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BACH Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme BWV 645 – Organ & Laser – Christoph Bull live @ FCCLA
· 02.12.2023 · 20:55:27 ··· Samstag ⭐ 0 🎬 0
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A note from Christoph:
I like Bach's "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme" (literally translated: "Wake up, the voice calls us") kicking off the Advent Season.
This is from my first concert as organist-in-residence at First Congregational Church of Los Angeles a mere ten+ years ago on October 18, 2013. I performed the piece during a concert that featured Choir, Instrumentalists and Laser as part of that year's Bach Festival.
I had lots of fun collaborating with Tim Anderson and his Nu-Salt Laser team on this and other occasions.
BWV 645 is the first Chorale in Bach's set of six known as the Schübler Chorales. They were published towards the end of his life and are named after the publisher, Johann Georg Schübler.
Bach is part of a long tradition of composers transcribing works written for other instruments and/or singers for organ. His organ and harpsichord transcriptions include works by Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar, Antonio Vivaldi and various other Italian composers.
In the case of this piece, Bach transcribed a movement from one of his own cantatas, namely the fourth movement, "Zion hört die Wächter singen" ("Zion hears the watchmen sing"), from BWV 140 'Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme' (known as 'Sleepers, Wake!').
In the cantata, the Chorale melody is sung by the Tenors, in the organ transcription it is played by the left hand. The right hand takes the Violins' catchy unison line and the Pedal represents the Basso Continuo.
I've played this piece at various tempos. For this concert I chose a laid back approach, like waking up somebody gently from a deep sleep. On other occasions I give people a chipper "Hey, wake up quickly!" :)
We didn't have the same audio recording capacities back then that we have now, so the camera audio has to suffice for this one.
Wishing you a good season in a state of awakeness and joy!
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