Bach: Cantatas, BWV 170 & 35 / Guillon, Le Banquet Celeste

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Release Date
August 24, 2018
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BACH, J.S.
    • PERFORMER
      Le Banquet Celeste, Guillon
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 24, 2018
    • UPC
      3760014193439
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ALPHA343
    • LABEL
      Alpha
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Aria: Vergnugte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Le Banquet Céleste

      Performer: Damien Guillon, Maude Gratton

      Conductor: Damien Guillon

    2. Recitative: Die Welt, das Sundenhaus

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Le Banquet Céleste

      Performer: Damien Guillon, Maude Gratton

      Conductor: Damien Guillon

    3. Aria: Wie jammern

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Le Banquet Céleste

      Performer: Damien Guillon, Maude Gratton

      Conductor: Damien Guillon

    4. Recitative: Wer solte sich

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Le Banquet Céleste

      Performer: Damien Guillon, Maude Gratton

      Conductor: Damien Guillon

    5. Aria: Wie leid ist mir das Leben

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Le Banquet Céleste

      Performer: Damien Guillon, Maude Gratton

      Conductor: Damien Guillon

    6. I. Andante

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Maude Gratton

    7. II. Adagio e dolce

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Maude Gratton

    8. III. Vivace

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Maude Gratton

    9. Concerto

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Le Banquet Céleste

      Performer: Maude Gratton

      Conductor: Damien Guillon

    10. Aria: Geist und Seele wird verwirret (Alto)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Le Banquet Céleste

      Performer: Damien Guillon, Maude Gratton

      Conductor: Damien Guillon

    11. Recitative: Ich wundre mich (Alto)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Le Banquet Céleste

      Performer: Damien Guillon, Maude Gratton

      Conductor: Damien Guillon

    12. Aria: Gott hat alles wohlgemacht (Alto)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Le Banquet Céleste

      Performer: Damien Guillon, Maude Gratton

      Conductor: Damien Guillon

    13. Sinfonia

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Le Banquet Céleste

      Performer: Maude Gratton

      Conductor: Damien Guillon

    14. Recitative: Ach, starker Gott, lass mich (Alto)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Le Banquet Céleste

      Performer: Damien Guillon, Maude Gratton

      Conductor: Damien Guillon

    15. Aria: Ich wunsche nur bei Gott zu leben (Alto)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Le Banquet Céleste

      Performer: Damien Guillon, Maude Gratton

      Conductor: Damien Guillon

    16. Fantasia

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Maude Gratton

    17. Fugue

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Maude Gratton


Throughout his life, Bach showed exceptional talent as a pedagogue. As an orphan who had been obliged to learn everything by himself, he retained the deep-rooted urge to teach and pass on his knowledge. His cantatas are spiritual lessons, just as his keyboard works constitute a tutor in the instrument. It was with his children, first and foremost, that he exercised this talent as a born teacher, and particularly with his prodigiously gifted eldest son, Wilhelm Friedemann. For him he wrote the Two-part Inventions and Three-part Sinfonias; for him too The Well-Tempered Clavier and the Orgel-Buchlein (Little organ book); and this extraordinary method culminated in the Trio Sonatas for organ. The cantata Geist und Seele wird verwirret (Spirit and soul are dumbfounded) BWV 35 is one of the three written for solo alto without choral participation and with reduced instrumental forces. The work comprises two parts, for performance before and after the sermon. Soloist and organ engage in a dialogue charged with the elation of trust in God, brimming with coloratura passages and runs. Also for alto solo, the cantata Vergnugte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust (Contented repose, beloved heart’s desire) BWV 170 dates from just six weeks before Geist und Seele. It too features a solo organ part, later transcribed by Bach for flute and continuo. The cantata is based on a passage from the Sermon on the Mount in which Christ urges his listeners to live in peace with others.