Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantatas Volume 4, BWV 9, 170, 186, 107, 187 [2CD]

Muzyka Barokowa
premiera polska: 04.09.2009
kontynent: Europa
kraj: Anglia
opakowanie: kartonowe etui
opis:
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Kolejne dwa tomy z kantatami Jana Sebastiana Bacha w interpretacji zespołów The Monteverdi Choir i The English Baroque Soloists pod dyrekcją Johna Eliota Gardinera. Warto przypomnieć, że Gardiner zajmuje pozycję wyjątkową na rynku wykonawców muzyki dawnej i barokowej. Może też sobie pozwolić na ekstrawagancje. Kilka lat temu gdy zakłądał firmę fonograficzną Soli Deo Gloria, która rozpoczęła wydawanie kompletu kantat Jana Sebastiana Bacha wielu wieściło szybki koniec tego przedsięwzięcia.
Na szczęście stało się inaczej, nagrania dokonane podczas słynnej 'Bachowskiej Pielgrzymki Kantatowej' uświetniające obchody 250. rocznicy śmierci Bacha, które miały miejsce w sześćdziesięciu kościołach Europy (a także w Nowym Jorku) to prawdziwy skarb Bachowskiej fonografii.

Liner notes:
Cantatas for the Sixth Sunday after Trinity
St Gumbertus, Ansbach

It was inevitably an awkward and jarring transition going straight to Ansbach in Franconia from the magical Scottish island of Iona, where a few of us had commemorated the 250th anniversary of Bach's death. For our daytime celebration in the old Abbey on Iona we had devised a programme composed of some of his most intimate and heart-stopping pieces, which we performed on a day of balmy sunshine against a background of the cries of seagulls and lambs. Our programme for the Ansbach Bach week, in addition to a repeat of Aus der Tiefen, which we had given the previous weekend in Mühlhausen, and two motets, featured Bach's two surviving cantatas for the Sixth Sunday after Trinity: BWV 170 Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust, a cantata for alto and obbligato organ, oboe d'amore and strings, and BWV 9 Es ist das Heil uns kommen her, a chorale cantata from around 1732. Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust is the first of two solo cantatas for alto that Bach wrote in the summer of 1726 to texts published fifteen years earlier by the Darmstadt court librarian Georg Christian Lehms. In that year Bach seems to have had an outstanding singer available, perhaps Carl Gotthelf Gerlach, then a university student who had been a Thomaner under Johann Kuhnau, and was keen to make the most of his talents. On the face of it Bach was setting a pithy but decidedly old-fashioned text rich in baroque imagery at a time when the galant style was coming into fashion and was even beginning to take a purchase on his own church music. It is fascinating to see how he manages to achieve a convincing synthesis of these diametrically opposed modes of expression.[...]

John Eliot Gardiner 2009
From a journal written in the course of the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage

muzycy:
Joanne Lunn (only on CD 1)
Michael Chance (only on CD 1)
James Gilchrist (only on CD 1)
Stephen Varcoe (only on CD 1)
Katharine Fuge (only on CD 2)
Richard Wyn Roberts (only on CD 2)
Kobie van Rensburg (only on CD 2)
Stephan Loges (only on CD 2)
The Monteverdi Choir
The English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner: conductor

utwory:
CD 1
Cantatas for the Sixth Sunday after Trinity
BWV 9 - Es ist das Heil uns kommen her
BWV 170 - Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust
Motet: Der Gerechte kommt um

CD 2
Cantatas for the Seventh Sunday after Trinity
BWV 186 - Ärgre dich, o Seele, nicht
BWV 107 - Was willst du dich betrüben
BWV 187 - Es wartet alles auf dich

wydano: 2009
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