Netherlands Bach Society | Bach - Komm, süsser Tod, komm selge Ruh! BWV 478 - Daniels | Netherlands Bach Society @bach | Uploaded 1 year ago | Updated 1 hour ago
In this sacred song, the person at prayer begs five times for death. Five times, it seems they can already feel the blessed peace of paradise. They can barely wait to close their eyes for the last time, when the black world will make way for the blue of the heavens. This notion is deeply embedded in the Christian faith: on earth, hard labour awaits – Jesus made the ultimate sacrifice with his redeeming death – but to die is gain, as Paul said in his epistle to the Philippians.
Recorded for the project All of Bach on 12 May 2018 at Bartolotti House, Amsterdam. This recording was made possible by the support of Stichting Elise Mathilde Fonds. If you want to help us complete All of Bach, please subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/2vhCeFB and consider donating http://bit.ly/2uZuMj5.
For the interview with tenor and organist tenor Charles Daniels and organist Menno van Delft on the Musicalisches Gesangbuch Schemelli go to youtu.be/wY_oaauvWtk
For more information on BWV 478 and this production go to http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-478
All of Bach is a project of the Netherlands Bach Society / Nederlandse Bachvereniging, offering high-quality film recordings of the works by Johann Sebastian Bach, performed by the Netherlands Bach Society and its guest musicians. Visit our free online treasury for more videos and background material http://allofbach.com/en/. For concert dates and further information go to https://www.bachvereniging.nl/nederlandse-bachvereniging.
Netherlands Bach Society
Charles Daniels, tenor
Mieneke van der Velden, viola da gamba
Menno van Delft, organ
In this sacred song, the person at prayer begs five times for death. Five times, it seems they can already feel the blessed peace of paradise. They can barely wait to close their eyes for the last time, when the black world will make way for the blue of the heavens. This notion is deeply embedded in the Christian faith: on earth, hard labour awaits – Jesus made the ultimate sacrifice with his redeeming death – but to die is gain, as Paul said in his epistle to the Philippians.
Recorded for the project All of Bach on 12 May 2018 at Bartolotti House, Amsterdam. This recording was made possible by the support of Stichting Elise Mathilde Fonds. If you want to help us complete All of Bach, please subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/2vhCeFB and consider donating http://bit.ly/2uZuMj5.
For the interview with tenor and organist tenor Charles Daniels and organist Menno van Delft on the Musicalisches Gesangbuch Schemelli go to youtu.be/wY_oaauvWtk
For more information on BWV 478 and this production go to http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-478
All of Bach is a project of the Netherlands Bach Society / Nederlandse Bachvereniging, offering high-quality film recordings of the works by Johann Sebastian Bach, performed by the Netherlands Bach Society and its guest musicians. Visit our free online treasury for more videos and background material http://allofbach.com/en/. For concert dates and further information go to https://www.bachvereniging.nl/nederlandse-bachvereniging.
Netherlands Bach Society
Charles Daniels, tenor
Mieneke van der Velden, viola da gamba
Menno van Delft, organ
