SKU: HL.232725

ISBN 9788759880968.

Programme Note BENT SORENSEN - BENEDICTUS (c. 7' ) Benedictus makes the listener listen to the world through a veil of voices wrapped tightly around the listener. Listening to the world is listening inwardly - Think before you listen! Eighteen months ago I was on Gotland wandering among walls in the small streets, in the church, and I thought that it was actually a Benedictus place - the old Catholicism seen and heard through new Nordic eyes and ears. Benedictus can of course be performed in the church in Visby or in other similar places, but it does not need to be a church. I would suggest having it on a programme with spatial music rather than a traditional choralprogramme. EA, vocal, instrumental works where the sound comes from everywhere around. Bent Sorensen 2008.

SKU: BR.CHB-3539-02

ISBN 9790004404706. 7.5 x 10.5 inches.

Motets (BWV 118, 225-231) account for a rather small work group within the great number of sacred vocal works composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. Only six motets have survived; their most striking feature being their mostly double-chorus texture, often without a verifiable instrumental or continuo accompaniment. They were presumably written at the beginning of Bach's time in Leipzig, i.e. after 1723.The present work, Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden, is one of only two motets by Bach in which the entire text comes from the Bible, in this case the two verses of Psalm 117.Performance editions of all other sacred vocal works by Johann Sebastian Bach are also available at Breitkopf & Hartel.