Bach - Christe, aller Welt Trost BWV 670 - Van Doeselaar | Netherlands Bach Society

This ’Christe, aller Welt Trost’, performed here by Leo van Doeselaar for All of Bach, is the second piece from the ’Kyrie, Christe and Kyrie’ BWV 669-671. The three pieces are composed around the long melodies of a ‘trope’: a standard hymn with extra texts, so in this case ‘Kyrie/Christe/Kyrie […] eleison’. Each piece is devoted to one facet of the Trinity, whereby Bach gives a symbolic place to the cantus firmus (the existing melody): first to God the Father in the soprano; then to God the Son among the voices in the tenor, and finally to God the Holy Ghost in the pedal bass. In this performance, Leo van Doeselaar chose to use the stop ’vox humana’ with tremulant. In this video, he explains that choice: Recorded for the project All of Bach on September 18th 2020 at Freiberger Dom Sankt Marien, Freiberg, Germany. If you want to help us complete All of Bach, please subscribe to our channel and consider donating We thank MWH4impact foundation for their generous support of this recording. MWH4impact aims to achieve social and cultural impact and joins the Netherlands Bach Society in their mission Bach for All. For the interview with Leo van Doeselaar on the Silbermann organ in Freiberg go to For more information on BWV 670 and this production go to All of Bach is a project of the Netherlands Bach Society, offering high-quality film recordings of the works by Johann Sebastian Bach, performed by the Netherlands Bach Society and its guest musicians. Visit our free online treasury for more videos and background material on For concert dates and tickets go to Leo van Doeselaar, organist Organ: Gottfried Silbermann, 1711-1714