EARLY MUSIC: De Nederlandse Bachvereniging presents a number of small scale works on texts from the Old Testament attributed to king Salomon. For many centuries, these ancient love songs inspired poets, painters and composers to create the most moving works of art. It is no surprise, therefore, that in 17th-century Germany also these sensuous texts surfaced in music, of which we’ll hear examples by Böhm, Buxtehude and J.C. Bach. The Centrepiece of this concert is Johann Christoph Bach’s nuptial cantata ‘Meine Freundin, du bist schön’.

Listen to the program:

GEORG BÖHM 1661-1733
Mein Freund ist mein
 

DIETRICH BUXTEHUDE 1637-1707
Drei schöne Dinge sind
 

JOHANN CHRISTOPH BACH 1642-1702
Meine Freundin, du bist schön
 

Soloists:
Johannette Zomer: soprano
Marcel Beekman: tenor
Bas Ramselaar: bass

DE NEDERLANDSE BACHVERENIGING
Amaryllis Dieltiens: soprano
Marc Chambers, Jean Sebastien Beauvais: alto
Kevin Skelton: tenor
Michiel Meijer: bass

Antoinette Lohmann, Pieter Affourtit: violin
John Wilson Meyer, Arjen de Graaf, Elisabeth Ingen Housz: viola
Lucia Swarts: cello
James Munro: contrabass
Matthias Später: theorbo
Pieter Dirksen, Siebe Henstra: organ, harpsichord

Jos van Veldhoven: conductor

Concert recorded during the Festival of Early Music, 2007 in the Domkerk, Utrecht