Offer,Bach Cantatas Volume 10

Cantatas for the Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity and for the Feast of the Reformation

Joanne Lunn, William Towers, James Gilchrist, Peter Harvey

The Monteverdi Choir & The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

…Gardiner's lively and articulate responses to Bach's dance rhythms… refresh and enliven the music, often in a quite distinctive way. The mighty fugal chorus of Ein Feste Burg (BWV 80) comes... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2005, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 30th Aug 2005
Catalogue No: SDG110
Label: SDG
Series: Gardiner Bach Cantatas
Length: 2 hours 1 minute

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Bach, J S: Cantata BWV48 'Ich elender Mensch, wer wird mich erlösen'

Work length16:02

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$9.10

William Towers (alto), James Gilchrist (tenor)
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Ich elender Mensch, wer wird mich erlosen (Chorus)

Track length6:12

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Recitative: O Schmerz, o Elend, so mich trifft (Alto)

Track length1:22

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Chorale: Solls ja so sein

Track length0:48

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Aria: Ach lege das Sodom der sundlichen Glieder (Alto)

Track length2:42

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Recitative: Hier aber tut des Heilands Hand (Tenor)

Track length0:41

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Aria: Vergibt mir Jesus meine Sunden (Tenor)

Track length3:07

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Chorale: Herr Jesu Christ, einiger Trost

Track length1:10

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Bach, J S: Cantata BWV5 'Wo soll ich fliehen hin'

Work length21:43

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$9.10

Peter Harvey (bass), James Gilchrist (tenor), William Towers (alto), Joanne Lunn (soprano)
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Wo soll ich fliehen hin (Chorus)

Track length4:08

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Recitative: Der Sunden Wust hat mich nicht nur befleckt (Bass)

Track length1:05

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Aria: Ergiesse dich reichlich, du gottliche Quelle (Tenor)

Track length6:56

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Recitative: Mein treuer Heiland trostet mich (Alto)

Track length1:16

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Aria: Verstumme, Hollenheer (Bass)

Track length6:23

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Recitative: Ich bin ja nur das kleinste Teil der Welt (Soprano)

Track length0:57

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Chorale: Fuhr auch mein Herz und Sinn

Track length0:58

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Bach, J S: Cantata BWV90 'Es reißet euch ein schrecklich Ende'

Work length12:49

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$6.50

James Gilchrist (tenor), William Towers (alto), Peter Harvey (bass)
English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir
Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Aria: Es reisset euch ein schrecklich Ende (Tenor)

Track length6:06

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Recitative: Des Hochsten Gute wird von Tag (Alto)

Track length1:25

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Aria: So loschet im Eifer der rächende Richter (Bass)

Track length3:21

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Recitative: Doch Gottes Auge sieht auf (Tenor)

Track length0:48

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Chorale: Leit uns mit deiner rechten Hand

Track length1:09

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Bach, J S: Cantata BWV56 'Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen'

Work length20:03

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$7.80

Peter Harvey (bass)
English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir
Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Aria: Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen (Bass)

Track length7:35

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Recitative: Mein Wandel auf der Welt (Bass)

Track length2:05

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Aria: Endlich, endlich wird mein Joch (Bass)

Track length6:41

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Recitative and Aria: Ich stehe fertig und bereit (Bass)

Track length1:44

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Chorale: Komm, o Tod, du Schlafes Bruder

Track length1:58

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Bach, J S: Cantata BWV79 'Gott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild'

Work length15:01

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$7.80

William Towers (alto), Peter Harvey (bass), Joanne Lunn (soprano)
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Gott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild (Chorus)

Track length4:57

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Aria: Gott ist unser Sonn und Schild! (Alto)

Track length3:18

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Chorale: Nun danket allet Gott

Track length2:01

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Recitative: Gottlob, wir wissen (Bass)

Track length0:57

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Aria Duet: Gott, ach Gott, verlass die Deinen nimmermehr! (Soprano, Bass)

Track length2:56

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Chorale: Erhalt uns in der Wahrheit

Track length0:52

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Excerpt, Bach, J S: Cantata BWV192 'Nun danket alle Gott'

