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Offer,Bach Cantatas Volume 17

Cantatas for New Year’s Day and the Sunday after New Year

Ruth Holton, Sally Bruce Payne, Lucy Ballard, Charles Humphries, James Gilchrist & Peter Harvey

The Monteverdi Choir & The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

Soloists are superb throughout, Ruth Holton (soprano) specially striking for her transparent almost boy-like tone (BWV 58), and James Gilchrist (tenor) matching instrumental agility while a trio... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2009, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 27th Oct 2008
Catalogue No: SDG150
Label: SDG
Series: Gardiner Bach Cantatas
Length: 95 minutes

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Bach, J S: Cantata BWV143 'Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele'

Work length12:29

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James Gilchrist (tenor), Ruth Holton (soprano), Peter Harvey (bass)
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele (Chorus)

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Chorale: Du Friedefurst, Herr Jesu Christ (Soprano)

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Recitative: Wohl dem, des Hulfe der Gott Jakob ist (Tenor)

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Aria: Tausendfaches Ungluck, Schrecken (Tenor)

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Aria: Der Herr ist Konig ewiglich (Bass)

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Aria: Jesu, Retter deiner Herde (Tenor)

Track length2:47

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Chorale: Alleluja. Gedenk Herr, jetzund an dein Amt (Chorus)

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Bach, J S: Cantata BWV41 'Jesu, nun sei gepreiset'

Work length25:14

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James Gilchrist (tenor), Ruth Holton (soprano), Peter Harvey (bass), Charles Humphries (alto)
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Jesu, nun sei gepreiset (Chorus)

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Aria: Lass uns, o hochster Gott, das Jahr vollbringen (Soprano)

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Recitative: Ach! deine Hand, dein Segen muss allein (Alto)

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Aria: Woferne du den edlen Frieden (Tenor)

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Recitative (and Chorale): Doch weil der Feind bei Tag und Nacht (Bass, Chorus)

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Chorale: Dein ist allein die Ehre (Chorus)

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Bach, J S: Cantata BWV16 'Herr Gott, dich loben wir'

Work length15:42

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James Gilchrist (tenor), Peter Harvey (bass), Charles Humphries (alto)
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Herr Gott, dich loben wir (Chorus)

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Recitative: So stimmen wir bei dieser frohen Zeit (Bass)

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Aria: Lasst uns jauchzen, lasst uns freuen (Bass, Chorus)

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Recitative: Ach treuer Hort (Alto)

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Aria: Geliebter Jesu, du allein (Tenor)

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Chorale: All solch dein Gut wir preisen (Chorus)

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Bach, J S: Cantata BWV171 'Gott, wie dein Name, so ist auch dein Ruhm'

Work length15:31

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James Gilchrist (tenor), Ruth Holton (soprano), Peter Harvey (bass), Lucy Ballard (alto)
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Gott, wie dein Name, so ist auch dein Ruhm (Chorus)

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Aria: Herr, so weit die Wolken gehen (Tenor)

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Recitative: Du susser Jesus-Name du (Alto)

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Aria: Jesus soll mein erstes Wort (Soprano)

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Recitative: Und da du, Herr, gesagt (Bass)

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Chorale: Lass uns das Jahr vollbringen (Chorus)

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Bach, J S: Cantata BWV153 'Schau, lieber Gott, wie meine Feind'

Work length12:33

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James Gilchrist (tenor), Sally Bruce-Payne (alto), Peter Harvey (bass)
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Chorale: Schau, lieber Gott, wie meine Feind (Chorus)

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Recitative: Mein liebster Gott, ach lass dichs doch erbarmen (Alto)

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Arioso: Furchte dich nicht, ich bin mit dir (Bass)

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Recitative: Du sprichst zwar, lieber Gott (Tenor)

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Chorale: Und ob gleich alle Teufel (Chorus)

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Aria: Sturmt nur, sturmt, ihr Trubsalswetter (Tenor)

Track length2:37

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Recitative: Getrost! mein Herz (Bass)

Track length1:32

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Aria: Soll ich meinen Lebenslauf (Alto)

Track length2:24

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Chorale: Drum will ich, weil ich lebe noch (Chorus)

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Bach, J S: Cantata BWV58 'Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid'

Work length13:39

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Ruth Holton (soprano), Peter Harvey (bass)
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Aria with Chorale: Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid (Chorus, Soprano, Bass)

