Festival de Música Religiosa de Canarias: Canciones y Arias Espirituales

Religious Music Canarian Festival in Arrecife.

Bach frequently set chorale texts that originated from the Lutheran Reformation, as well as poems by contemporary authors such as Salomon Franck and Christian Friedrich Henrici (Picander). While Bach never seems to have strayed from Lutheran orthodoxy, there are moments where his music suggests an affinity with Pietist spirituality—a devotional movement that, from the late 17th century, was particularly active in Leipzig under the influence of Alsatian theologian Philipp Jacob Spener.