'The Bach Project' presents natural modal elements employed by Bach in his chorales, motets, and cantatas as navigational references for individualized improvisational realizations.

#300 Warum betrübst du dich mein Herz

Poem by Clara Centenary Ribas
Carley DeFranco - voice
Ben Schwendener - piano

Recorded April 5, 2019 live at Gravity Arts Studio, Jamaica Plain, MA

Abrázame - Begining

Carley DeFranco - voice
Ben Schwendener - piano

Poem be Lawrence Ferlinghetti set to improvised Geometric Polyphony

Recorded Jan 19. 2019 Gravity Arts Studio, JP, MA

Ferlinghetti#32

Carley DeFranco - Voice
Ben Schwendener - Piano
Clara Centenera Ribas - Poetry: Abrázame

Abrazame Excerpt

Ben Schwendener, piano
Eric Rosenthal, drums
Recorded 1/27/20 Jordan Hall

Modal Realization From Bach's Art Of Fugue XI

Carley DeFranco
Ben Schwendener
Poem 'To be Soft' by Rupi Kaur

To Be Soft

Composed by Ben Schwendener & Katharine Fortin
From the Album 'Apfelschaun' (2003)Gravity Records
Ben Schwendener, pno
Uwe Steinmetz, sx
Recorded live Pickman Hall, Longy School of Music, Oct 25, 2001

Apfelschaun

Noddy Likes To Watch The Noddy Show With Tessie Bear, Sometimes

Night Song Archive edition:
Gregorian chant from the Liber Usualis

Latin chant setting for compline by Daryl Bichel
Leah Costlow, soprano
Beth Spaulding, soprano
Alison Larosa, alto and cantor
Ben Schwendener, piano & modal improvisations on J.S. Bach’s The Art of Fugue XI

Motet:  Sub umbra illius by Jacobus Clemens non Papa
Latin 1 (Bichel)
INSTRUMENTAL
Latin 2 (Bichel)
Chant:  Tu es Deus (sung by Alison)
Hymn:  Te lucis ante terminum, arr. by Bichel 
Latin 2 (Bichel)
INSTRUMENTAL
Latin 3 (Bichel)
SILENCE (brief in recording here… you can pause though as long as you like :)
Motet:  Ave Regina Caelorum by Daryl Bichel 
Latin 5 and 6 (Bichel)

Mixed and mastered at Gravity Arts Studio, Jamaica Plain, MA,  March 2020

Night Song Archive edition: Gregorian chant from the Liber Usualis

An Instrumental Offering for this Sunday.

1.  Victimae paschali laudes, plainchant (Easter sequence)
2. Jesus Christ is Risen Today, Latin Hymn 14th cent.
3. Verleih' uns Frieden gnädiglich #91, J.S. Bach
4. Now the Green Blade Rises, Traditional French carol
5. Ist Gott mein Schild und Helfersmann #122, J.S. Bach
6. This Joyful Eastertide, Vruechten

Ben Schwendener, piano
Recorded 4.18.20 & 4.19.20, Gravity Arts Studio, Jamaica Plain MA

Night Song 4.19.20

In loving memory of Emerson David Batsche - 1999 - 2020

O virtus Sapientia by Hildegard von Bimgham 
- Leah Costlow, soprano

Chant: Spiritus Domini 
- Erik Bertrand, tenor

Instrumental: First section Bach Fugue 14 
- Ben Schwendener, piano

Psalm: 104:25-35, 37 
- Daryl Bichel, bass

Chant: Veni Sancte Spiritus 
- Alison LaRosa, alto

Lesson: John 20:19-23 
- Alison LaRosa, alto

Sequence for Pentecost 
- Beth Spaulding, soprano

Instrumental: Helft mir Gott's Guete preisen (#88, J.S. Bach) 
-  Ben Schwendener, piano

O virtus Sapientia by Hildegard von Bimgham 
- Leah Costlow, soprano

Produced May 21-27, 2020 by Ben Schwendener 
Gravity Arts Studio, Jamaica Plain, MA USA

Nightsong For May 31 2020

Mood in the present. A solo creation from my studio

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