BACH'S EASTER CANTATAS
WELCOME, KING OF HEAVEN!
Music for Palm Sunday
Concerto Copenhagen welcomes Easter with a team of young singers who take us on a musical journey from melancholic dancing rhythms and sinful revelry to festive welcome music.
Easter is usually associated with Passion music, which describes Jesus' suffering and death. But in this concert, we will focus on the events that mark the beginning of Easter: Lent and Jesus' arrival in Jerusalem – namely Palm Sunday.
We must go back to the spring of 1714 in Weimar, where the barely 30-year-old Johann Sebastian Bach has been promoted to Kapellmeister and must demonstrate his abilities as a composer to the count, the court, and the congregation with the cantatas "Himmelskönig sei willkommen" and "Widerstehe doch der Sünde."
In "Widerstehe doch der Sünde," both musicians and audience must resist the temptations of sin in life here on earth. The music gives us a musical image of danger, sin, and what we must fight against in order to receive eternal life in heaven. But it also shows how tempting and easy it would be to surrender to something so appealing. "So it's not just ugly, but also fantastically beautiful at the same time – in a sensual and almost erotic way," is how Lars Ulrik Mortensen describes the music.
In "Himmelskönig sei willkommen" (Welcome, King of Heaven), we meet Jesus on his way into Jerusalem riding on a donkey. He is greeted by a crowd of people who welcome him with palm leaves and song. Like Palm Sunday, the cantata is festive and cheerful, with Maundy Thursday and Good Friday's suffering and death only faintly hinted at in the distance. It is an apt image of Jesus' humble yet dignified entry into Jerusalem.
The concert begins with Telemann's Overture Suite in A minor. In the spring of 1714, Telemann had just become godfather to J.S. Bach's newborn SUN, Carl Philipp Emanuel. Despite the dancing rhythms of the French style in the Overture Suite, it is as if the music never really becomes cheerful, but remains melancholic – as a reminder of what awaits on Maundy Thursday and Good Friday, and therefore fitting as an introduction not only to this concert, but also to Easter.
Concerto Copenhagen, conducted by Lars Ulrik Mortensen, is looking forward to playing
Easter together with a team of young, talented singers: soprano Anna Orlowicz Miilmann, countertenor Steffen Jespersen, tenor Mathias Monrad Møller, and bass Joakim Larsson.
WELCOME, KING OF HEAVEN!
Music for Palm Sunday
Concerto Copenhagen welcomes Easter with a team of young singers who take us on a musical journey from melancholic dancing rhythms and sinful revelry to festive welcome music.
Easter is usually associated with Passion music, which describes Jesus' suffering and death. But in this concert, we will focus on the events that mark the beginning of Easter: Lent and Jesus' arrival in Jerusalem – namely Palm Sunday.
We must go back to the spring of 1714 in Weimar, where the barely 30-year-old Johann Sebastian Bach has been promoted to Kapellmeister and must demonstrate his abilities as a composer to the count, the court, and the congregation with the cantatas "Himmelskönig sei willkommen" and "Widerstehe doch der Sünde."
In "Widerstehe doch der Sünde," both musicians and audience must resist the temptations of sin in life here on earth. The music gives us a musical image of danger, sin, and what we must fight against in order to receive eternal life in heaven. But it also shows how tempting and easy it would be to surrender to something so appealing. "So it's not just ugly, but also fantastically beautiful at the same time – in a sensual and almost erotic way," is how Lars Ulrik Mortensen describes the music.
In "Himmelskönig sei willkommen" (Welcome, King of Heaven), we meet Jesus on his way into Jerusalem riding on a donkey. He is greeted by a crowd of people who welcome him with palm leaves and song. Like Palm Sunday, the cantata is festive and cheerful, with Maundy Thursday and Good Friday's suffering and death only faintly hinted at in the distance. It is an apt image of Jesus' humble yet dignified entry into Jerusalem.
The concert begins with Telemann's Overture Suite in A minor. In the spring of 1714, Telemann had just become godfather to J.S. Bach's newborn SUN, Carl Philipp Emanuel. Despite the dancing rhythms of the French style in the Overture Suite, it is as if the music never really becomes cheerful, but remains melancholic – as a reminder of what awaits on Maundy Thursday and Good Friday, and therefore fitting as an introduction not only to this concert, but also to Easter.
Concerto Copenhagen, conducted by Lars Ulrik Mortensen, is looking forward to playing
Easter together with a team of young, talented singers: soprano Anna Orlowicz Miilmann, countertenor Steffen Jespersen, tenor Mathias Monrad Møller, and bass Joakim Larsson.
PROGRAM
G. P. Telemann: Overture Suite TWV 55:a2
J.S Bach: Widerstehe doch die Sünde, BWV 54
– Break-
J.S Bach: Heavenly King, welcome, BWV 182
CONCERTS
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WELCOME, KING OF HEAVEN!
