JS Bach: The Great Choral Cantatas

Release Date: 30th Oct 2015
Catalogue No: ROP4046
Label: Rondeau
Series: The Liturgical Year with Johann Sebastian Bach

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Bach, J S: Cantata BWV1 'Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern'

St Thomas’s Boys Choir (Thomanerchor) & Gewandhausorchester
Thomaskantor Georg Christoph Biller

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV110 'Unser Mund sei voll Lachens'

St Thomas’s Boys Choir (Thomanerchor) & Gewandhausorchester
Thomaskantor Georg Christoph Biller

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV125 'Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin'

St Thomas’s Boys Choir (Thomanerchor) & Gewandhausorchester
Thomaskantor Georg Christoph Biller

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV128 'Auf Christi Himmelfahrt allein'

St Thomas’s Boys Choir (Thomanerchor) & Gewandhausorchester
Thomaskantor Georg Christoph Biller

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

St Thomas’s Boys Choir (Thomanerchor) & Gewandhausorchester
Thomaskantor Georg Christoph Biller

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV172 'Erschallet, ihr Lieder'

St Thomas’s Boys Choir (Thomanerchor) & Gewandhausorchester
Thomaskantor Georg Christoph Biller

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV182 'Himmelskönig, sei willkommen'

St Thomas’s Boys Choir (Thomanerchor) & Gewandhausorchester
Thomaskantor Georg Christoph Biller

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV19 'Es erhub sich ein Streit'

St Thomas’s Boys Choir (Thomanerchor) & Gewandhausorchester
Thomaskantor Georg Christoph Biller

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV190 'Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied'

St Thomas’s Boys Choir (Thomanerchor) & Gewandhausorchester
Thomaskantor Georg Christoph Biller

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV194 'Höchsterwünschtes Freudenfest'

St Thomas’s Boys Choir (Thomanerchor) & Gewandhausorchester
Thomaskantor Georg Christoph Biller

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV22 'Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe'

St Thomas’s Boys Choir (Thomanerchor) & Gewandhausorchester
Thomaskantor Georg Christoph Biller

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV23 'Du wahrer Gott und Davids Sohn'

St Thomas’s Boys Choir (Thomanerchor) & Gewandhausorchester
Thomaskantor Georg Christoph Biller

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV3 'Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid'

St Thomas’s Boys Choir (Thomanerchor) & Gewandhausorchester
Thomaskantor Georg Christoph Biller

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV31 'Der Himmel lacht, die Erde jubilieret'

St Thomas’s Boys Choir (Thomanerchor) & Gewandhausorchester
Thomaskantor Georg Christoph Biller

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV34 'O ewiges Feuer, O Ursprung der Liebe'

St Thomas’s Boys Choir (Thomanerchor) & Gewandhausorchester
Thomaskantor Georg Christoph Biller

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

St Thomas’s Boys Choir (Thomanerchor) & Gewandhausorchester
Thomaskantor Georg Christoph Biller

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV37 'Wer da glaubet und getauft wird'

St Thomas’s Boys Choir (Thomanerchor) & Gewandhausorchester
Thomaskantor Georg Christoph Biller

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV4 'Christ lag in Todesbanden' (Easter Cantata)

St Thomas’s Boys Choir (Thomanerchor) & Gewandhausorchester
Thomaskantor Georg Christoph Biller

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV43 'Gott fähret auf mit Jauchzen'

St Thomas’s Boys Choir (Thomanerchor) & Gewandhausorchester
Thomaskantor Georg Christoph Biller

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV50 'Nun ist das Heil und die Kraft'

St Thomas’s Boys Choir (Thomanerchor) & Gewandhausorchester
Thomaskantor Georg Christoph Biller

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

St Thomas’s Boys Choir (Thomanerchor) & Gewandhausorchester
Thomaskantor Georg Christoph Biller

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

St Thomas’s Boys Choir (Thomanerchor) & Gewandhausorchester
Thomaskantor Georg Christoph Biller

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV63 'Christen, aetzet diesen Tag'

St Thomas’s Boys Choir (Thomanerchor) & Gewandhausorchester
Thomaskantor Georg Christoph Biller

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV65 'Sie werden aus Saba alle kommen'

St Thomas’s Boys Choir (Thomanerchor) & Gewandhausorchester
Thomaskantor Georg Christoph Biller

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV67 'Halt im Gedächtnis Jesum Christ'

St Thomas’s Boys Choir (Thomanerchor) & Gewandhausorchester
Thomaskantor Georg Christoph Biller

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV72 'Alles nur nach Gottes Willen'

St Thomas’s Boys Choir (Thomanerchor) & Gewandhausorchester
Thomaskantor Georg Christoph Biller

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV74 'Wer mich liebet, der wird mein Wort halten'

St Thomas’s Boys Choir (Thomanerchor) & Gewandhausorchester
Thomaskantor Georg Christoph Biller

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV75 'Die Elenden sollen essen'

St Thomas’s Boys Choir (Thomanerchor) & Gewandhausorchester
Thomaskantor Georg Christoph Biller

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

St Thomas’s Boys Choir (Thomanerchor) & Gewandhausorchester
Thomaskantor Georg Christoph Biller

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

St Thomas’s Boys Choir (Thomanerchor) & Gewandhausorchester
Thomaskantor Georg Christoph Biller

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30 Cantatas, 10 CDs + Bonus material

The Georg Christoph Biller era: Thomaskantor 1992 – 2015

30 cantatas, 10 CDs – more than 12 hours of music

Bonus CD featuring exclusive recordings from St Thomas’s Church under the direction of Georg Christoph Biller

Georg Christoph Biller, cantor at St Thomas Leipzig, has made music history: as director of St Thomas’s Boys Choir Leipzig, which is renowned across the globe, he nurtured and continued Johann Sebastian Bach’s musical heritage for 22 years. These ten CDs present the 30 greatest and most inspiring of Bach’s choral cantatas, performed together with the Gewandhausorchester and exceptional soloists. The bonus CD features several exclusive recordings from St Thomas’s Church under the direction of Georg Christoph Biller, cantor at St Thomas emeritus; these are released here for the very first time.

Bach’s cantatas comprise roughly one-fifth of his overall oeuvre – alone 150 of the 190 sacred works in this genre appeared in his time as cantor at St Thomas Leipzig between 1723 and 1726. Thematically, the series is orientated to the liturgical year escorts the listener from the Advent season to Christmas and Epiphany, through to Lent, Easter, Ascension Day and Whitsun. Cantatas for the Trinity Sundays, the Marian festivities as well as the feast of St Michael and the Reformation feast determine the ecclesiastical year. The singers of St Thomas’s Boys Choir realise the solo parts for soprano and alto voices in the concerts recorded live by the Deutschlandradio Kultur and Rondeau production in St Thomas Leipzig. The Bach cantatas offer the listener a musical overview of the diversity of the genre that was obviously so close to the composer’s heart. The tradition of the weekly cantata concerts is being kept alive to this day by St Thomas’s Boys Choir.

Booklet notes: German, English

Total time: 12 hours

JS Bach: The Great Choral Cantatas

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