Bach - Motet Jesu, meine Freude BWV 227 - Prégardien | Netherlands Bach Society

The pleasure felt by modern people listening to a piece like 'Jesu, meine Freude', performed by the Netherlands Bach Society for All of Bach, may conflict with our ideas about death. Yet such a comforting, sometimes positively cheerful piece fitted perfectly in a Lutheran memorial service, which is where this motet would undoubtedly have been sung. But whose funeral it concerns remains a mystery.
Recorded for the project All of Bach on 28th February 2019 at Grote Kerk, Alkmaar. If you want to help us complete All of Bach, please subscribe to our channel bit.ly/2vhCeFB and consider donating bit.ly/2uZuMj5.
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Christoph Prégardien, conductor