J. S. Bach: BWV 226 "The Spirit helps" and BWV 229 "Come, Jesus, come"

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Bach cultivated the polyphonic vocal art of his ancestors, doubled with strings and winds, rather rarely, but then with artistic depth and creative mastery. As in the case of the motet BWV 226 composed in 1729 to mark the death of the school rector Ernesti, the occasion for this was probably almost always a prestigious mourning occasion in the context of St. Thomas's School and Leipzig's upper classes. While the astonishingly joyful "Geist" motet allows the music to "pray" powerfully in increasing vocal density instead of the dying word, "Komm, Jesu, komm" takes up a funeral aria composed by Bach's predecessor Johann Schelle as early as 1684, but transforms it into a much more modern musical language of elegiac consolation. With a reflection on the cantata text by Oliver Zimmer. Performers: Choir & Orchestra of the J. S. Bach Foundation Rudolf Lutz, conductor Program: 5.30 pm Musical-theological introduction to the work with Rudolf Lutz and Rev. Niklaus Peter 19.00 - approx. 20.30 hrs 1st concert performance Reflection 2nd concert performance Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.

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