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Background: 'Altbachisches Archiv' collection consists of around 200 sheets of small-format music paper, yellowing and brittle, and covered with elaborate, ornate characters - the musical legacy of Bach's ancestors. Here now is a recording of the complete collection.

That we know anything at all about the musical achievements of the older members of the Bach family is essentially due to the collecting zeal of Johann Sebastian himself, whose music library preserved around twenty sacred vocal works by his forbears.

Since the late eighteenth century the generally accepted designation for this collection of family heirlooms has been the 'Altbachisches Archiv' and it was under this name that it was published in two slim 'monumental' volumes in the Bach Year of 1935. The originals, at that time in the library of the Berlin Sing-Akademie, went missing for more than fifty years after the end of the Second World War and were only recently located once more in the Ukraine State Archives in Kiev; since that time they have been returned to Berlin.

CATALOGUE NR: HMC90178384
RECORD LABEL: Harmonia Mundi
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: £ 19.99 including VAT, or £ 17.01 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 07-Apr-2003

COMPOSER: Johann Michael Bach  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: The Archive of the Elder Bachs
TRACKS: Die Furcht des Herren. Ich weiss daß mein Erlöser lebt. Auf aßt uns den Herren loben. Ach wie sehnlich wart ich der Zeit. Herr wenn ich nur dich habe. Nun hab ich überwunden. Das Blut Jesu Christi (Johann Michael Bach). Lieber Herr Gott wecke uns auf. Wie bist du denn o Gott n Zorn auf mich entbrannt. Es erhub sich ein Streit. Unsers Herzens Freude hat ein Ende. Meine Freundin du bist schön. Herr nun lässest du deinen Diener in Frieden fahren. Herr wende dich und sei mir gnädig. Der Gerechte ob er gleich zu zeitlich stirbt. Mit Weinen hebt sichs an. Ach daß ich Wassers gnug hätte. Es ist nun aus (Johann Christoph Bach). Unser Leben ist ein Schatten. Sei nun wieder zufrieden meine Seele (Johann Bach). Siehe wie fein und lieblich ist's (George Christoph Bach). Nun ist alles überwunden (Adam Drese). Aria - Weint nicht um meinen Tod (Anon). Ich lasse dich nicht du segnest mich denn (JS Bach).
CONDUCTOR: Konrad Junghanel
ARTISTS: Cantus Colln   Concerto Palatino   Bruce Dickey   Charles Toet

- Aug-2003 4 star BBC Music Mag. - Penguin Guide Rosette star 'the singing is of the highest calibre, as is the authentic instrumental contribution, and everything comes over freshly and spontaneously'

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