Quite some time ago I was enthusing about a rare (in that it is difficult to obtain) recording I had acquired of the Motets performed by the Tolz Boys Choir. I still hold this to be astounding listening, so balanced and with some beautiful solo performances that lift the entire work to another level, and unlike some of their other performances they appear ideally suited to Bach's Motets. Here's a short review of that particular recording:
Tölzer Knabenchor
Now look what I've found, perhaps the quality doesn't come through but it's worth sharing because many people will never even have heard of the Tölzer Knabenchor. The second snippet of Jesu, Meine Freude gives a glimpse of a small group solo performance and helps you see how individual voices soar through to lift the work into those celestial dimensions.
Jesu, Meine Freude # 1
Jesu, Meine Freude # 2
Komm, Jesu, Komm
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War in the Spirit
Homer: The Iliad & The Odyssey
The Holy Bible AV1611
Ouspensky: The Fourth Way
Aeschylus: The Oresteia
The Holy Bible AV1611
Ouspensky: The Fourth Way
Aeschylus: The Oresteia
Canons of Dort III-IV.14
Faith is therefore to be considered as the gift of God, not on account of its being offered by God to man, to be accepted or rejected at his pleasure, but because it is in reality conferred upon him, breathed and infused into him; not even because God bestows the power or ability to believe and then expects that man should by the exercise of his own free will consent to the terms of salvation and actually believe in Christ, but because He who works in man both to will and to work, and indeed all things in all, produces both the will to believe and the act of believing also.