Bach: Sacred Lieder BWV 487, BWV 500, BWV 508 .. (Century’s recording: Aafje Heynis / Remastered)

Full Album available // Bach: Cantatas BWV 170 & 169, Sacred Arias, Sacred Lieder Aafje Heynis 🎧 Qobuz Tidal 🎧 Deezer Amazon Music 🎧 Apple Music — Spotify — Idagio — Youtube Music 🎧 Naspter, Pandora, Anghami, Soundcloud, QQ音乐, LineMusic日本… Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Sacred Lieder 00:00 Mein Jesu was vor Seelenweh BWV 487 (Organ: Simon C. Jansen) (Remastered 2022) 03:34 Jesus Neigt Sein Haupt Und Stirbt (Johann Wolfgang Franck, Organ: Simon C. Jansen) (Remastered 2022) 07:38 So gehst du nun, mein Jesu, hin BWV 500 (Organ: Simon C. Jansen) (Remastered 2022) 10:58 Bist du bei mir BWV 508 (Organ: Pierre Polla) (Remastered 2022) Contralto: Aafje Heynis Organ: Simon C. Jansen & Pierre Polla Recorded around 1960 New mastering in 2022 by AB for CMRR 🔊 Join us with your phone on our WhatsApp fanpage (our latest album preview): 🔊 Find our entire catalog on Qobuz: 🔊 Discover our playlists on Spotify: ❤ Support us on Patreon Jean-Charles Hoffelé: “The smile of this tall, well-dressed woman from an Alfred Hitchcock film delighted the young man I was then, and the person made me forget the singer by dint of her attentions and delicacy. The late Henry de Rouville, her pupil, had allowed me to meet her. The androgynous touch of Aafje Heynis’ timbre has always fascinated countertenors, and rather than comparing her to Kathleen Ferrier, he saw in her a distant cousin of Alfred Deller. Like Ferrier, Heynis began in the choir, in church. She would have remained there, anonymous and happy, if one morning in May 1945, in the electric climate of a still promised Liberation, her friends had not pushed her onto a platform. “Sing!“. She sang Dank sei Dir, Herr. A shock. Anthony van der Horst took her under his wing, giving her the technical basics that were still missing - for art and sensitivity, everything was already there. Still unsure, she crossed the Channel and sounded with the great baritone Roy Henderson. They worked together for three years in the music salon where Kathleen Ferrier had preceded her ten years earlier, a period of which she spoke only in passing. Back in Holland, she returned to the church. It was in Bach that she recognized herself, seeking the celestial line behind the earthly words, transforming herself at will into a cello or a clarinet. What instrumental singing means, she realized it fully and as a matter of course. At the opposite end of the spectrum from a career, Aafje Heynis never sought to reap the fruits of her spiritual labor in the public arena, and left us on December 16 at the age of ninety-one - long, long after she had unapologetically but bitterly fled the spotlight.“ Other Album available // Bach: Brandenburg Concertos BWV 1046-1051 Szymon Goldberg 🎧 Qobuz Tidal 🎧 Apple Music Deezer 🎧 Amazon Music Spotify 🎧 Youtube Music Soundcloud Johann Sebastian Bach PLAYLIST (reference recordings):