Mozart - Requiem - Bach - Who knows how near my end is?

W.A. Mozart Requiem in the version by F.X. Süssmayr KV 626
The Requiem has a fascinating genesis, as it was not completed by Mozart himself
. This mystery and the aura associated with it have led to numerous speculations and
legends. Hopeless and hopeful at the same time. The Requiem contains all the emotions
that people experience in the face of death: Fear, anger, despair, sadness, hope, consolation.
The work provides a juxtaposition of God's wrath and human feelings.
J.S. Bach - Komm, süßer Tod BWV 478
is a sacred song for solo voice and figured bass by Johann Sebastian Bach. The five-verse text on which
is based was written by an unknown author around 1724. Bach composed
the song for Georg Christian Schemelli's Musicalisches Gesang-Buch published in Leipzig in 1736.
Today, the first verse of the song can be heard in a four-part setting by Cornelius Leenen as
preparation for the following work:
Nystedt - Immortal Bach op. 153b
Bach's song Komm, süßer Tod BWV 478 inspired Knut Nystedt (* September 3, 1915 in Kristiania; + December 8,
2014 in Oslo) to arrange it. The Norwegian composer became known above all for his
choral and organ compositions.
The sheet music for Immortal Bach consists of a single sheet with eight bars. Nystedt did not compose a single note of the
arrangement: the singers sustain the notes of each text section for different
lengths of time, creating cluster sounds that only lead back into the final harmony when the"
slowest" voices have reached it. A long wait for the harmony as an expression of
waiting for the redemptive death?
BWV 27 Wer weiß, wie nah mir mein Ende
Bach's cantata for the 16th Sunday after Trinity (first performed on 6 October 1726) is permeated by the
Gospel reading of the day (Luke 7: 11-17 - the raising of the young man at Nain from the dead) and the
idea of the nearness of death and the hopeful expectation of the afterlife.

Choir: Heinrich-Schütz-Kantorei Freiburg
Verena Seyboldt, soprano
Lena Sutor-Wernich, alto
Erik Grevenbrock-Reinhardt, tenor
Lorenz Kauffer, bass
Orchestra of the Heinrich-Schütz-Kantorei
Conductor: Cornelius Leenen