Volume 8 is the second release in this new series of luxuriously packaged live recordings from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage and continues the principle of coupling according to feast day.
Johann Sebastian Bach: Warum betrubst du dich, mein Herz, BWV 138
Chorale and Recitative: Warum betrubst du dich (Alto, Tenor)
Recitative: Ich bin veracht (Bass)
Chorale and Recitative: Er kann und will dich lassen nicht (Soprano, Alto)
Recitative: Ach susser Trost (Tenor)
Aria: Auf Gott steht meine Zuversicht (Bass)
Recitative: Ei nun! (Alto)
Chorale: Weil du mein Gott und Vater bist
Johann Sebastian Bach: Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan, BWV 99
Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan (Chorus)
Recitative: Sein Wort der Wahrheit stehet fest (Bass)
Aria: Erschuttre dich nur nicht, verzagte Seele (Tenor)
Recitative: Nun, der von Ewigkeit geschloss'ne Bund (Alto)
Duet Aria: Wenn des Kreuzes Bitterkeiten (Soprano, Alto)
Chorale: Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan
Johann Sebastian Bach: Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen!, BWV 51
Aria: Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen! (Soprano)
Recitative: Wir beten zu dem Temel an (Soprano)
Aria: Hochster, mach deine Gute (Soprano)
Chorale: Sei Lob und Preis mit Ehren (Soprano)
Aria: Alleluja! (Soprano)
Johann Sebastian Bach: Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan, BWV 100
Chorale: Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan
Duet: Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan (Alto, Tenor)
Aria: Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan (Soprano)
Aria: Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan (Bass)
Aria: Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan (Alto)
Chorale: Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan
Johann Sebastian Bach: Komm, du susse Todesstunde, BWV 161
Aria with Chorale: Komm, du susse Todesstunde (Alto)
Recitative: Welt, deine Lust ist Last (Tenor)
Aria: Mein Verlangen (Tenor)
Recitative: Der Schluss ist schon gemacht (Alto)
Wenn es meines Gottes Wille (Chorus)
Chorale: Der Leib zwar in der Erden
Johann Sebastian Bach: Wer weiss, wie nahe mir mein Ende!, BWV 27
Chorale and Recitative: Wer weiss, wie nahe mir mein Ende (Soprano, Alto, Tenor)
Recitative: Mein Leben hat kein ander Ziel (Tenor)
Aria: Wilkommen! will ich sagen (Alto)
Recitative: Ach, wer doch schon im Himmel war! (Soprano)
Aria: Gute Nacht, du Weltgetummel! (Bass)
Chorale: Welt, ade! Ich bin dein mude
Johann Sebastian Bach: Liebster Gott, wenn werd ich sterben, BWV 8
Liebster Gott, wenn werd ich sterben? (Chorus)
Aria: Was willst du dich, mein Geist, entsetzen (Tenor)
Accompanied Recitative: Zwar fuhlt mein schwaches Herz (Alto)
Aria: Doch weichet, ihr tollen, vergeblichen Sorgen! (Bass)
Recitative: Behalte nur, o Welt, das Meine! (Soprano)
Chorale: Herrscher uber Tod und Leben
Johann Sebastian Bach: Christus, der ist mein Leben, BWV 95
Chorus and Recitative: Christus, der ist mein Leben (Tenor)
Recitative: Nun, falsche Welt! (Soprano)
Chorale: Valet will ich dir geben (Soprano)
Recitative: Ach konnte mir bald so wohl geschehn (Tenor)
Aria: Ach, schlage doch bald, selge Stunde (Tenor)
Recitative: Denn ich weiss dies (Bass)
Chorale: Weil du vom Tod erstanden bist
2010
“In 2000 John Eliot Gardiner commemorated the 250th anniversary of Bach's death with theBach Cantata Pilgrimage, a year-long European tour by the English Baroque Soloists and Monteverdi Choir that presented all of Bach's extant cantatas on the appropriate liturgical feast days. Here are the first two instalments of the complete cycle. Soli Deo Gloria's presentation is first class. The CDs are cased in a handsomely designed hardbound book, complete with texts, translations and Gardiner's extensive, informative notes based on a journal he kept during the pilgrimage. The interpretations are consistently fine – often superb, in fact – with surprisingly few wrong steps or disappointments, especially given the unusually gruelling performance schedule that produced them. Among the many mind-blowing, beautiful moments is the deliciously syncopated contralto aria from No 30, sung with poise by Wilke te Brummelstroete and graced by playing of magical delicacy from the EBS. And there's the extraordinary opening chorus of No 8, with its seemingly endless melodic tendrils, chiming flute part and plucked strings, sounding like a celestial dance. Special mention must be made of the artistry of tenor Mark Padmore, who maintains his sweet, ringingly clear tone even in the demanding leaps and roulades of his aria in No 95. It's in delicate or intimate music that Gardiner shines most luminously, and some may find that he unduly emphasises the contemplative. His thoughtful, refined approach is strikingly similar to Suzuki's cycle on BIS, though Gardiner's versions sound just a bit warmer. Although his interpretations offer the finest attributes of period practice – transparency and litheness – there's a long-breathed musicality here that can be lacking in other accounts.”
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Chorale and Recitative: Warum betrubst du dich (Alto, Tenor)
