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J.S. Bach

Dialogkantaten

with Michael Volle & Sophie Karthäuser

Works featured on the CD

Johann Sebastian Bach

  • Liebster Jesu, mein Verlangen BWV 32  

  • Ich geh und suche mit Verlangen BWV 49           

  • Selig ist der Mann BWV 57 

Although Bach wrote no operas, his dialogue cantatas - like his Passions - are works of the highest emotional power. Presented in the form of a dialogue, this special group of cantatas depicts an intimate exchange between the Christian soul (soprano) and Jesus Christ (bass). Martin Luther wrote that “faith unites the soul with Christ as a bride with her bridegroom,” thus drawing on the medieval idea of bridal mysticism. This idea finds its most intensely sensual - also musically sensual - expression in Bach’s cantata “Ich geh und suche mit Verlangen.”

Artists
Michael Volle, Bass (Words of Jesus)
Sophie Karthäuser, Soprano (Words of Christian Soul)
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Raphael Alpermann, Organ & Musical direction

Released on
harmonia mundi, 2018