Bach - Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir BWV 686 - Van Doeselaar | Netherlands Bach Society

In the array of styles and techniques displayed by Bach in the third part of the Clavier-Übung, BWV 686 is the ultimate example of stile antico: the strict sixteenth-century ‘motet style’, grafted onto vocal music. There is no room here for frivolities. Within the space of ten bars, Bach envelops us in a sonorous six-part hair shirt – interwoven with successive parts of a chorale melody, and embroidered with plaintive motifs and moments of harmonic despair. Not only is this the only work where Bach wrote a six-part chorale arrangement for organ, but he also explicitly requests the ‘organo pleno’ (full organ) and even an exceptional  ‘pedale doppio’ (double pedal), where each foot plays its own part. It is hard to imagine a fuller atonement. For more information on BWV 552 and this production go to Recorded for the project All of Bach on September 15th 2020 at Freiberger Dom Sankt Marien, Freiberg, Germany. If you want to help us complete All of Bach, please sub