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Jazz Sébastien Bach (released as Bach's Greatest Hits in North America) is the debut album released by the Paris-based Swingle Singers.The album was a 1964 Grammy award winner for "Best Performance by a Chorus" and the group also won the 1964 Grammy award for "Best New Artist". [1]
It is a contemporary rendition of a 1723 composition by Johann Sebastian Bach entitled "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring", shortened to simply "Joy". [1] [2] [3] It reached number 6 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in January 1972 and number 2 on the Adult Contemporary chart. In Canada, "Joy" reached number 24. [4]
Jacques Loussier Trio transcribed several Bach's compositions; The Swingle Singers devoted entire albums to transcriptions of Bach's work (Bach's Greatest Hits and Back to Bach) Wendy Carlos transcribed and performed many works by Bach on the Moog Synthesizer on several albums including Switched-On Bach issued by Columbia Masterworks.
Back to Bach (released as Jazz Sébastien Bach, Vol. 2 in France) is a 1968 album released by the Paris-based Swingle Singers.. All tracks from this album are also included on the CD re-issue / compilation, Jazz Sebastian Bach (combined with all tracks from 1963's Bach's Greatest Hits a.k.a. Jazz Sébastien Bach) and also on the 11 disk Philips boxed set Swingle Singers.
The Prelude in F minor of The Well-Tempered Clavier book 1, in the BGA known as Vol. 14, p. 44, over eighty years before it was given the number 857 in the Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis. In the 2nd half of the 19th century the Bach-Gesellschaft (BG) published all Bach's works in around 50 volumes, the so-called Bach Gesellschaft Ausgabe (BGA). [3]
W YA50 \ Fugue on BACH for organ in F major W YB22 \ Violin Sonata Op. 20 No.2 in D major W YB43 \ Trio for flute or violin, violin & continuo in B flat major W YB47 \ Trio for flute, flute or violin & cello in C major W YC90 \ Keyboard Concerto in E flat major W YC91 \ Keyboard Concerto in A major W YLA3 \ Keyboard Sonata in D major
An aria by Bach was rediscovered in the 21st century, and was assigned the number BWV 1127. [2] Further hymn settings and arias by Bach are included in his cantatas, motets, masses, passions, oratorios and chorale harmonisations (BWV 1–438 and later additions). The second Anhang of the BWV catalogue also lists a few songs of doubtful ...
You may hear Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" performed by E. Power Biggs Here on Archive.org The music's wide popularity has led to numerous arrangements and transcriptions, such as for the classical guitar and, in Wendy Carlos ' album Switched-On Bach , on the Moog synthesizer .