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The 6 Bach Motets
Bachs motets are among the most perfect of all his works. Through their extraordinary complexity and density they make colossal demands of everyone who performs them, requiring stamina, exceptional virtuosity and sensitivity to the abrupt changes of mood and texture, as well as to the exact meaning of each word. With their skillful use of canon, fugue and counterpoint, the brilliant exploitation of double-choir sonorities and the tautness of their structural organization, each of them is challenging in its own way and endlessly fascinating. Above all they can touch the listener as well as the performer, revealing Bachs essentially compassionate nature, his dance-like joy in the praise of God and his total certitude in the contemplation of death.
-John Elliot Gardiner
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LocationSt. Ignatius of Antioch (View)
552 West End Avenue
New York, NY 10024
United States
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