Bach Cantatas Volume 5: Cantatas for the Eighth Sunday after Trinity & Cantatas for the Tenth Sunday after Trinity

The Monterverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists are technically superb and expressive throughout… …Gardiner's expressive range, unfettered by fashionable dogma, achieves compelling results... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 29th Sep 2008
Catalogue No: SDG147
Label: SDG
Series: Gardiner Bach Cantatas
Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

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Bach, J S: Cantata BWV178 'Wo Gott der Herr nicht bei uns halt'

Work length19:22

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Christoph Genz (tenor), Robin Tyson (alto), Brindley Sherratt (bass)
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Wo Gott der Herr nicht bei uns halt (Chorus)

Track length5:34

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Recitative and Chorale: Was Menschenkraft und -witz anfaht (Alto)

Track length1:47

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Aria: Gleichwie die wilden Meereswellen (Bass)

Track length3:29

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Chorale: Sie stellen uns wie Ketzern nach (Tenor)

Track length1:44

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Chorale and Recitative: Auf sperren sie den Rachen weit (Alto, Tenor, Bass)

Track length1:19

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Aria: Schweig, schweig nur, taumelnde Vernunft! (Tenor)

Track length3:41

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Chorale: Die Feind sind all in deiner Hand

Track length1:48

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Bach, J S: Cantata BWV136 'Erforsche mich, Gott, und erfahre mein Herz'

Work length15:44

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Christoph Genz (tenor), Robin Tyson (alto), Brindley Sherratt (bass)
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Chorus: Erforsche mich, Gott, und erfahre mein Herz

Track length4:12

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Recitative: Ach, dass der Fluch, so dort (Tenor)

Track length1:16

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Aria: Es kommt ein Tag (Alto)

Track length4:09

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Recitative: Die Himmel selber sind nicht rein (Bass)

Track length1:05

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Duet: Uns treffen zwar der Sunden (Tenor, Bass)

Track length4:11

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Chorale: Dein Blut, der edle Saft

Track length0:51

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Bach, J S: Cantata BWV45 'Es ist dir gesagt, Mensch, was gut ist'

Work length17:43

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Christoph Genz (tenor), Robin Tyson (alto), Brindley Sherratt (bass)
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Es ist dir gesagt, Mensch, was gut ist (Chorus)

Track length4:57

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Recitative: Der Hochste lasst mich seinen Willen wissen (Tenor)

Track length0:45

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Aria: Weiss ich Gottes Rechte (Tenor)

Track length3:39

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Arioso: Es werden viele zu mir sagen (Bass)

Track length2:42

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Aria: Wer Gott bekennt aus wahrem Herzensgrund (Alto)

Track length3:43

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Recitative: So wird denn Herz und Mund (Alto)

Track length0:49

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Chorale: Gib, dass ich tu mit Fleiss (Chorus)

Track length1:08

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Bach, J S: Cantata BWV46 'Schauet doch und sehet, ob irgend ein Schmerz sei'

Work length18:50

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Christoph Genz (tenor), Gotthold Schwarz (bass), Daniel Taylor (alto)
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Schauer doch und sehet (Chorus)

Track length6:45

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Recitative: So klage, du zerstorte Gottesstadt (Tenor)

Track length2:04

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Aria: Dein Wetter zog sich auf von weiten (Bass)

Track length3:08

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Recitative: Doch bildet euch, o Sunder, ja nicht ein (Alto)

Track length0:51

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Aria: Doch Jesus will auch bei der Strafe (Alto)

Track length4:19

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Chorale: O grosser Gott von Treu (Chorus)

Track length1:43

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Bach, J S: Cantata BWV101 'Nimm von uns, Herr, du treuer Gott'

Work length24:57

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Christoph Genz (tenor), Gotthold Schwarz (bass), Joanne Lunn (soprano), Daniel Taylor (alto)
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Nimm von uns Herr, du treuer Gott (Chorus)

Track length5:31

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Aria: Handle nicht nach deinen Rechten (Tenor)

Track length3:16

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Recitative: Ach! Herr Gott, durch die Treue dein (Soprano)

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Aria: Warum willst du so zornig sein? (Bass)

Track length5:17

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Recitative: Die Sund hat uns verderbet sehr (Tenor)

Track length1:40

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Aria Duet: Gedenk an Jesu bittern Tod! (Soprano, Alto)

Track length6:12

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Chorale: Leit uns mit deiner rechten Hand (Chorus)

Track length0:53

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Bach, J S: Cantata BWV102 'Herr, deine Augen sehen nach dem Glauben'

