Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227. Johann Sebastian Bach. Netherlands Chamber Choir. Peter Dijkstra

Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227. Johann Sebastian Bach. Netherlands Chamber Choir. Peter Dijkstra, conductor 00:00 1. Jesu, meine Freude 01:13 2. Es ist nun nichts Verdammliches 03:57 3. Unter deinen Schirmen 05:07 4. Denn das Gesetz 06:04 5. Trotz dem alten Drachen 08:19 6. Ihr aber seid nicht fleischlich 10:54 7. Weg, weg mit allen Schätzen 11:55 8. So aber Christus in euch ist 13:48 9. Gute Nacht, o Wesen 17:51 10. So nun der Geist 19:14 11. Weicht, ihr Trauergeister Jesu, meine Freude (Jesus, my joy), BWV 227, is a motet by Johann Sebastian Bach. The longest and most musically complex of Bach's motets, it is set in eleven movements for up to five voices. It is named after the Lutheran hymn «Jesu, meine Freude» with words by Johann Franck, first published in 1653. The motet contains the six stanzas of the hymn in its odd-numbered movements. The hymn tune by Johann Crüger appears in all of these movements in different styles of chorale settings. The text of the motet's even-numbered movements is taken from the eighth chapter of the Epistle to the Romans, a passage that influenced key Lutheran teachings. The hymn, written in the first person with a focus on an emotional bond with Jesus, forms a contrasting expansion of the doctrinal biblical text. Bach set both texts alternating with and complementing each other, in a structure of symmetries on different layers. Bach's treatment of Crüger's melody ranges from four-part chorale harmonisations that begin and end the work...