Bach, J S: Cantata BWV170 'Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust'

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JS Bach: Cantatas BWV161, 170 & 177

JS Bach: Cantatas BWV161, 170 & 177


Bach, J S:

Cantata BWV161 'Komm, du süsse Todesstunde'

Cantata BWV170 'Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust'

Cantata BWV177 'Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ'


Barbara Schlick, Rene Jacobs & Nigel Rogers

Basle Boys’ Choir & Linde Consort, Hans-Martin Linde

Virgin Red Line - 2322912

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JS Bach: Cantatas BWV35 & 170

JS Bach: Cantatas BWV35 & 170


Bach, J S:

Trio Sonata No. 3 in D minor, BWV527

Fantasia & Fugue in G minor, BWV542 'Great'

Cantata BWV35 'Geist und Seele wird verwirret'

Cantata BWV170 'Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust'


Damien Guillon (countertenor & direction)

Le Banquet Céleste

Following an extremely promising first album devoted to Dowland, here is another chance to hear Damien Guillon, accompanied by his ensemble Le Banquet Céleste, in a programme of solo cantatas by J. S. Bach.

A noted recitalist, Damien Guillon is also invited to appear under the direction of such leading conductors as Philippe Herreweghe, William Christie, Masaaki Suzuki, and Vincent Dumestre.

“Guillon reveals a Deller-esque intimacy in his approach and production, one of bell-like purity, sailing at the top with enticing honey notes in the lower reaches...Occasionally tempted to over-project and force his sound, Guillon is principally a sensitive chamber musician of a high order...A most gratifying new view of these super-refined creations.” Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2012

“Guillon generally shines in the slower arias, where his sheer vocal beauty has an almost floating quality...Le Banquet Celeste plays with one instrument per part; it has a warm and rich timbre and, under Guillon's own direction, gives him masterful accompaniment.” International Record Review, September 2012

“Guillon explores every detail of the text and makes the most of the contrasts within a cantata, a recitative or an aria...[I] rate [his] performances of these cantatas among the very best on the market.” MusicWeb International, November 2013

A Musical Picture

Zigzag - ZZT305

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Andreas Scholl: The Voice 2

Andreas Scholl: The Voice 2


anon.:

King Henry

O Death Rock me Asleep

Bach, J S:

Cantata BWV35 'Geist und Seele wird verwirret'

Cantata BWV170 'Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust'

Bennet:

Venus' birds whose mournful tunes

Campion:

My sweetest Lesbia

I care not for these ladies

My love hath vow'd

Dowland:

Behold a wonder here

All ye, whom Love or Fortune hath betray'd

I saw my Lady weepe

Can she excuse my wrongs? (First Booke of Songes, 1597)

Go Crystal tears

Now, O now, I needs must part

Come heavy sleep

Ferrabosco, A II:

Four-note pavan

Handel:

Amarilli vezzosa, HWV 82

Johnson, R:

Have you seen the bright lily grow?

Full fathom five

Mando:

Like as the day

trad.:

O Waly, Waly ('The Water is Wide')

I will give my love an apple

Wolkenstein:

Ach, senleicher leiden

Nu rue mit sorgen

Kom liebster man


Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Andreas Martin (lute), Julian Behr (lute), Hélène Guilmette (soprano), Marcel Ponseele (oboe) & Markus Märkl (organ)

Accademia Bizantina & Orchestre du Collegium Vocale, Ottavio Dantone & Philippe Herreweghe

“Whether Scholl’s voice at all resembles that of the great original [Senesino] we cannot know, but it is wonderfully pure and moves with marvellous flexibility. He has the art of making recitative sound spontaneous and of catching the rhythmic impulse as though native to his body.” John Steane, Opera Now

Harmonia Mundi Initiales - HMX2908458/59

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Bach Cantatas Volume  4

Bach Cantatas Volume 4

Recorded live: Ansbach and Haddington, July & August 2000


Bach, J S:

Cantata BWV9 'Es ist das Heil uns kommen her'

Cantata BWV170 'Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust'

Der Gerechte kommt um

Cantata BWV186 'Ärgre dich, o Seele, nicht'

Cantata BWV107 'Was willst du dich betrüben'

Cantata BWV187 'Es wartet alles auf dich'


John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir and The English Baroque Soloists continue on their Bach pilgrimage and head to Ansbach to perform at the prestigious Ansbach Bach Festival. The programme opens with BWV 9 Es ist das Heil uns kommen her. This is then followed by the well known chamber cantata BWV 170 Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust, expertly sung by internationally renowned counter-tenor, Michael Chance. A highlight is the first alto aria - an aria of pure enchantment, which tells, through rich and passionate music, that “pleasant rest” can be attained only though union with heaven. The programme ends with the very moving funeral motet Der Gerechte kommt um, attributed to Bach, an incredibly beautiful five-voiced Latin motet composed by Johann Kuhnau. The magnificence of this motet made this very popular with both the choir and orchestra thereby resulting in it being used as a regular encore on the Bach Cantata pilgrimage.