Work length21:24

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Christoph Genz (tenor), Gotthold Schwarz (bass), Daniel Taylor (alto)
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Part I: Herr, deine Augen sehen nach dem Glauben (Chorus)

Track length5:17

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Part I: Recitative: Wo ist das Ebenbild, das Gott uns eingepraget (Bass)

Track length1:00

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Part I: Aria: Weh der Seele, die den Schaden nicht mehr kennt (Alto)

Track length5:15

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Part I: Arioso: Verachtest du den Reichtum seiner Gnade (Bass)

Track length2:40

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Part II: Aria: Erschrecke doch, du allzu sichre Seele (Tenor)

Track length4:02

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Part II: Recitative: Beim Warten ist Gafahr (Alto)

Track length1:23

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Part II: Chorale: Heut lebst du, heut bekehre dich (Chorus)

Track length1:47

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John Eliot Gardiner’s choral Pilgrimage exploring the magnificence and grandeur of all of Bach’s cantatas continues with this 2CD release, combining cantatas for the eighth and tenth Sunday after Trinity, recorded live in August 2000.

BWV 178 Wo Gott der Herr nicht bei uns hält, premiered in Leipzig on 20th July 1724 derives from the Gospel reading (Matthew 7:15-23) and warns against hypocrites and false prophets. With its opening powerful chorus, the mood is set for this chilling cantata fraught with anger and a grim mood of foreboding.

In contrast, hope and belief permeate BWV 136 Erforsche mich, Gott, und erfahre mein Herz and BWV 45 Es ist dir gesagt, Mensch, was gut ist. The penitential tone of BWV 136 is stressed through the beautifully crafted pleas of ‘Prüfe mich’ (‘Try me’) which appear in the extensive opening choral fugue. BWV 45 is Bach’s last surviving cantata for this Sunday and is replete with emotional turmoil.

In BWV 46 Schauet doch und sehet, ob irgendein Schmerz sei, Bach unsurprisingly, excels producing a richly thematic cantata depicting clearly the story’s vivid, unsettling patterns of destruction and restoration, of God’s anger and Christ’s mercy.

The antithesis between God’s anger and mercy resurfaces in Bach’s two later cantatas for this Sunday; BWV 101 Nimm von uns Herr, du treuer Gott and BWV 102 Herr, deine Augen sehen nach dem Glauben!

With their customary brilliance and expert musicianship, the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists triumph, making this the ideal next instalment in what many have already come to regard as the first choice of recorded Bach Cantata series.

Recording locations: Christkirche, Rendsburg & Braunschweig Cathedral

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December 2008

The Monterverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists are technically superb and expressive throughout… …Gardiner's expressive range, unfettered by fashionable dogma, achieves compelling results on a level only intermittently achieved by rivals.

2010

Our Pilgrimage travels to Rendsburg and Braunschweig for a selection from Bach's 'golden years' of vocal writing, 1723-25. The immediacy of the sound in the former seems almost ideal for the intensity of Wo Gott derHerr, which thrusts us into an unyielding paranoia about God's indifference to our plight.
Gardiner summons an impressive, generative agitation that illuminates the imagery of shipwreck in the bass aria, as well as the tenor aria with its declamatory 'Schweig, schweig' (Be silent) which, despite its final consolation, reeks of dissembling. Brindley Sherratt and Christophe Genz deliver exceptional realisations.
The short journey to the resonant Braunschweig involves a new solo team and performances which are altogether more transporting. If one reveres the 'Qui tollis' from the B minor Mass, doesn't the opening of Schauet doch in its original context of dissolute lamentation say even more? Certainly, Gardiner uses it brilliantly to take off with one of Bach's most jarring fugal exegeses.
Equally breathtaking is the traumatic opening chorus, on Luther's hymn 'Vater unser', of No 101 with its almost flagellatory appoggiaturas to depict the breaking of Satan's hold.
In Nos 46 and 102 (with another sensational opening chorus), the arias and obbligato contributions are remarkable. Gardiner calls No 102's 'Dein Wetter' one of Bach's rare 'tsunami' arias: bass Gotthold Schwarz carries this image ideally, accompanied by the fine trumpet-playing of Gabriele Cassone.
If not flawless compared to the studio series, this Pilgrimage encourages a heart-warming depth of engagement with the music.

December 2008

Increasingly excellent performances of some of Bach's finest mature cantatas. If not flawless compared to the studio series, this Pilgrimage encourages a heart-warming depth of engagement with the music.

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