwingt die Saiten (Chorale)
15:25 Willkommen (Aria)
19:14 Der du bist (Chorale)
21:10 Auch mit gedämpften (Aria)
30:05 Lob sei Gott (Chorale)