Bach Cantatas Volume 13: Recorded live: Köln/Lüneburg, December 2000

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These half-dozen masterpieces offer as an alluring a conspectus of Bach's sublime inspiration as I can think of. Gardiner and his musicians are on splendid form. In BWV 61 bass Dietrich Henschel's... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 26th Oct 2009
Catalogue No: SDG162
Label: SDG
Series: Gardiner Bach Cantatas
Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

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Bach, J S: Cantata BWV61 'Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland'

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Joanne Lunn, Jan Kobow, Dietrich Henschel
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Overture - Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (Chorus)

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Recitative. Der Heiland ist gekommen (Tenor)

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Aria. Komm, Jesu, komm zu deiner Kirche (Tenor)

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Recitative. Siehe, ich stehe vor der Tur (Bass)

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Aria. Offne dich, mein ganzes Herze (Soprano)

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Amen, Amen (Chorus)

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Bach, J S: Cantata BWV62 'Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland'

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Joanne Lunn, William Towers, Jan Kobow, Dietrich Henschel
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (Chorus)

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Aria. Bewundert, o Menschen, dies grosse Geheimnis (Tenor)

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Recitative. So geht aus Gottes Herrlichkeit und Thron (Bass)

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Aria. Streite, siege, starker Held! (Bass)

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Recitative. Wir ehren diese Herrlichkeit (Soprano, Alto)

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Chorale. Lob sei Gott, dem Vater, ton

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Bach, J S: Cantata BWV36 'Schwingt freudig euch empor'

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Joanne Lunn, William Towers, Jan Kobow, Dietrich Henschel
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Schwingt freudig euch empor (Chorus)

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Chorale. Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (Soprano, Alto)

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Aria. Die Liebe zieht mit sanften Schritten (Tenor)

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Chorale. Zwingt die Saiten in Cythara (Chorus)

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Aria. Willkommen, werter Schatz! (Bass)

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Chorale. Der du bist dem Vater gleich (Tenor)

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Aria. Auch mit gedampften, schwachen Stimmen (Soprano)

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Chorale. Lob sei Gott, dem Vater, ton (Chorus)

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Bach, J S: Cantata BWV70a 'Wachet! betet! betet! wachet!'

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Brigitte Geller, Michael Chance, Jan Kobow, Dietrich Henschel
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Wachet! Betet! Betet! Wachet! (Chorus)

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Recitative. Erschrecket, ihr verstocken Sunder (Bass)

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Aria. Wenn kommt der Tag (Alto)

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Recitative. Auch bei dem himmlischen Verlangen (Tenor)

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Aria. Lasst der Spotter Zungen schmahen (Soprano)

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Recitative. Jedoch bei dem unartigen Geschlechte (Tenor)

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Chorale. Freu dich sehr, o meine Seele (Chorus)

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Aria. Hebt euer Haupt empor (Tenor)

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Recitative. Ach, soll nicht dieser grosse Tag (Bass)

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Aria. Seligster Erquickungstag (Bass)

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Chorale. Nicht nach Welt, nach Himmel nicht (Chorus)

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Bach, J S: Cantata BWV132 'Bereitet die Wege, bereitet die Bahn'

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Brigitte Geller, Michael Chance, Jan Kobow, Dietrich Henschel
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Aria. Bereitet die Wege, bereitet die Bahn! (Soprano)

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Recitative. Willst du dich Gottes Kind (Tenor)

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Aria. Wer bist du? Frage dein Gewissen (Bass)

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Recitative. Ich will, mein Gott (Alto)

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Aria. Christi Glieder, ach bedenket (Alto)

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Ertot uns durch dein Gute (Chorus)

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Bach, J S: Cantata BWV147 'Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben'

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Brigitte Geller, Michael Chance, Jan Kobow, Dietrich Henschel
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Chorus. Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben

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Accompanied Recitative. Gebenedeiter Mund! (Tenor)

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Aria. Schame dich, o Seele, nicht (Alto)

