Inspired by Bach : All of Bach
"Intet nytt under solen", Bach er og har vært inspirasjonskilde for svært mange skapende mennesker - uavhengig av kunstform og sjanger. Albert Schweitzer mente alt fører til Bach, i forståelsen at Bach var et vendepunkt som alt pekte frem mot før, og alt i ettertid pekte tilbake til.
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Slik tenkte Netherlands Bach Society - og slik skrider dette enorme prosjektet fremover etter planen og ideen som ble sådd blant visjonære mennesker med handlingskraft og kompetanse i bøtter og spann. All of Bach er selve kjernen til å følge tanken ut også med nettsiden Bach in Town - som nærmer seg 350.000 lenkebesøk. All ære til det eksepsjonelle og kompetente miljøet i Netherlands Bach Society!!
In 2014, we started this project with the aim to perform and record all of Bach's works and share them online with the world for free.
All of Bach - 10 YEARS
The online treasure trove of the Netherlands Bach Society
The complete oeuvre of Johann Sebastian Bach is just a couple of mouse clicks away, wherever you are in the world. The All of Bach project is the online treasure trove of the Netherlands Bach Society. Music-lovers can enjoy recordings of large-scale concerts, intimate house concerts and virtuoso solo works.
Why All of Bach?
In the run-up to the centenary of the Netherlands Bach Society in the 2021-2022 season, we came up with the idea of performing and recording all of Bach's works. This allows us to share Bach's music with the whole world. Everyone can enjoy excellent audiovisual recordings of the highest quality on our website or on our YouTube channel.
Since the start of this unique project, more than 350 of the total of 1080 works by Johann Sebastian Bach have been performed and recorded in special ways. They include some remarkable highlights, such as the St Matthew Passion in the Grote Kerk, in Naarden, the Six Cello Suites at beautiful Amsterdam locations like the Concertgebouw and the Rijksmuseum, and Brandenburg Concerto no. 4 in Felix Meritis, in Amsterdam.
Informative texts, interesting facts and interviews with the performers provide a wealth of background information. All the works are performed by the Netherlands Bach Society and many guest musicians, and you can watch and listen to recordings of the complete works. In personal interviews, the musicians themselves talk about what touches them in the music or why they enjoy playing it so much. In order to keep close to Bach, the recordings are made at suitable venues, but we also look for unusual recording locations. Cantatas are filmed in a church, for instance, and chamber music at the musicians' homes or at special locations in the Netherlands.
Bach's Christmas Oratorio - Bridging the earthly and the heavenly | Netherlands Bach Society
In this background video on the Christmas Oratorio - recorded for All of Bach in the Geertekerk Utrecht and Grote Kerk Naarden - violinist and leader Shunske Sato takes the viewer back to eighteenth-century Germany and the Christmas traditions of the time. How does Bach's Christmas Oratorio fits within these traditions? Using musical examples, played on the spot by the ensemble, you will learn more about Bach's great Christmas work and Sato's take on it.
Bach's Family Reunion | Netherlands Bach Society
Bach, the serious church musician? Bach, the bohemian? In this small-scale, theatrical concert entitled 'Bach's Family Reunion', the Netherlands Bach Society shows the composer's many faces, plus those of colleagues around him, including Telemann. Shunske Sato, former artistic leader of the Bach Society: "We know so little about Bach, but the few things we do know - plus of course his music - give insight into the versatility of his character. Bach was not only the serious church musician, but also the man of improvisations and joyful folk songs. Bach was fiery and serious at the same time. He was a diligent man, he searched and dug deep, was always striving to become even better. For mediocrity, therefore, he had no patience. But he was also a bohemian, an epicurean, a lover of the then still exotic coffee. And of good food. An account exists of a trip to Halle; the dinner and tobacco costs exceeded the travel expenses. That is so significant."
All of Bach during corona times
How we sing Bach | Netherlands Bach Society
How do you sing Bach? Is there a right or best way? Five singers of the ensemble of the Netherlands Bach Society and conductor Bart van Reyn give their view on how to sing Bach in this short documentary for All of Bach.
What exactly is a countertenor and how do countertenors use their voice? Alex Potter discusses the falsetto technique, the use of male voices in Bach's time and the tradition of countertenors with The Netherlands Bach Society in this short documentary for All of Bach.
The Cantatas - The Heart of Bach´s Ouvre
Bach - Cantata Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme BWV 140
Van Veldhoven | Netherlands Bach Society
In cantata 'Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme', performed by the Netherlands Bach Society for All of Bach, everything revolves around the parable of the wise and foolish virgins. They wait throughout the night with burning lamps for the arrival of the bridegroom. Five of them have brought along extra oil to keep their lamp burning. The others run out of oil and go off to buy some more. The bridegroom arrives while they are away.