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Double-choir Motets

Two four-part choirs sing to each other in a question-and-answer session led by harpsichordist, conductor and composer Jörn Boyssen

  • 11/11
  • 13/11
Bach is the thread of a varied programme ranging from Lutheran chorales to J.S. Bach's jubilant, grand motet, Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied.
  • 08:00 PM - 09:00 PM
  • 11 Nov 2022 - 13 Nov 2022
  • Fentener van Vlissingenzaal (11 nov) en Pauluskerk Breukelen (13 nov)
During the Double-choir Motets project week, classical voice students spend a week exploring fugues, chorales and motets by J.S. Bach, several of his familiars, a pupil and two imitators. The result is two concerts that are old-fashioned in form but modern in execution.​

The programme includes double-choir motets but also single-choir music that plays with stereo and echo effects. Lower voices sing to higher voices and vice versa; polyphony and echo reinforce each other.

Absolute highlight is the performance of Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied; J.S. Bach's grand and jubilant double choral motet from 1727, a work about which, according to tradition, Mozart said, "A complete orchestra should be added to this". Not without reason; the three movements of this motet take the form of a concert in which fugues, chorales and arias artfully intertwine.

Concerts

Friday 11 November: 20.00 - 21.00 hrs.
HKU Utrechts Conservatorium, Fentener van Vlissingenzaal
Mariaplaats 27, Utrecht

Sunday 13 November (the Nov. 13 concert has unfortunately been canceled)
Pauluskerk Breukelen

Jörn Boyssen

Conducting Doubl-choir Motets is harpsichordist, conductor and composer Jörn Boysen, born in 1976 in Lûbeck, Germany. After studying at the Musikhochschule Lübeck, he went to the Netherlands where he studied with Tini Mathot and Ton Koopman. Boysen composed several orchestral, chamber and vocal works and music for harpsichord. In 2011, Boysen completed the first version of Bach's 1731 Marcus Passion. He re-composed all the missing recitatives, turba choruses and arias and was the first to consistently follow historical procedures when composing.

Programme

Johann Michael Bach (1648-1694)
Nun hab ich überwunden (4‘)

Johann Ludwig Bach (1677 - 1731)
Unsere Trübsal (6‘)

Johann Friedrich Doles (1715-1797)
Herzlich lieb hab ich dich (10‘)

Johann Adam Hiller (1728-1804)
Alles Fleisch ist wie Gras (8‘)

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied (16‘)

Johann Rolle (1716-1785)
Der Friede Gottes (4‘)