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Recitative: Verfolgt dich gleich die arge Welt (Bass)

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Aria: Ich bin vergnugt in meinem Leiden (Soprano)

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Recitative: Kann es die Welt nicht lassen (Soprano)

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Aria with Chorale: Ich hab fur mir ein schwere Reis (Chorus, Soprano, Bass)

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The final volume to be released this year in John Eliot Gardiner’s award-winning Bach cantata pilgrimage series on SDG. Recorded in January 2000 within the grand neo-Gothic Gethsemanekirche in Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin, the programme features Cantatas for New Year’s Day and for the Sunday after New Year. In contrast to the modest BWV 143 Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele II that opens the programme, Bach begins BWV 41 Jesu, nun sei gepreiset with the fantastically grand opening chorus, Jesu, nun sei gepreiset. The jewel in this particular cantata is the tenor aria ‘Woferne du den edlen Frieden’ (No.4), wonderfully rich and descriptive. BWV 171 Gott, wie dein Name, so ist auch dein Ruhm is equally magnificent as a cantata replete with emotional and thematic contrast. As the tenor (No.4) pleads for salvation in BWV 153 Schau, lieber Gott, wie meine Feind, crying ‘…help, Helper, help! Save my soul!’, we are reminded that our afflictions have been heard as the alto (No.8) sings of the ‘blessed rapture and eternal joy’ of heaven. BWV 58 Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid II continues this theme of the beleaguered Christian. This is beautifully illustrated through the use of the distressed, persecuted soul (soprano) in dialogue with a guardian angel, by implication, Jesus (bass).

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January 2009

Soloists are superb throughout, Ruth Holton (soprano) specially striking for her transparent almost boy-like tone (BWV 58), and James Gilchrist (tenor) matching instrumental agility while a trio weaves heavenly counterpoint around him in BWV 171. Instrumentalists are no less polished... Altogether, Gardiner and his team at their very best.

2010

Performed on the first days of the new millennium, this Pilgrimage volume has an especially candid coherence about it. These six New Year cantatas consistently speak of new prospect and a consolidated ambition to serve God's purpose.
If trumpets predominate in the festive exulting of the first four cantatas, the forces diminish markedly in Nos 153 and 58, partly because the theme of joy is startlingly checked by the fear of evil influence but, also, because Bach's hardworking troupe would have been sung-out after a busy Christmas. The resonant Gethsemanekirche in Berlin is beautifully handled throughout by both Gardiner and his engineers.
Most stirring perhaps is the bold canvas of Jesu, nun sei gepreiset, whose energetic climbs (with, in the opening chorus, one exceptional break to wave farewell on the words 'that we in prosperous peace have completed the old year') are negotiated with exceptional bravura. Then, later, there's a pastoral aria with oboe contours of shepherding solace that one recognises from the Christmas Oratorio.
If pickings are rich here, the 'guardian' arias are most illuminatingly realised by James Gilchrist, notably in 'Woferne' from the same cantata, whose piccolo cello circumnavigates the all-encompassing grace of the vocal line. Possibly even more beguiling is the conceit of untainted bliss in 'Geliebter Jesu' in No 16 with its stunning oboe da caccia accompaniment.
Bach instils an innocence and trust here which Peter Harvey virtuosically sets up in the great solo nestling between the exhortations of the maverick aria-chorus, 'Lasst uns jauchzen'.
The opening cantata, No 143, may be a spurious work: there's something of the apprentice about it. This could not be further from the truth in the concise masterpieces No 153 and 58. In the former, there's something touching about Sally Bruce-Payne emerging from the Monteverdi Choir to sing her cathartic 'Soll ich meinen' after the mental breakdown of 'Stürmt nur' (a fine 'rage' aria). Ach Gott, wie manchesHerzeleid is given a slightly brittle reading here.
Gardiner reminds us again here that his hitrate is exceptionally high.

February 2009

Splendid New Year cantatas from the very earliest days of the Pilgrimage. Most stirring perhaps is the bold canvas of Jesu, nun sei gepreiset, whose energetic climbs… are negotiated with exceptional bravura.

All [cantatas] are beautifully performed by the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists, with the tenor James Gilchrist outstanding for his stylish grace.

Offer,Bach Cantatas Volume 17

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