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Recitative. Verstockung kann Gewaltige verblenden (Bass)

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Aria. Bereite dir, Jesu, noch itzo die Bahn (Soprano)

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Chorale. Wohl mir, dass ich Jesum habe

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Aria. Hilf, Jesu, hilf, dass ich auch dich bekenne (Tenor)

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Recitative. Der hochsten Allmacht Wunderhand (Alto)

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Aria. Ich will von Jesu Wundern singen (Bass)

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Chorale. Jesus bleibet meine Freude

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Cantatas for the for the First Sunday in Advent (Köln) & Cantatas for the Fourth Sunday in Advent (Lüneburg).

The illustrious, multi-award winning Bach Cantatas series on SDG continues with volume 13 in the series. It features Cantatas for the first and fourth Sunday in Advent and was recorded live in December 2000.

We join John Eliot Gardiner, the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists on their Bach Cantata pilgrimage for a concert of Bach’s Advent cantatas, performed in the largest of the Romanesque churches in Cologne, St. Maria im Kapitol (St. Mary in the Capital).

Besides the festive allure they have in common, all three of Bach’s surviving cantatas for Advent (BWV 61, 62 and 36) display a sense of excitement at the onset of the Advent season. This is a time of anticipation and waiting, and an opportunity for congregations to turn away from all those self-absorbed feelings of guilt, fear, damnation and hellfire that dominated the final Sunday of the Trinity season. This sense of having at last turned a corner is summed up in the radiantly benign accompagnato for soprano and alto ‘Wir ehren diese Herrlickkeit’, the penultimate movement of BWV 62 Nun Komm, der Heiden Heiland (Come now, Saviour of the Gentiles). The successive stages of Advent and the different perspectives these give on Jesus’ incarnation are perhaps most clearly marked in Bach’s early version of BWV 61 Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland. The programme ends with BWV 36 Schwingt freudig euch empor (Soar joyfully aloft), a large-scale work divided into two parts, the first of which would have been performed before the sermon, the second afterwards.

The final European leg of the year-long pilgrimage takes us to the atmospheric Michaeliskirche in Lüneburg where we join John Eliot and his musical forces in a concert of three of Bach’s most gripping church cantatas. The programme begins with BWV 70 Wachet! betet! betet! wachet! (Watch! pray! pray! watch!). We then hear one of Bach’s earliest cantatas, BWV 132 Bereitet die Wege, bereitet die Bahn! (Prepare the way, prepare the path), an intimate work scored for four voices, oboe, bassoon, strings and continuo consisting of two recitatives, three arias and a final chorale.

The concert ends with BWV 147 Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben (Heart and Mouth, Deeds and Life), the best known of Bach’s reworkings of an earlier Weimar cantata. The pre-Christmas excitement is captured in the glorious opening chorus by the fanfare-like opening section for orchestra.

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January 2010

These half-dozen masterpieces offer as an alluring a conspectus of Bach's sublime inspiration as I can think of. Gardiner and his musicians are on splendid form. In BWV 61 bass Dietrich Henschel's tenderly declaimed direct speech from Revelations, 'Behold, I stand at the door and knock' is affecting, as is soprano Joanne Lunn's beautifully paced and fervently imploring continuo aria. Tenor Jan Kobow and Henschel both excel in their arias in BWV 62 while Lunn and William Towers as witnesses of the Nativity bring a pleasing blend of intimacy and wonder to their accompagnato.

January 2010

The fluency and dramatic immediacy of Wachet! Betet! (BWV70) is telling indeed… Most impressive is the panache and finely judged pacing of the subsequent movements - in which Henschel is again supreme. BWV132 receives an exceptional performance, the line led by soprano Brigitte Geller and Henschel with real class, and so too the ubiquitous Herz and Mund (BWV147). It is as powerful and effective a performance as you're likely to hear of a perennial favourite.

20th December 2009

Gardiner's vivid commitment carries through to the joyful performances. This ongoing recording project ranks as one of the musical events of the decade.

Bach Cantatas Volume 13

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