Bach Cantatas Volume 4: Recorded live: Ansbach and Haddington, July & August 2000

Best known among this clutch of cantatas is the solo alto 'Vergnügte Ruh'. Michael Chance turns in a fervent performance, tonally pure and full of expressive nuance. Praise, too, to Susanne... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2009, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 29th Jun 2009
Catalogue No: SDG156
Label: SDG
Series: Gardiner Bach Cantatas
Length: 2 hours 0 minutes

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Bach, J S: Cantata BWV9 'Es ist das Heil uns kommen her'

Work length22:44

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Joanne Lunn (soprano), Michael Chance (alto), James Gilchrist (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (bass)
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Es ist das Heil uns kommen her (Chorus)

Track length4:48

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Recitative: Gott gab uns ein Gesetz (Bass)

Track length1:04

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Aria: Wir waren schon zu tief gesunken (Tenor)

Track length7:57

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Recitative: Doch musste das Gesetz erfullet werden (Bass)

Track length1:14

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Duet: Herr, du siehst statt guter Werke (Soprano, Alto)

Track length5:20

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Recitative: Wenn wir die Sund aus dem Gesetz erkennen (Bass)

Track length1:16

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Chorale: Ob sich's anliess, als wollt er nicht (Chorus)

Track length1:05

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Bach, J S: Cantata BWV170 'Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust'

Work length23:10

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Michael Chance (alto)
English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Aria: Vergnugte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust (Alto)

Track length6:50

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Recitativo: Die Welt, das Sundenhaus (Alto)

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Aria: Wie jammern mich doch die verkehrten Herzen (Alto)

Track length7:47

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Recitativo: Wer sollte sich demnach wohl hier (Alto)

Track length1:12

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Aria: Mir ekelt mehr zu leben (Alto)

Track length5:53

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Bach, J S: Der Gerechte kommt um

Work length7:46

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Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV186 'Ärgre dich, o Seele, nicht'

Work length27:46

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Katherine Fuge (soprano), Richard Wyn Roberts (alto), Kobie van Rensburg (tenor), Stephan Loges (bass)
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Argre dich, o Seele, nicht (Chorus)

Track length3:41

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Recitative: Die Knechtsgestalt, die Not, der Mangel (Bass)

Track length1:31

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Aria: Bist du, der mir helfen soll (Bass)

Track length2:48

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Recitative: Ach, dass ein Christ so sehr (Tenor)

Track length2:18

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Aria: Mein Heiland lasst sich merken (Tenor)

Track length2:48

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Chorale: Ob sichs anliess, als wollt er nicht (Chorus)

Track length2:28

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Recitative: Es ist die Welt die grosse Wustenei (Bass)

Track length1:25

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Aria: Die Armen will der Herr umarmen (Soprano)

Track length3:19

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Recitative: Nun mag die Welt mit ihrer Lust vergehen (Alto)

Track length1:30

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Duet: Lass, Seele, kein Leiden (Soprano, Alto)

Track length3:24

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Chorale: Die Hoffnung wart' der rechten Zeit (Chorus)

Track length2:34

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Bach, J S: Cantata BWV107 'Was willst du dich betrüben'

Work length16:49

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Katherine Fuge (soprano), Kobie van Rensburg (tenor), Stephan Loges (bass)
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Was willst du dich betruben (Chorus)

Track length3:31

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Recitative: Denn Gott verlasset keinen (Bass)

Track length0:55

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Aria: Auf ihn magst du es wagen (Bass)

Track length2:42

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Aria: Wenn auch gleich aus der Hollen (Tenor)

Track length2:26

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Aria: Er richt's zu seinen Ehren (Soprano)

Track length2:28

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Aria: Darum ich mich ihm ergebe (Tenor)

Track length2:50

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Chorale: Herr, gib, dass ich dein Ehre

Track length1:57

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Bach, J S: Cantata BWV187 'Es wartet alles auf dich'

Work length22:09

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Katherine Fuge (soprano), Richard Wyn Roberts (alto), Stephan Loges (bass)
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Es wartet alles auf dich (Chorus)

Track length6:44

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Recitative: Was Kreaturen halt (Bass)

Track length0:56

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Aria: Du Herr, du kronst allein (Alto)

Track length4:15

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Aria: Darum sollt ihr nicht sorgen (Bass)

Track length2:25

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Aria: Gott versorget alles Leben (Soprano)

Track length4:24

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Recitative: Halt ich nur fest an ihm (Soprano)

Track length1:20

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Chorale: Gott hat die Erde zugericht' (Chorus)

Track length2:05

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John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir and The English Baroque Soloists continue on their Bach pilgrimage and head to Ansbach to perform at the prestigious Ansbach Bach Festival. The programme opens with BWV 9 Es ist das Heil uns kommen her. This is then followed by the well known chamber cantata BWV 170 Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust, expertly sung by internationally renowned counter-tenor, Michael Chance. A highlight is the first alto aria - an aria of pure enchantment, which tells, through rich and passionate music, that “pleasant rest” can be attained only though union with heaven. The programme ends with the very moving funeral motet Der Gerechte kommt um, attributed to Bach, an incredibly beautiful five-voiced Latin motet composed by Johann Kuhnau. The magnificence of this motet made this very popular with both the choir and orchestra thereby resulting in it being used as a regular encore on the Bach Cantata pilgrimage.

Thirty miles east from the hustle and bustle of a busy Edinburgh hosting its world famous festival, we join John Eliot and the Monteverdi forces in the collegiate church of St. Mary’s situated in the modest, tranquil market town of Haddington, Scotland. BWV 186 Ärgre dich, o Seele, nicht, comprises eleven movements and is structured in two parts. A movement that stands out is the glorious duet for soprano and alto (No.10), in which the crucial injunction ‘Sei, seele, getreu!’ (‘O soul, be true!’) is reserved until the last two bars. We then hear BWV 107 Was willst du dich betrüben, a chorale cantata set per omnes versus, that is, with all the verses of a hymn set unaltered. Bach here cleverly overcomes the limitations of being confined to a rigidly structured hymn without monotony or repetitiveness through the usual devices of changing the voice type in the arias, the key and the metre. The final chorale, BWV 187 Es wartet alles auf dich is again structured in two parts and comprises of music that is both gentle and seductively beautiful. Bach clearly supports this belief by parodying the music of this cantata a decade later in his G minor Missa (BWV 235).

Reviews

September 2009

Best known among this clutch of cantatas is the solo alto 'Vergnügte Ruh'. Michael Chance turns in a fervent performance, tonally pure and full of expressive nuance. Praise, too, to Susanne Regel for her sensitive oboe d'amore playing.

12th July 2009

Given two separate quartets of soloists, and different configurations of Gardiner’s elite choir and period-instrument band, the results are remarkably consistent, thanks to the force of the conductor’s single-minded personality, unrepentant in his preference for medium-scale Bach...collectors of the series won’t be disappointed.

Bach Cantatas Volume 4

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