J.S. Bach: Magnificat, BWV 243 - Helmschrott: Lumen Concerto de Bassus & Franz Hauk

• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750): Magnificat in D Major, BWV 243:
• 1 Magnificat in D Major, BWV 243: I. Magnificat 02:56
• 2 Magnificat in D Major, BWV 243: II. Et exultavit spiritus meus 02:19
• 3 Magnificat in D Major, BWV 243: III. Quia respexit humilitatem 02:12
• 4 Magnificat in D Major, BWV 243: IV. Omnes generationes 01:15
• 5 Magnificat in D Major, BWV 243: V. Quia fecit mihi magna 01:54
• 6 Magnificat in D Major, BWV 243: VI. Et misericordia 02:55
• 7 Magnificat in D Major, BWV 243: VII. Fecit potentiam 01:53
• 8 Magnificat in D Major, BWV 243: VIII. Deposuit potentes 01:53
• 9 Magnificat in D Major, BWV 243: IX. Esurientes implevit bonis 02:37
• 10 Magnificat in D Major, BWV 243: X. Suscepit Israel 01:37
• 11 Magnificat in D Major, BWV 243: XI. Sicut locutus est 01:27
• 12 Magnificat in D Major, BWV 243: XII. Gloria Patri 01:56
• Robert M. Helmschrott (b. 1938): Lumen:
• 13 Lumen: Pt. 1, Tempus praeteritum 13:18
• 14 Lumen: Pt. 2, Tempus praesens 10:25
• 15 Lumen: Pt. 3, Tempus posterum 16:59
• Total Runtime 01:05:36

Info for J.S. Bach: Magnificat, BWV 243 - Helmschrott: Lumen

Shortly after taking up the position of Thomaskantor in Leipzig in 1723, Bach wrote a Magnificat in E flat major for performance at Christmas. Around a decade later he revised the work, transposing it down to D major and making it more concise. Utilizing a Biblical text, the piece is suffused with a series of memorable arias and choruses and orchestrated with spectacular grandeur. Lumen is a contemporary musical dialogue that urges empathy between the three Abrahamic religions. Translating the oratorio form into a ‘unity of diversity,’ Robert M. Helmschrott has converted the poetry of the Old and New Testaments, the Torah and Qur’an into an interfaith ‘language of sounds and singing.’

Simon Mayr Chorus
Concerto de Bassus
Franz Hau, direction

Dr. Franz Hauk
Born in Neuburg an der Donau in 1955, Franz Hauk studied church and school music, with piano and organ, at the Munich Musikhochschule and in Salzburg. In 1988 he took his doctorate with a thesis on church music in Munich at the beginning of the 19th century. Since 1982 he has served as organist at Ingolstadt Minster, and since 1995 also as choirmaster.

He has given concerts in Europe and the United States and made a number of recordings. Since October 2002 he has taught in the historical performance and church music department of the Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Munich. He founded the Simon Mayr Chorus in 2003.

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