Bach - Cantatas BWV 140, 147 / Holton, Chance, Rolfe Johnson, Varcoe, The Monteverdi Choir, The English Baroque Soloists, Gardiner
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Brand: BachComposer: 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:
- "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme", Chorus
- "Er kommt, er kommt, der Braut'gam kommt!", Recitative for tenor
- "Wann kommst du, mein Heil?", Aria for soprano & bass
- "Zion hort die Wachter singen", Chorus
- "So geh' herein zu mir, du mir erwahlte Braut", Recitative for bass
- "Mein Freund ist mein! Und ich bin dein!", Duet for soprano & bass
- "Gloria sei dir gesungen", Chorus
- "Herz und Mund und tat und Leben", Chorus
- "Gebenedeiter Mund! Maria macht ihr Innerstes der Seele", Recitative for tenor
- "Schame dich, o Seele, nicht", Aria for alto
- "Verstockung kaun Gewaltige verblenden", Recitative for bass
- "Bereite dir, Jesu nach itzo die Bahn", Aria for soprano
- "Wohl mir, dass ich Jesum habe", Chorus
- "Hilf, Jesu, hilf dass ich auch dich bekenne", Aria for tenor
- "Der hochsten Allmacht Wunderhand", Recitative for alto
- "Ich will von Jesu Wundern singen", Aria for bass
- "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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- Styles > Classical
- Featured Composers, A-Z > ( B ) > Bach, Johann Sebastian
- Featured Performers, A-Z > ( M ) > Monteverdi Choir
- Historical Periods > Baroque (c.1600-1750) > General
- Opera & Vocal > General
- Historical Periods > Classical (c.1770-1830)
- Vocal Non-Opera > Cantatas
- Bach, Johann Sebastian - Works by J.S. Bach
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