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Sunday, 10/18/2026
at 5:00 PM



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Anxiety and Defiance!

The Madrigal Choir sings motets by Bach and Brahms

Two strong and contradictory emotions make the motet "Jesu, meine Freude" (BWV 227) by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) highly relevant, no matter how foreign the text of the hymn by Johann Franck may seem: anxiety ("Oh, how long my heart is anxious") and defiance ("Despite the old dragon, despite hell"). This, along with the guarantee that Bach creates spectacular music from it, is reason enough to attend the concert of the Madrigal Choir Alu Singen. Like a pause to the tension-filled setting of "Nothing," how people sing to defy fear, this and much more can be heard in this motet.

The other motet "Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied" (BWV 225) fascinates with the turbulent hustle and bustle with which Bach sets the call to sing to music. The texts of Psalms 149 and 150 are already overflowing; Bach corresponds to this by composing in double choir and achieving a fullness of sound and form, as if he wants to suggest how the angel choirs in heaven express themselves in song.

When, in addition to these baroque works, the two motets "Es ist das Heil uns kommen her" and "Schaffe in mir, Gott, ein rein Herz" (opus 29) by Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) are performed in the concert, this is both appropriate and exciting. On the one hand, both compositions are thoroughly romantic music. On the other hand, they are approaches to Bach's music in the way Brahms works with baroque stylistic devices.

Georg Koch, director of church music and district cantor of the Catholic parish of Hegau, will complete the concert program with romantic organ works.

As is customary in historical performance practice, a wind and a string quartet will join the choir for Bach's motets. The overall direction is by Hartmut Kasper, and the continuo organ will be played by Barbara Kasper.

For more information, also visit http://www.mca-singen.de

Admission: 16:15

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