All but one of Bach's motets were written for funeral or memorial services.
In the first of two programmes, Jeremy Summerly presents two of them in a recording by the RIAS Chamber Choir and Berlin Academy of Ancient Music, plus another funeral lament - William Boyce 's setting of David's
Lamentation over Saul and Jonathan.
Bach Komm , Jesu, komm, BWV 229
Sibylla Rubens and Maria Cristina Kiehr (sopranos), Bernarda Fink
(contralto), Gerd Turk (tenor), Peter Kooy (bass), RIAS Chamber Choir, Berlin Academy of Ancient Music, conductor Rene Jacobs
Boyce David 's Lamentation over Saul and Jonathan
Sarah Connolly (contralto), Paul Agnew (tenor), St James 's Baroque Players, conductor Ivor Bolton
Bach Jesu , meine Freude, BWV 227
For performer see Bach work above Producer Antony Pitts