Thirty miles east from the hustle and bustle of a busy Edinburgh hosting its world famous festival, we join John Eliot and the Monteverdi forces in the collegiate church of St. Mary’s situated in the modest, tranquil market town of Haddington, Scotland. BWV 186 Ärgre dich, o Seele, nicht, comprises eleven movements and is structured in two parts. A movement that stands out is the glorious duet for soprano and alto (No.10), in which the crucial injunction ‘Sei, seele, getreu!’ (‘O soul, be true!’) is reserved until the last two bars. We then hear BWV 107 Was willst du dich betrüben, a chorale cantata set per omnes versus, that is, with all the verses of a hymn set unaltered. Bach here cleverly overcomes the limitations of being confined to a rigidly structured hymn without monotony or repetitiveness through the usual devices of changing the voice type in the arias, the key and the metre. The final chorale, BWV 187 Es wartet alles auf dich is again structured in two parts and comprises of music that is both gentle and seductively beautiful. Bach clearly supports this belief by parodying the music of this cantata a decade later in his G minor Missa (BWV 235).

“Given two separate quartets of soloists, and different configurations of Gardiner’s elite choir and period-instrument band, the results are remarkably consistent, thanks to the force of the conductor’s single-minded personality, unrepentant in his preference for medium-scale Bach...collectors of the series won’t be disappointed.” Sunday Times, 12th July 2009 ***

“Best known among this clutch of cantatas is the solo alto 'Vergnügte Ruh'. Michael Chance turns in a fervent performance, tonally pure and full of expressive nuance. Praise, too, to Susanne Regel for her sensitive oboe d'amore playing.” BBC Music Magazine, September 2009 *****

SDG Gardiner Bach Cantatas - SDG156

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Bach - Cantatas for Alto

Bach - Cantatas for Alto


Bach, J S:

Cantata BWV169 'Gott soll allein mein Herze haben'

Cantata BWV170 'Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust'

Cantata BWV35 'Geist und Seele wird verwirret'


Bernarda Fink (mezzo-soprano)

Freiburger Barockorchester & Vocalconsort Berlin, Petra Müllejans

In 1726 Bach entered a new period of creative innovation in Leipzig: renouncing the chorus, he built up a constant dialogue between solo arias and finely sculpted instrumental parts.The three cantatas presented here represent the culmination of this development, and have established their place as a peak of the recorded repertoire.

"If the public only knew it, singers of classical music can be diamonds every bit as rough as their rock counterparts. But the mezzo-soprano Bernarda Fink is a notable exception: graceful, poised and intelligent, she is every inch the lady, and it's no surprise to learn that she's wife to the Austrian ambassador to Slovenia, the country of her ancestors.This personal elegance colours her approach to performance. She doesn't deliver Bartoli-style show-stopping exhibitionism (she raises her eyebrows slightly when I mention the name), because she is a musician of an older and more dignified school, valuing refinement, subtlety and sensibility over fireworks, and she never sings louder than lovely. Yet there's nothing genteel or pallid about her golden-toned voice.The emotions she evokes in baroque music and Mozart, as well as the more romantic terrain of lieder, Berlioz and Mahler, are marvellously vivid. In the 1980s she moved to Europe, but nothing much happened until she met the conductor René Jacobs, a counter-tenor of note "who understood the way my voice worked" and led her towards the baroque repertory where she has happily dwelt ever since. Bach is her desert island composer, she says, with Monteverdi second. She has sung with Jacobs for almost 20 years, but is equally sought after by great names such as John Eliot Gardiner and Nikolaus Harnoncourt, alternating concerts with lieder recitals, the latter often with the English pianist Roger Vignoles. Opera plays a diminishing part in her schedule.As an ambassador's wife and mother to two, she dislikes being away for long periods and limits herself to "perhaps one set of performances a year": in 2008, it will be Idomeneo, in Barcelona." [with René Jacobs, recorded for harmonia mundi, June release 2009] The Daily Telegraph

“Fink's 'Vergnügte Ruh' is glorious: she floats the opening aria's long lines with the soaring nobility of a Janet Baker, potently complemented by the supple instrumental gravitas of the Freiburgers.” BBC Music Magazine, March 2009 ****

“Fink’s velvet-timbred mezzo evokes to perfection the consoling sentiment of Bach’s alto arias. Vergnügte Ruh has long been a favourite of star mezzos and countertenors, but Fink sings with an artless humility, with eloquent yet never overemphatic German, which is not only balm to the ear, but deeply moving. The other two cantatas may be less well known, but they each contain sublime arias, with elaborate instrumental embroidery superbly supplied by the Freiburg soloists. Unmissable.” Sunday Times, 22nd February 2009 *****

