Schlaf worden - 4 Bachreflexionen

In 2017 – the year of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation – the Evangelical Church of Westphalia commissioned compositions under the theme “Dialoge 2017” (Dialogues 2017). Inspired by texts, form or free association, these compositions were created in the form of a “dialogue” with selected cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach. “Schlaf worden” by Martin Wistinghausen is in dialogue with Joh. Seb. Bach’s cantata „Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr’ dahin“ BWV 125. WP: 5. February 2017, church St. Walburga Meschede, conductor: KMD Gerd Weimar

instrumentation: narrator, mixed choir (SMsATBarB), fl/alto-fl, ob/ob d’amore, drum (marimba, 3 humpback gongs, tuned glassis: a³ increased by a quarter tone, c4, cis4), organ positiv, v I (3), v II (3), va (2), vc, double bass