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About the Spring Season
Following the success of the Bach Interactions digital concert series, the Bach Consort ushers in Spring 2021 with three live performances broadcast directly to you. The Consort is pleased to present these concerts from three iconic Washington churches: St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Saint Sophia’s Greek Orthodox Cathedral, and the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in America.
Devotion & Contemplation
Membra Jesu nostri, BuxWV 75
Devotion & Contemplation
Membra Jesu nostri, BuxWV 75
Thursday, May 20, 2021 at 8 p.m. on YouTube
Recorded at The Franciscan Monastery
Dieterich Buxtehude (c.1637/39–1707)
Membra Jesu nostri, BuxWV 75
Soloists:
Margot Rood
soprano
Sara MacKimmie
soprano
Reginald Mobley
countertenor
Jacob Perry, Jr.
tenor
Jonathan Woody
bass
MORE ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE
The North German composer Dieterich Buxtehude (c.1637/39–1707) was held in such high reverence by the 20-year-old Johann Sebastian Bach that he walked 250 miles from Arnstadt to Lübeck to hear the great organist/composer. Membra Jesu nostri is an exquisite cycle of seven short cantatas, each a contemplation of a different part of the body of Christ. Derived from a thirteenth-century poem, the work evinces a vast spectrum of divinely inspired emotion and introspective beauty.
Vocalists:
Margot Rood & Sara MacKimmie, sopranos; Reginald Mobley, countertenor; Jacob Perry, Jr., tenor; Jonathan Woody, bass
Instrumentalists:
Julie Andrijeski & David McCormick, violins; Amy Domingues, John Moran, Leslie Nero & Niccolo Seligmann, violas da gamba; Jessica Powell Eig, viola da gamba & violone; Adam Pearl, organ
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Membra Jesu nostri, BuxWV 75
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