Chorale 'Gute Nacht, o Wesen', BWV 277

Transcription of the chorale, "Gute Nacht, o Wesen", from J.S.Bach's motet, "Jesu, meine Freude", BWV 277 (1723).

 

Commissioned by the Wigmore Hall for the Angela Hewitt Bach Book Project.

 

Angela Hewitt describes how “it seemed a wonderful idea to ask composers of my time to write short pieces inspired somehow by Bach. I didn’t stipulate more than that, except that they shouldn’t be too long and that they could be either something totally new or else a transcription… Whereas Harriet Cohen’s Bach Book was very much a British affair, my own is distinctly international. There are new works from the Australian Brett Dean, Elena Kats-Chernin (born in Tashkent in Uzbekistan), Kurt Schwertsik from Vienna, and Robin Holloway from England.”