Music for Palm Sunday
Concerto Copenhagen welcomes Easter with a team of young singers who take us on a musical journey from melancholic dancing rhythms and sinful revelry to festive welcome music.
Easter is usually associated with Passion music, which describes Jesus' suffering and death. But in this concert, we will focus on the events that mark the beginning of Easter: Lent and Jesus' arrival in Jerusalem – namely Palm Sunday.
We must go back to the spring of 1714 in Weimar, where the barely 30-year-old Johann Sebastian Bach has been promoted to Kapellmeister and must demonstrate his abilities as a composer to the count, the court, and the congregation with the cantatas "Himmelskönig sei willkommen" and "Widerstehe doch der Sünde."
In "Widerstehe doch der Sünde," both musicians and audience must resist the temptations of sin in life here on earth. The music gives us a musical image of danger, sin, and what we must fight against in order to receive eternal life in heaven. But it also shows how tempting and easy it would be to surrender to something so appealing. "So it's not just ugly, but also fantastically beautiful at the same time – in a sensual and almost erotic way," is how Lars Ulrik Mortensen describes the music.
In "Himmelskönig sei willkommen" (Welcome, King of Heaven), we meet Jesus on his way into Jerusalem riding on a donkey. He is greeted by a crowd of people who welcome him with palm leaves and song. Like Palm Sunday, the cantata is festive and cheerful, with Maundy Thursday and Good Friday's suffering and death only faintly hinted at in the distance. It is an apt image of Jesus' humble yet dignified entry into Jerusalem.
The concert begins with Telemann's Overture Suite in A minor. In the spring of 1714, Telemann had just become godfather to J.S. Bach's newborn SUN, Carl Philipp Emanuel. Despite the dancing rhythms of the French style in the Overture Suite, it is as if the music never really becomes cheerful, but remains melancholic – as a reminder of what awaits on Maundy Thursday and Good Friday, and therefore fitting as an introduction not only to this concert, but also to Easter.
Concerto Copenhagen, conducted by Lars Ulrik Mortensen, is looking forward to playing
Easter together with a team of young, talented singers: soprano Anna Orlowicz Miilmann, countertenor Steffen Jespersen, tenor Mathias Monrad Møller, and bass Joakim Larsson.
WELCOME, KING OF HEAVEN!
Music for Palm Sunday
Concerto Copenhagen welcomes Easter with a team of young singers who take us on a musical journey from melancholic dancing rhythms and sinful revelry to festive welcome music.
Easter is usually associated with Passion music, which describes Jesus' suffering and death. But in this concert, we will focus on the events that mark the beginning of Easter: Lent and Jesus' arrival in Jerusalem – namely Palm Sunday.
We must go back to the spring of 1714 in Weimar, where the barely 30-year-old Johann Sebastian Bach has been promoted to Kapellmeister and must demonstrate his abilities as a composer to the count, the court, and the congregation with the cantatas "Himmelskönig sei willkommen" and "Widerstehe doch der Sünde."
In "Widerstehe doch der Sünde," both musicians and audience must resist the temptations of sin in life here on earth. The music gives us a musical image of danger, sin, and what we must fight against in order to receive eternal life in heaven. But it also shows how tempting and easy it would be to surrender to something so appealing. "So it's not just ugly, but also fantastically beautiful at the same time – in a sensual and almost erotic way," is how Lars Ulrik Mortensen describes the music.
In "Himmelskönig sei willkommen" (Welcome, King of Heaven), we meet Jesus on his way into Jerusalem riding on a donkey. He is greeted by a crowd of people who welcome him with palm leaves and song. Like Palm Sunday, the cantata is festive and cheerful, with Maundy Thursday and Good Friday's suffering and death only faintly hinted at in the distance. It is an apt image of Jesus' humble yet dignified entry into Jerusalem.
The concert begins with Telemann's Overture Suite in A minor. In the spring of 1714, Telemann had just become godfather to J.S. Bach's newborn SUN, Carl Philipp Emanuel. Despite the dancing rhythms of the French style in the Overture Suite, it is as if the music never really becomes cheerful, but remains melancholic – as a reminder of what awaits on Maundy Thursday and Good Friday, and therefore fitting as an introduction not only to this concert, but also to Easter.
Concerto Copenhagen, conducted by Lars Ulrik Mortensen, is looking forward to playing
Easter together with a team of young, talented singers: soprano Anna Orlowicz Miilmann, countertenor Steffen Jespersen, tenor Mathias Monrad Møller, and bass Joakim Larsson.
PROGRAM
G. P. Telemann: Overture Suite TWV 55:a2
J.S Bach: Widerstehe doch die Sünde, BWV 54
– pause –
J.S Bach: Heavenly King, welcome, BWV 182
CONCERTS
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