RIAS Chamber Chorus & C.P.E. Bach Chamber Orchestra, Peter Schreier
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Bach’s spectacular choral masterpiece, the Magnificat, remains one of his most popular works. An elaborate ceremonial piece, featuring five soloists, a five-part choir and large orchestral forces, it is the setting for the Virgin Mary’s praise to God on hearing news that she is to bear His son, taken from St Luke’s gospel. It is accompanied by the Missae breves – Bach’s quartet of short but beautiful Lutheran masses.
These lively modern-instrument performances with the C.P.E. Bach Chamber Orchestra, recorded in 1993 at the Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Berlin, are led by the distinguished German conductor and former tenor Peter Schreier, a renowned performer of oratorio. He was the son of a church Kantor and a former member of the Dresden Kreuzchor, and the works of Bach are a major focus of his repertoire.
The soloists include the fine lyric soprano Barbara Bonney, whose performance of ‘Quia respexit’ is described by Gramophone in their review as ‘wonderfully intimate’. She is joined by the great German baritone Olaf Bär and his compatriots mezzo-soprano Birgit Remmert and tenor Rainer Trost, all notable concert artists.
Coro: Magnificat
Aria: Et exultavit spiritus meus
Aria: Quia respexit humilitatem
Coro: Omnes generations
Aria: Quia fecit mihi magna
Aria (Duetto): Et misericordia
Coro: Fecit potentiam
Aria: Deposuit potentes
Aria: Esurientes implevit bonis
Aria (Terzetto): Suscepit Israel
Coro: Sicut locutus est
Coro: Gloria Patri
Messe A-DUR: Kyrie
Messe A-DUR: Gloria
Messe A-DUR: Domine Deus
Messe A-DUR: Qui tollis peccata mundi
Messe A-DUR: Quoniam tu solus
Messe A-DUR: Cum Sancto Spiritu
Messe F-DUR BWV233 Kyrie
Messe F-DUR BWV233 Gloria
Messe F-DUR BWV233 Domine Deus
Messe F-DUR BWV233 Qui tollis pecata mundi
Messe F-DUR BWV233 Quoniam tu solus
Messe F-DUR BWV233 Cum Sancto Spiritu
Messe G-MOLL BWV235 Kyrie
Messe G-MOLL BWV235 Gloria
Messe G-MOLL BWV235 Domine Deus
Messe G-MOLL BWV235 Qui tollis peccata mundi
Messe G-MOLL BWV235 Quoniam tu solus
Messe G-MOLL BWV235 Cum Sancto Spiritu
Messe G-DUR BWV236 Kyrie
Messe G-DUR BWV236 Gloria
Messe G-DUR BWV236 Domine Deus
Messe G-DUR BWV236 Qui tollis peccata mundi
Messe G-DUR BWV236 Quoniam tu solus
Messe G-DUR BWV236 Cum Sancto Spiritu
August 2011
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“Schreier uses modern instruments, but with an awareness of performance practice which yields sparkling playing.”
February 1995
“How beautifully moulded … is the unassuming fugal opening of the F major Mass, followed by an exuberant and brilliantly executed Gloria … Bonney shows exemplary control in “Qui tollis”, as she does so affectingly in the gliding
equivalent in the A major Mass.”
“The Schreier set can be warmly recommended … a fine, fresh account of the Magnificat. He has excellent soloists, notably Barbara Bonney and Olaf Bär, and the … digital sound is first class.”
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Coro: Magnificat
