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. Netherlands Bach Society Christoph Prégardien, conductor