Netherlands Bach Society | Bach - An Wasserflüssen Babylon BWV 653 - Van Doeselaar | Netherlands Bach Society @bach | Uploaded 2 months ago | Updated 4 hours ago
*Please note: this is an improved version of an earlier release.
The chorale 'An Wasserflüssen Babylon', performed by Leo van Doeselaar for All of Bach, describes the desperate situation of the Israelites in exile. Many composers in the seventeenth century made an arrangement of it, with the Hamburg organist Adam Reincken as the absolute champion. As a fifteen-year-old, Bach copied this version down and undoubtedly studied it well. But when he made his own arrangement ten years later, he did not follow Reincken’s example. Instead of an ingenious but somewhat frivolous fantasy, as Reincken made, he chose to create a compact, sombre chorale prelude.
For more information on BWV 653 and credits of this production go to https://www.bachvereniging.nl/en/bwv/bwv-653/
For the interview with organist Leo van Doeselaar on 'An Wasserflüssen Babylon' go to youtu.be/RNYKo3GnEkM
Recorded for the project All of Bach on October 8th 2013 at St Martin's Church, Groningen. If you want to help us complete All of Bach, please subscribe to our channel bit.ly/2vhCeFB and consider donating bit.ly/3J5uprM.
All of Bach is a project of the Netherlands Bach Society, with the aim to perform and record all of Bach's works and share them online with the world for free. Visit our online treasury for more videos and background material on https://www.bachvereniging.nl/en/allofbach. For concert dates and tickets go to https://www.bachvereniging.nl/en/concerts.
Leo van Doeselaar, organ
Instrument: Arp Schnitger, 1692
*Please note: this is an improved version of an earlier release.
The chorale 'An Wasserflüssen Babylon', performed by Leo van Doeselaar for All of Bach, describes the desperate situation of the Israelites in exile. Many composers in the seventeenth century made an arrangement of it, with the Hamburg organist Adam Reincken as the absolute champion. As a fifteen-year-old, Bach copied this version down and undoubtedly studied it well. But when he made his own arrangement ten years later, he did not follow Reincken’s example. Instead of an ingenious but somewhat frivolous fantasy, as Reincken made, he chose to create a compact, sombre chorale prelude.
For more information on BWV 653 and credits of this production go to https://www.bachvereniging.nl/en/bwv/bwv-653/
For the interview with organist Leo van Doeselaar on 'An Wasserflüssen Babylon' go to youtu.be/RNYKo3GnEkM
Recorded for the project All of Bach on October 8th 2013 at St Martin's Church, Groningen. If you want to help us complete All of Bach, please subscribe to our channel bit.ly/2vhCeFB and consider donating bit.ly/3J5uprM.
All of Bach is a project of the Netherlands Bach Society, with the aim to perform and record all of Bach's works and share them online with the world for free. Visit our online treasury for more videos and background material on https://www.bachvereniging.nl/en/allofbach. For concert dates and tickets go to https://www.bachvereniging.nl/en/concerts.
Leo van Doeselaar, organ
Instrument: Arp Schnitger, 1692