“A disc to treasure.” Sunday Telegraph, 8th February 2008 *****

“A Bernarda Fink recital of these works was always likely to establish itself with a profoundly engaging sense of poetic instinct and rhetorical ease… and she rarely disappoints. Vergnügte Ruh' (BWV170) exudes the greatest vocal and emotional comfort here...” Gramophone Magazine, May 2009

“Fink, with her versatile mezzo tone, meets the cantatas' challenges at all levels. The diction in clear, but her performance really stands out for it's control: vocal control, but also emotional. The feelings expressed are often passionate in the extreme, but her dramatically pared-down approach shuns any melodramatic temptations” Charlotte Gardner, bbc.co.uk, 2nd March 2009

Harmonia Mundi - HMC902016

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J. S. Bach - Cantatas Nos. 170, 82 & 159

J. S. Bach - Cantatas Nos. 170, 82 & 159


Bach, J S:

Cantata BWV170 'Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust'

Cantata BWV82 'Ich habe genug'

Cantata BWV159 'Sehet, wir gehn hinauf gen Jerusalem'


“this group of cantatas ought to be in every collection, and the recordings (mid-1960s) are of Decca's best vintage quality.” Penguin Guide, 2011 edition

Penguin Guide

Rosette Winner

Australian Eloquence - 4762684

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Bach, J S: Cantata BWV170 'Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust', etc.

Bach, J S:

Cantata BWV170 'Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust'

Cantata BWV169 'Gott soll allein mein Herze haben'

So gehst du nun, mein Jesu, hin, BWV500

Es ist vollbracht! Vergiß ja nicht dies Wort, BWV458

Mein Jesu! was fuer Seelenweh, BWV487

Auf! auf! mein Herz, mit Freuden, BWV441

Jesus, unser Trost und Leben, BWV475

Mit Freuden zart

Heut' triumphieret Gottes Sohn, BWV342


Aafje Heynis (contralto), Albert de Klerk (organ), Simon C. Jansen (organ)

Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, Chorus of the Netherlands Bach Academy, Szmon Goldberg, Anton van der Horst

Australian Eloquence - 4683102

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Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra play JS Bach

Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra play JS Bach


Bach, J S:

Cantata BWV54 'Widerstehe doch der Sünde'

Daniel Taylor (countertenor)

Cantata BWV170 'Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust'

Daniel Taylor (countertenor)

Concerto for Oboe & Violin in C minor, BWV1060

John Abberger (oboe) & Jeanne Lamon (violin)

Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor, BWV1067


“Taylor's gentle singing has the perfect atmosphere of sincerely beautiful piety...Charlotte Nediger plays dextrously and movingly, and the conclusion, 'Mir ekelt mehr zu leben', has an easy mood of graceful joy.” Gramophone Magazine, April 2012

GGramophone Magazine

Editor's Choice - April 2012

Analekta - AN29878

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Bach - Favourite Arias and Choruses

Bach - Favourite Arias and Choruses


Bach, J S:

Cantata BWV51 'Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen'

Mass in B minor, BWV232 (excerpts)

Gloria in excelsis Deo; Et in terra pax; Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris; Benedictus qui venit & Osanna in excelsis

Cantata BWV56 'Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen'

Cantata BWV170 'Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust'

St Matthew Passion, BWV244 (excerpts)

Kommt, ihr Töchter; Ich will dir mein Herze schenken; O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde groß; Erbarme dich, mein Gott!; O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden; Gebt mir meinen Jesum wieder & Wir setzen uns mit Tränen nieder

Cantata BWV82 'Ich habe genug'

Mass in B minor, BWV232: Dona Nobis Pacem


Johann Sebastian Bach was an absolute master of all the musical forms of his time except opera, which he never had the opportunity to compose.

Yet in his sacred vocal and choral music he fully assimilated the expressive potential of secular Baroque vocal music with his abiding respect for the music, both sacred and profane, of his predecessors.

This disc, a representative selection of his sacred music, will appeal both to the experienced music lover and to those just beginning to discover Bach’s immortal music.

Naxos - 8572541

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JS Bach: Alto Cantatas

JS Bach: Alto Cantatas


Bach, J S:

Cantata BWV170 'Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust'

Cantata BWV54 'Widerstehe doch der Sünde'

Cantata BWV35 'Geist und Seele wird verwirret'


Maarten Engeltjes (countertenor) & Vincent van Laar (organ)

Concerto d'Amsterdam, Klaas Stok

A fascinating recording of the three alto cantatas, with countertenor Maarten Engeltjes, Concerto d’Amsterdam and Vincent van Laar on the beautiful Bach organ of the Grote Kerk in Dordrecht (Holland).

“an outstanding voice and magnificent 2007 Bach-style organ create an alluring disc, though Engeltjes's lower range becomes submerged in four-second reverberation. Thrilling organ 'concerto' movements.” BBC Music Magazine, August 2012 ****

“Engeltjes sings beautifully and the orchestra's playing is technically assured and stylish.” MusicWeb International, November 2012

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