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DEC 2011
Peter Kooij „Artist in Residence“ 2012 in Michaelstein
NOV 2011
Sette Voci at Thüringer Bachwochen
Saturday, 21st April 2012,
Trinitatiskirche Ohrdruf
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: MOTETS
HEINRICH SCHÜTZ: KLEINE GEISTLICHE KONZERTE
Ensemble Sette Voci, dir. Peter Kooij
FEB 2011
DLF, 10th February 2011, 9.05 pm, “Festspiel-Panorama”
Live recording of the concert on 26th Aug 2010 in Weener
Musikfest Bremen
Arp-Schnitger-Festival
“Jesu, meine Freude”
Johann Sebastian Bach
Motets, Chorales, Preludes and Fugues
Michel Bouvard, organ
Sette Voci
dir. Peter Kooij
NOV 2010
Heinrich Schütz: Italian Madrigals op. 1
St. Andreas church, Kirchheim/Weinstr.
- Sat, 8th January 2011, 7.30 pm
- Sun, 9th January 2011, 3.00 pm
Ensemble Sette Voci
dir. Peter Kooij
SEP 2010
Bach motets CD voted best by DRS 2
Schweizer Radio DRS 2
Diskothek
im Zwei: Johann Sebastian Bach, Motets
Jörg-Andreas Bötticher and Andreas Werner discussing five
recent recordings:
- Sette Voci (Peter Kooij)
- Bach Collegium Japan (Masaaki Suzuki)
- La Petite Bande (Sigiswald Kujken)
- Flemish Radio Choir (Bo Holten)
- The Hilliard Ensemble
JUN 2010
Un disco de lo más recomendable ...
CD Compact (Barcelona) recommends our recording of Bach motets
APR 2010
A disc of serious beauty ...
New CD reviews by Diapason, BBC, The Guardian and Fono Forum
MAR 2010
Sette Voci at Musikfest Bremen
Thursday, 26th August 2010, 8.00 pm, Georgskirche Weener
Arp-Schnitger-Festival
V: “Jesu, meine Freude”
Motets and organ works by Johann Sebastian Bach
Ensemble Sette Voci, dir. Peter Kooij; Michel Bouvard, organ
FEB 2010
BBC Radio 3 Disc of the Week
Sat 27 Feb 2010,
CD Review
11.05 am Disc of the Week
Bach: Motets BWV225-230; Ich lasse dich nicht BWV Anh 159
Sette Voci / Peter Kooij (director)
Ramée RAM0906 (CD)
JAN 2010
Reviews KulturSPIEGEL / klassik.com / Crescendo
“Schwerlich hat der Thomaskantor seine sakralen Meditationen je in dieser Perfektion gehört: Acht Sänger, Orgel und Violone verbinden sich unter der Leitung von Peter Kooij zu schlackenlosem Einklang. Sanft gestisch, aber nie übertrieben affektiert gestalten sie einen zeitlosen melodischen Kosmos.”
NOV 2009
CD Release
Johann Sebastian Bach: Jesu, meine Freude - The Motets (Ramée)
- Komm, Jesu, komm (BWV 229)
- Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf (BWV 226)
- Jesu, meine Freude (BWV 227)
- Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied (BWV 225)
- Ich lasse dich nicht, du segnest mich denn (BWV Anh. 159)
- Fürchte dich nicht, ich bin bei dir (BWV 228)
- Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden (BWV 230)
Hana Blažíková, Zsuzsi Tóth -
sopranos
Damien Guillon, Robin Blaze - altos
Satoshi Mizukoshi, Chris Watson - tenors
Dominik Wörner, Jelle Draijer - basses
Jan Jansen, Masato Suzuki - organ
Armin Bereuter - violone
Peter Kooij - direction
During a journey Mozart made from Vienna to Berlin in 1789, he visited Leipzig and attended a rehearsal of Bach's motet Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied (BWV 225), sung by the Thomanenchor under the direction of Cantor Johann Friedrich Doles. One of the boys in the choir at the time, Friedrich Rochlitz, would some years later become a musicologist, and he bears witness, in the Allgemein Musikalischen Zeitung in 1798, to the artistic revelation that struck Mozart: "The choir had sung but a few bars, when Mozart interrupted us, crying "What is this piece?", and it seemed that his entire soul was then to be found in his ears. When we had completed the motet, he called out, filled with joy, "Now that is indeed quite something! There is much to be learned here ... bring it to me!" But we had no score, so we gave him the part-copies, and then it was for us a great joy to see with what enthusiasm Mozart arranged the parts - his hands full, paper spread on his knees, and on the surrounding chairs - and forgot all else until he had absorbed all that Bach had set down."