Work length10:45

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Joanne Lunn (soprano), Peter Harvey (bass)
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Nun danket alle Gott (Chorus)

Track length5:25

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Aria Duet: Der ewig reiche Gott (Soprano, Bass)

Track length2:40

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Lob, Ehr und Preis sei Gott (Chorus)

Track length2:40

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Bach, J S: Cantata BWV80 'Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott'

Work length25:03

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$10.40

Peter Harvey (bass), Joanne Lunn (soprano), James Gilchrist (tenor), William Towers (alto)
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott (Chorus)

Track length5:10

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Aria and Chorale: Alles, was von Gott geboren (Bass, Soprano)

Track length3:19

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Recitative and Aria: Erwage doch, Kind Gottes, die so grosse Liebe (Bass)

Track length2:12

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Aria: Komm in mein Herzenshaus (Soprano)

Track length4:00

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Chorale: Und wenn die Welt voll Teufel war

Track length3:29

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Recitative: So stehe dann bei Christi blutgefarbten Fahne (Tenor)

Track length1:34

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Aria Duet: Wie selig sind doch die, die Gott im Munde tragen (Alto, Tenor)

Track length4:00

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Chorale: Das Wort sie sollen lassen stahn

Track length1:19

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Favourites, JS Bach Choral & Vocal Works

This week it's David's turn to attempt the impossible - whittling down the huge and distinguished choral discography of JS Bach and picking out the very best.

Alongside some magnificent, less well-known cantatas, this set contains two of Bach’s most famous works: the “Kreuzstab” Cantata BWV 56 for solo bass, expressing the desire to relieve Christ of the burden of the Cross, is an intimate yet intensely dramatic work, poignantly sung by Peter Harvey; BWV 80 “Ein feste Burg” is, by contrast, a monumental choral cantata celebrating the most intrinsically Lutheran festivity, the Feast of the Reformation - from the colossal, initial choral fugue to the final chorale it is a veritable rollercoaster!

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September 2005

…Gardiner's lively and articulate responses to Bach's dance rhythms… refresh and enliven the music, often in a quite distinctive way. The mighty fugal chorus of Ein Feste Burg (BWV 80) comes off splendidly, with Bach's quotation of the hymn melody in the uppermost and lowest strands of the score emerging from the full textures with forceful energy.

2010

There is unpredictable excitement in the random way the fruits of John Eliot Gardiner's Bach Pilgrimage are being released, as the next steps of that memorable year are retraced with autumn cantatas from Leipzig (19th Sunday after Trinity) and three Reformation pieces.
Volume 10 represents another compelling reminder of what Gardiner can achieve in Bach when he has the wind behind him – 'living' these works appears to have fired the imagination.
The largest work here is Ein feste Burg (No 80) whose gothic arches of sound find rasping advocacy in the Schlosskirche on the site where Luther preached. His famous hymn is most effectively fortified with a rousing bass sackbut in the first chorus. Here and in the outstanding sister-piece Gott, der Herr (No 79), the performances are distinguished by a palpable immediacy.
The cathartic duet 'Wie selig' (No 80) from William Towers and James Gilchrist is a treasure.
The quality of music never lets up in Potsdam.
Wo soll ich fliehen hin (No 5) is one of the finest of Bach's chorale cantatas, its hymn nurtured by an arresting concerto style which conveys the gnawing presence of sin and the yearning to escape its insidious influence. The contrast between its opening fantasia and the radiant tenor aria 'Ergiesse' is skilfully negotiated: James Gilchrist relishes the transformation of the chorus's 'flight' motif into one of tactile pleasure as the divine spring washes away all man's blemishes.
Mention must be made of Peter Harvey's cultivated and flexible bass. Joanne Lunn is perhaps not ideal but the chorus and orchestra are in stirring form and the recorded sound is captivating.

The festival of the Reformation is, of course, quintessentially Lutheran, and Bach's cantata Ein' feste Burg is a large-scale statement of the Lutheran credo setting words by Luther himself (the famous hymn 'A mighty fortress is our God' lending its title to the whole work).

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