Bach: Motets BWV 225-230, Cantatas BWV 50 & 118

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Release Date: 25th Jan 2019
Catalogue No: 9029554305
Label: Erato
Series: Veritas
Length: 1 hour 41 minutes

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Bach, J S: Motet BWV229 'Komm, Jesu, komm!'

Work length9:36

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Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Bach, J S: O Jesu Christ, mein's Lebens Licht, BWV 118

Work length10:13

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Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Bach, J S: Motet BWV226 'Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf'

Work length8:08

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Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Bach, J S: Motet BWV230 'Lobet den Herrn alle Heiden'

Work length6:44

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Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Bach, J S: Sei Lob und Preis mit Ehren, BWV 231

Work length4:29

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Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Bach, J S: Der Gerechte kommt um

Work length7:06

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Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Bach, J S: Motet BWV228 'Fürchte dich nicht'

Work length9:39

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Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Bach, J S: Motet BWV227 'Jesu, meine Freude'

Work length22:10

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Elisabeth Priday (soprano), Richard Savage (bass), Ashley Stafford (countertenor), Gillian Fisher (soprano), Neil McKenzie (tenor)
English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir
Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Bach, J S: Motet BWV225 'Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied'

Work length19:33

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Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner

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

Work length3:47

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Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner

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Taken together these motets and quasi-motets form one of the peaks of Bach's art as a composer of choral music. Compressed and complex, they make enormous demands on performers, requiring exceptional virtuosity, stamina and sensitivity to abrupt changes of mood and texture. Bach’s characteristically skilful use of fugue, canon and counterpoint makes this music endlessly fascinating, but most of all these are works of emotional power, revealing Bach's compassionate nature, the dancing joy he takes in praising God, and his total certainty as he contemplates death. John Eliot Gardiner’s extraordinary technical and interpretative skills ensure recognition of the motets and cantatas as some of the best of Bach.

A key figure in today’s musical landscape, John Eliot Gardiner has established a number of ensembles – both instrumental and vocal – that he directs in a wide-ranging repertoire. Baroque music, with which he first made his name, remains very important to him, particularly the works of Johann Sebastian Bach; he has even published a major biographical study of the composer, Music in the Castle of Heaven.

Bach: Motets BWV 225-230, Cantatas BWV 50 & 118

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