Intro

Bach's Legacy

Monumental works

The Well-Tempered Clavier

Preludes & Fugues

Brandenburg Concertos

Mass in B Minor

Art of Fugue

E Major Prelude

Outro

Introduction

Early life

First published composition

Brandenburg Concertos

The Well-Tempered Clavier

Conclusion

Bach as a musical stream

Johann Sebastian Bach

The Toccata and Fugue in D-Minor

Brandenburg Concertos

The Art of Fugue

Introduction

The Goldberg Variations

Conclusion

Introduction: The legacy of Johann Sebastian Bach

The Bachfest Leipzig 2013 "Vita Christi" retold the life of Jesus Christ in music, in oratorios, masses and cantatas

Statements from festival visitors

Biography: Bach comes to Leipzig

Pianist & composer Ketil Bjørnstad improvises on Bach's music and reflects on its existential content

Biography: Bach's work in Leipzig

Christoph Wolff, Director of the Bach Archive Leipzig: How Bach directed the St. Thomas Choir

Georg Christoph Biller, Musical Director of the St. Thomas Choir: It is the St Thomas's Choir’s responsibility to regularly perform works by Johann Sebastian Bach

Rehearsal: J.S. Bach: "Cum Sancto Spiritu" (from the Mass in B minor, BWV 232) | St. Thomas Choir, Georg Christoph Biller (conductor)

Georg Christoph Biller, Musical Director of the St. Thomas Choir: The Mass in B minor is an expression of Bach's skill and thinking

Christoph Wolff, Director of the Bach Archive Leipzig: The Kyrie and Gloria set an incomparable final accent in the Mass in B minor

The theological significance of Bach and the spirituality of his music

Stefan Altner, Managing Director of the St. Thomas Choir: Bach's music not only appeals to the intellect but also touches people emotionally

Bach as a Lutheran composer

Bach's deep religiousness

Helmut Loos, Musicologist: Bach made music at the service of God

Bach's work at the St. Nicholas Church in Leipzig

Rehearsal: J.S. Bach: Sinfonia (from the Cantata "Christ lag in Todesbanden", BWV 4) | Chamber Choir & Hofkapelle Stuttgart, Frieder Bernius (conductor)

Rehearsal: J. S. Bach: Aria "Jesus Christus, Gottes Sohn" (from the Cantata "Christ lag in Todesbanden", BWV 4) | Andreas Weller (tenor), Hofkapelle Stuttgart, Frieder Bernius (conductor)

Bach is the” fifth evangelist,” because his works retell the Christian story of salvation

Helmut Loos, Musicologist: Bach's music is proclamation—and deliberately elaborate proclamation at that

The Leipzig Chamber Choir Josquin des Préz presents a program with music from Bach's circle, including by Johann Kuhnau, who was musical director of the St. Thomas Choir before Johann Sebastian Bach

Christoph Wolff, Director of the Bach Archive Leipzig: Bach was influenced by Kuhnau

Music excerpt: Johann Kuhnau: Motet "Tristis est anima mea" (Sad is my soul) | Chamber Choir Josquin des Préz, Ludwig Böhme (conductor)

Bach was a sensuous man, a humble medieval craftsman who worked to honor God

Adagio BWV 974

Air, from Orchestral Suite No. 3

Arioso

Bach Air On G String

Badinerie

Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major, BWV 1048, I. Allegro - Adagio (Remastered)

Concerto for Two Violins in D Minor, BWV 1043_ I. Vivace (Remastered)

Concerto For Two Violins

Gavotte In G Minor (unidentified)

Goldberg Variations, BWV 988, Aria

''Jesus, Joy of Man's Desiring'' from Cantata, Bwv. 147

Minuet 1

Orchestral Suite No. 3 for 3 Trumpets, 2 Oboes, Strings and Harpsichord continuo in D major (Ouvertüre III.) , BWV 1068 - Air

Partita in C minor (Sinfonia)

Suite No. 1 in C Major, BWV 1066

The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, BWV 846-869 - I. Prelude in C Major, BWV 846

The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, BWV 846-869 - Prelude No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 847

Variatio 21 Canone alla Settima

Background

Early life

Musical education

Career

Well-Tempered Clavier, Preludes and Fugues

Intro

Magnificat (Orchestra and Choir)

Et ex(s)ultavit spiritus meus (Aria)

Quia respexit humilitatem (Aria)

Omnes generationes (Choir)

Quia fecit mihi magna (Aria)

Et misericordia (Duet)

Fecit potentiam (Choir)

Deposuit potentes, (Aria)

Esurientes implevit bonis (Aria)

Suscepit Israel (Choir)

Sicut locutus est (Choir)

Gloria Patri (Choir)