Bach Spering

New recording of Christoph Spering's highly acclaimed Bach recordings. An album filled to the brim with important sacred works by Johann Sebastian Bach such as "Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan", "Das neugeborne Kindelein", "Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele" and many more!

The multi-award-winning Christoph Spering and his New Orchestra and Chorus Musicus Köln are devoting another instalment to Johann Sebastian Bach's cantatas from 1724 / 25. These cantatas were almost exclusively new compositions by Bach and are characterised by their particular originality and variety of form.

Die Aufnahmen von Bach-Kantaten mit Christoph Spering und seinen Ensembles Chorus Musicus Köln und Das Neue Orchester für Deutsche Harmonia Mundi erhielten weltweit sehr gute Besprechungen.

Die Aufnahmen von Bach-Kantaten mit Christoph Spering und seinen Ensembles Chorus Musicus Köln und Das Neue Orchester für Deutsche Harmonia Mundi erhielten weltweit sehr gute Besprechungen.

"It has to be this concise, dynamic and progressive! Spering's … spering's practical performance considerations prove (once again) to be completely convincing in this recording", FONO FORUM praised one of the four previous releases of Bach cantatas by Bach expert Christoph Spering with his Chorus Musicus Köln and Das neue Orchester. Now Vol. 5, a triple album, completes Spering's universally acclaimed complete recording of the special cantata year 1724 / 25. The cantata "Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern", which gives the album its title, was fittingly also the cantata that ended Bach's cycle of choral cantatas.

"It has to be this concise, dynamic and progressive! Spering's … spering's practical performance considerations prove (once again) to be completely convincing in this recording", FONO FORUM praised one of the four previous releases of Bach cantatas by Bach expert Christoph Spering with his Chorus Musicus Köln and Das neue Orchester. Now Vol. 5, a triple album, completes Spering's universally acclaimed complete recording of the special cantata year 1724 / 25. The cantata "Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern", which gives the album its title, was fittingly also the cantata that ended Bach's cycle of choral cantatas.

This revealing project deals exclusively with Bach's well-known cantata BWV 80, 'Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott', in its various versions and revisions, both by JSB and by his son Wilhelm Friedemann. Bach originally wrote his earliest version (BWV 80a) of a Reformation celebration cantata, based on Luther's famous chorale, in 1715, and subsequently reworked this around 1724 (BWV 80b); nothing has survived of the first version, and only a couple of fragments of the second, which are recorded here. Then, between 1728 and 1731, Bach rewrote and extended the work to produce the cantata which we know today as BWV 80 and which, of course, is included in this recording.

Die Aufnahmen von Bach-Kantaten mit Christoph Spering und seinen Ensembles Chorus Musicus Köln und Das Neue Orchester für Deutsche Harmonia Mundi erhielten weltweit sehr gute Besprechungen. Die Aufnahme aller Bach’schen Lutherkantaten zum Reformationsjahr 2017 wurde sogar mit einem ECHO Klassik ausgezeichnet: »Es ist eine in vielen Facetten neuartige und stets gut überlegte Produktion geworden.«, »Spering wirbt durch unaufdringliches Understatement umso eindringlicher für diese Stücke.« schrieb die Presse.

Brand new recording of all Luther cantatas composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. 2017 marks the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. Half a millennium ago, on October 31, 1517, Martin Luther launched this movement by posting his 95 theses on the door of Wittenberg’s Castle Church. Two centuries later, inspired by Luther’s words, & fully in the spirit of the reformer’s aim of spreading his theories via hymns, Johann Sebastian Bach composed what is probably the most significant body of cantatas based on Luther’s texts.