Bach - Cantatas BWV 140, 147 / Holton, Chance, Rolfe Johnson, Varcoe, The Monteverdi Choir, The English Baroque Soloists, Gardiner

Bach - Cantatas BWV 140, 147 / Holton, Chance, Rolfe Johnson, Varcoe, The Monteverdi Choir, The English Baroque Soloists, Gardiner

Bach - Cantatas BWV 140, 147 / Holton, Chance, Rolfe Johnson, Varcoe, The Monteverdi Choir, The English Baroque Soloists, Gardiner
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Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Orchestra: The English Baroque Soloists
Performer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Performer: Ruth Holton
Performer: Stephen Varcoe
Performer: The Monteverdi Choir
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-10-10
Music Label: Archiv Produktion
Soundtracks:
  1. "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme", Chorus
  2. "Er kommt, er kommt, der Braut'gam kommt!", Recitative for tenor
  3. "Wann kommst du, mein Heil?", Aria for soprano & bass
  4. "Zion hort die Wachter singen", Chorus
  5. "So geh' herein zu mir, du mir erwahlte Braut", Recitative for bass
  6. "Mein Freund ist mein! Und ich bin dein!", Duet for soprano & bass
  7. "Gloria sei dir gesungen", Chorus
  8. "Herz und Mund und tat und Leben", Chorus
  9. "Gebenedeiter Mund! Maria macht ihr Innerstes der Seele", Recitative for tenor
  10. "Schame dich, o Seele, nicht", Aria for alto
  11. "Verstockung kaun Gewaltige verblenden", Recitative for bass
  12. "Bereite dir, Jesu nach itzo die Bahn", Aria for soprano
  13. "Wohl mir, dass ich Jesum habe", Chorus
  14. "Hilf, Jesu, hilf dass ich auch dich bekenne", Aria for tenor
  15. "Der hochsten Allmacht Wunderhand", Recitative for alto
  16. "Ich will von Jesu Wundern singen", Aria for bass
  17. "Jesus bleibet meine Freude", Chorus

Music reviews of Bach - Cantatas BWV 140, 147 / Holton, Chance, Rolfe Johnson, Varcoe, The Monteverdi Choir, The English Baroque Soloists, Gardiner

Music Review: Sublime music, fine performances
Rating: 5 Stars

Bach's cantatas were some of the finest music to come out of the high Baroque, and these two are justifiably among the most famous. Especially in view of their quality, the cantatas are underperformed. Gardiner did all of us a favor by championing them.

To judge this disc by the music on it and not its labeling (which did not confuse me), it deserves a high rating. This music does deserve a period instrument, historically informed performance. The instruments produce clear lines rather than romantic lushness. And Gardiner's interpretation is vigorous rather than reverential. This is most obvious in the famous (and much transcribed) movement no. 4, the "Zion h?rt die W?chter singen" choral, from the "Wachet auf" cantata. There are painfully slow, reverential performances of this music that seem to be plowing through molasses. That's how Karl Richter recorded it. Gardiner, in comparison, takes it at a gallop, and the music comes alive. It's wonderful.

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