Bach - Easter Cantatas BWV 6 & 66 / Fink, Davislim, Clarkson, Chance, Padmore, Henschel, The Monteverdi Choir, The English Baroque Soloists, Gardiner
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Composer: Johann Sebastian BachConductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2000-02-01
Music Label: Archiv Prod Import
Soundtracks:
- 1. Chorus: Bleib Bei Uns, Denn Es Will Abend Werden
- 2. Aria (Contralto): Hochgelobter Gottesohn
- 3. Chorale (Sopranos): Ach Bleib Be Uns, Herr Jesu Christ
- 4. Recitative (Bass): Es Hat Die Dunkelheit An Vielen Orten
- 5. Aria (Tenor): Jesu, LaÃ? Uns Auf Dich Sehen
- 6. Chorale: Beweis Dein Macht, Herr Jesu Christ
- 1. Chorus: Erfreut Euch, Ihr Herzen
- 2. Recitative (Bass): Es Bricht Das Grab Und Damit Unsre Not
- 3. Aria (Bass): Lasset Dem Höchsten Ein Danklied Erschallen
- 4. Recitative (Dialogue) & Arioso (Countertenor, Tenor): Bei Jesu Leben Freudig Sein
- 5. Duet (Countertenor, Tenor): Ich Fürchte Zwar / Nicht Des Grabes Finsternissen
- 6. Chorale: Halleluja! Des Solln Wir Alle Froh Sein
Description of Bach - Easter Cantatas BWV 6 & 66 / Fink, Davislim, Clarkson, Chance, Padmore, Henschel, The Monteverdi Choir, The English Baroque Soloists, Gardiner
All products are BRAND NEW and factory sealed. Fast shipping and 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.John Eliot Gardiner's year-2000 project is big, even for him: a "pilgrimage" to perform all of Bach's surviving church cantatas (more than 200) between Christmas 1999 and Christmas 2000 in various churches throughout Europe, with a finale planned for New York City. With so much music, so many places, and so little time, worries about routine, autopilot music-making, and inconsistent performance standards were understandable. It was no doubt prudent for DG to record most of the "Bach Cantata Pilgrimage" series in the studio before the tour began. So it's all the more distressing that, even with Gardiner's famously skillful choir and orchestra recording under studio conditions, the first volume of the series is a disaster. The Monteverdi Choir, renowned as the well-oiled, high-precision machine of the choral world, sings with poor blend and occasionally shaky tuning (practically unheard-of for this group); the orchestral playing is either blaring or blasé; and the soloists sound uninvolved or uncertain, or both. It's hard not to think that everyone was sight-reading the music during the recording sessions. Most unfortunate of all is the once-superb countertenor Michael Chance, whose wobbly, indeterminate, frayed singing is heartbreaking. (Get the much better volume 2 of this series, a reissue of a 1989 recording, to hear just how good he used to be.) DG probably was contractually obligated to release this recording, but Gardiner should be ashamed to have let it leave the studio. Thank goodness that later volumes in this series aren't as bad. --Matthew Westphal
This is the first of a series of recordings stemming from John Eliot Gardiner's "Bach Cantata Pilgrimage," a project to present all of the sacred cantatas in churches throughout Europe. The two cantatas on this disc are lesser-known Easter cantatas. Written in 1725, BWV 6 "Bleib bei uns, denn es will Abend werden" ("Abide with us") is darkly dramatic, full of yearning. BWV 66, from 1724, is a reworking of a secular piece originally written to celebrate a princely birthday. It's a brighter work, as evidenced by its opening chorus, "Erfreut euch, ihr Herzen"("Rejoice, ye hearts"). Gardiner's period-practice interpretations are muscular enough to satisfy traditionalists as well, and performances of both cantatas are good without lighting any fires, as are the soloists--with the exception of Michael Chance's undernourished countertenor. Short timing, though--only 48 minutes, more than enough for another cantata. --Dan Davis
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