Bach: Cantatas Vol 12 / Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists

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SDG is delighted to release Volume 12 - Cantatas for the twenty-second and twenty-third Sundays after trinity. John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir and The...
SDG is delighted to release Volume 12 - Cantatas for the twenty-second and twenty-third Sundays after trinity.

John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir and The English Baroque Soloists performed both of these programmes in England: at All Saints church in Tooting and at Winchester Cathedral, in November 2000.

The soloists include James Gilchrist, Peter Harvey and Joanne Lunn.

The highlight of this album is Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (“Sleepers, wake”) - one of Bach’s best known cantatas, and one that has long been part of the Monteverdi Choir’s repertoire. It is described as “a cantata without weaknesses, without a dull bar, technically, emotionally and spiritually of the highest order”.

Ich armer Mensch, ich Sündenknecht (“I, wretched man, I slave to sin”) is Bach’s only cantata for solo tenor still in existence. It is sung movingly by James Gilchrist.

Of three cantatas on the parable of the unjust steward (BWV 55, 89, 115), Mache dich, mein Geist, bereit (“Prepare yourself, my soul”) is considered to stand out for its subtle instrumental writing and spellbinding arias, which evoke the yearning of the soul for divine mercy.

The recording in Tooting (CD1) is the only one in the whole series that wasn’t recorded live: the original concert took place in Eton chapel, right under the Heathrow airport flight path, so we had to try and recreate the same conditions in a quieter place.

This album is packaged with a separate index sheet of the Cantata series.


Product Description:

  • Release Date: October 26, 2010


  • UPC: 843183017126


  • Catalog Number: SDG 171


  • Label: SDG


  • Number of Discs: 2


  • Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach


  • Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner


  • Orchestra/Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir


  • Performer: Gillian Keith, Hilary Summers, James Gilchrist, Joanne Lunn, Peter Harvey, Robin Tyson, Susan Hamilton, William Kendall



Works:

  1. Ich armer Mensch, ich Sündenknecht, BWV 55

    Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir

    Performer: James Gilchrist (Tenor), Peter Harvey (Bass), Joanne Lunn (Soprano), Robin Tyson (Countertenor)

    Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner


  2. Was soll ich aus dir machen, Ephraim, BWV 89

    Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir

    Performer: James Gilchrist (Tenor), Peter Harvey (Bass), Joanne Lunn (Soprano), Robin Tyson (Countertenor)

    Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner


  3. Mache dich, mein Geist, bereit, BWV 115

    Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir

    Performer: James Gilchrist (Tenor), Peter Harvey (Bass), Joanne Lunn (Soprano), Robin Tyson (Countertenor)

    Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner


  4. O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 60

    Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir

    Performer: James Gilchrist (Tenor), Peter Harvey (Bass), Joanne Lunn (Soprano), Robin Tyson (Countertenor)

    Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner


  5. Wohl dem, der sich auf seinen Gott recht kindlich kann verlassen!, BWV 139

    Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir

    Performer: Susan Hamilton (Soprano), Peter Harvey (Bass), Gillian Keith (Soprano), William Kendall (Tenor), Hilary Summers (Alto)

    Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner


  6. Nur jedem das Seine, BWV 163

    Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir

    Performer: Susan Hamilton (Soprano), Peter Harvey (Bass), Gillian Keith (Soprano), William Kendall (Tenor), Hilary Summers (Alto)

    Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner


  7. Falsche Welt, dir trau' ich nicht, BWV 52

    Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir

    Performer: Susan Hamilton (Soprano), Peter Harvey (Bass), Gillian Keith (Soprano), William Kendall (Tenor), Hilary Summers (Alto)

    Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner


  8. Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140

    Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir

    Performer: Susan Hamilton (Soprano), Peter Harvey (Bass), Gillian Keith (Soprano), William Kendall (Tenor), Hilary Summers (Alto)

    Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner