Boys strike Bach: "Gute Nacht, o Wesen" from the motet "Jesu, meine Freude" (BWV 227)

The Boys are Bach!
Robin, Alexander, and Matthias Schloderer sing this incredible selection from a motet.

The Tölzer Knabenchor (Tölz boys' choir) is a colorful and famous boys' choir with roots in the Bavarian town of Bad Tölz.

The choir group is still led by director and singing master Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden, who founded the choir in 1956 when he was only nineteen years old. The founder was once a student of Carl Orff's and worked with him a few years. At the outset, the group was composed of 170 boys divided into several separate choirs. Children are admitted for entrance trials from second grade from schools in the Munich area. The choir is not affiliated with any boarding school. The children are tutored in choir and individual lessons in Munich, and so their enthusiasm and passion for music is awakened.

The repertoire covers vocal music from the medieval to the modern, folk music, madrigals and motets, church music from the baroque to the classical, solo roles and opera for children's choirs. Members of the choir have played the "Three boys" in Mozart's Der Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) in numerous productions, and for that the group is already legendary.
http://www.toelzerknabenchor.de/

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[greencat895]

wonderfully done. but i wanna point something out, slightly irrelevant but its bothering me...there's an older boy behind alexander just awkwardly standing there and doesn't sing a peep. he looks down at his book but nothing...

[InQuires]

Presumably he would have sung if he had any parts in this section. Since he isn't singing, I must conclude that he doesn't have any parts.

[Wuschlkarin]

This piece only has a single male voice, there´s no base, just tenors.

The older boy sings tenor, the choir sings alto, the two little boys sing soprano 1 and soprano 2.

[InQuires]

Close, but I would say it has four male voices. Tenor, boy alto, treble 1 and treble 2.

After all, Bach wrote for men and boys. When females sing the soprano lines of his church music, they are singing male parts.

[toknfan]

Wrong title: It is "Gute Nacht, o Wesen" an excerpt of the moetet  "Jesu, meine Freude" (BWV 227) and not BWV 501.

[InQuires]

Thanks! I made the correction. Unfortuanatly the file I was working off of doesn't have the title so I was guessing. I guessed wrong.

[starbreez3]

Omg the tenor is awesome.

[KYA789]

This is Fantastic!!!!

[sorrowfulrin12]

@starbreez3 i know :3

[KindaCoolKia]

This is AWESOME!!!!!!

[titussenlair]

superb !

merci

Les Loupiots

[Wandrative]

Alexander's the best!!!

I wonder what he does now. It seems like as if nothig is left of him after this. Does anyone know what happened to him?

[pianistaeli]

Excellent! No bass part in this section of Jesu meine Freude. I would guess the tall boy "who doesn't sing" is a bass so he has nothing to sing here.

[alexpjp]

Beautifully sung! 

[alexpjp]

Beautifully and emotionally sung, but with much great taste!

Where from comes this choir?

[198Karo]

Cool, die Stimmen und Lautstärken passen perfekt zusammen!

[happyman]

oh wow... bach is awesome!!! wonderful... wonderful.

[OldSchoolissoKool]

i think is Tenor, Altos, Soprano1 and Soprano 2( i hear very little of Robin) ima listen to it again to spot his voice.