Singing and Chiming. Ancient and Baroque Sounds
Prelude / +Bach
Accademia del Piacere
Johanna Rose, viola da gamba tenor
Christoph Urbanetz, viola da gamba bass
Rami Alqhai, viola da gamba bass
Javier Núñez, organ
Fahmi Alqhai quinton and musical direction
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Coral «Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland», BWV 659
Coral «Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier», BWV 731
Coral «In dir ist Freude», BWV 615
Coral «In dulci jubilo», BWV 368
Coral «In dulci jubilo», BWV 751 (Johann Michael Bach, 1648-1694. Formerly attributed to J. S. Bach)
Counterpoint I & Canon per augmentationem in contrario motu (from The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080)
Prelude, BWV 700
Fughetta «Von Himmel hoch, da komm ich her», BWV 701
Canone alla Settima (Variación III) (de Variaciones canónicas, BWV 769)
Movement from Magnificat, BWV 243a
Coral «Ich ruf' zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ», BWV 639
Counterpoint VIII & IV (de El arte de la fuga, BWV 1080)
Trio in G minor, BWV 584
Coral «Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme», BWV 645
Concert without intermission
In dulci jubilo
Consolidated for years as one of the leading Spanish early music ensembles in the international scene, the Accademia del Piacere arrives in Granada led by its founder, the Sevillian Fahmi Alqhai, in one of its most essential formats, the viol consort, and they do so to face an intense Bachian program. This recital is designed around the world of the Lutheran choral music, which also includes some counterpoints from The Art of Fugue and other pieces originally created for the organ. In all of them, poured into the suggestive timbral world of the violas da gamba, Bach's genius is expressed in that combination of rigorous contrapuntal science and moving emotional capacity that has turned his music into an authentic symbol of Western civilization.
