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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Apocryphal Bach Masses II
Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam, Solistenquartett der Musikhochschule Bremen, Alsfelder Vokalensemble & Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Wolfgang Helbich This is the sixth release in cpo’s distinguished series of Bach’s apocryphal works in performances led by Wolfgang Helbich. Features the twenty-three part Mass in G major, Magnificat in C major, Cantata BWV 150 and three Sanctus settings. | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Every one a Chaconne
The Bach Players centre this programme on the chaconne: you will hear how Henry Purcell and J.S. Bach join hands in this much-loved dance form of the 17th and 18th centuries. Of the few works of Philipp Heinrich Erlebach that survive, they perform a suite that concludes with a chaconne. The two Bach cantatas are contrasting: BWV150 is said to be Bach’s earliest surviving cantata, BWV78 was composed in Leipzig at the height of his career. There’s something about the openness of sound, the sheer quality of music-making and the sense of connection between performers and composers that makes this a very special recording. Its contents explore the world of the Baroque chaconne, a secular dance form that became a staple of music for the concert room and chapel. The challenge of creating a piece above a repeated bass line certainly appealed to Bach, Purcell and the little-known Erlebach, each on inspired, inventive form in the works offered here. The Bach Players, a London-based collective formed in 1996, reach the music’s emotional heart with tremendous conviction. “If the idea of composing above a repeated bass line sounds like a recipe for boredom, cast your ears towards Bach’s cantata no.78, ‘Jesu, der du meine Seele’ and its delicious duet for soprano and alto, which is vivaciously performed on this recording by Rachel Elliott and Clare Wilkinson. Purcell’s endlessly inventive genius and technical mastery merge beautifully in his Chacony to create an intoxicating musical mix. The Bach Players catch the work’s elegiac grandeur, slowly developing its expressive intensity with each repetition of the English composer’s eight-bar bass.” Classic FM , January 2010 ***** “If the idea of composing above a repeated bass line sounds like a recipe for boredom, cast your ears towards Bach’s cantata no.78, ‘Jesu, der du meine Seele’ and its delicious duet for soprano and
alto, which is vivaciously performed on this recording by Rachel Elliott and Clare Wilkinson. Purcell’s endlessly inventive genius and technical mastery merge beautifully in his Chacony to create an intoxicating musical mix. The Bach Players catch the work’s elegiac grandeur, slowly developing
its expressive intensity with each repetition of the English composer’s eight-bar bass.” Classic FM Magazine, January 2010 ***** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Bach Cantatas Volume 25Cantatas for the Fifth Sunday after Easter & Cantatas for the Sunday after Ascension Day
Bach, J C'ph: | Fürchte dich nicht | Bach, J S: | Cantata BWV86 'Wahrlich, wahrlich, ich sage euch' Recorded: Dresden Katharine Fuge, Robin Tyson, Steve Davislim & Stephan Loges Cantata BWV87 'Bisher habt ihr nichts gebeten in meinem Namen' Recorded: Dresden Katharine Fuge, Robin Tyson, Steve Davislim & Stephan Loges Cantata BWV97 'In allen meinen Taten' Recorded: Dresden Katharine Fuge, Robin Tyson, Steve Davislim & Stephan Loges Cantata BWV44 'Sie werden euch in den Bann tun' Recorded: Sherborne Joanne Lunn, Daniel Taylor, Paul Agnew & Panajotis Iconomou Cantata BWV150 'Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich' Recorded: Sherborne Joanne Lunn, Daniel Taylor, Paul Agnew & Panajotis Iconomou Cantata BWV183 'Sie werden euch in den Bann tun' Recorded: Sherborne Joanne Lunn, Daniel Taylor, Paul Agnew & Panajotis Iconomou |
“Another treasure chest of refreshment and musical surprises...Highlights include the exploratory BWV 150, the jazzy duet from BWV 97, Paul Agnew and David Watkins’s tenor aria with cello accompaniment (BWV 183), and the final Johann Christoph Bach motet – to die for.” The Times, 4th July 2008 **** “There is a genuine pilgrim’s humility about this recording that contrasts tellingly with the magnificence of the achievement. Gardiner has made history.” The Times “This latest volume from Gardiner's 2000 Bach Pilgrimage exudes the now-familiar sense of urgent, excited discovery. None of these cantatas is well known. Yet the power and fertility of Bach's invention are spellbinding...
As ever, Gardiner and his crack forces combine dramatic flair (the turba chorus in No 44 has a shocking ferocity), rhetorical subtlety and a profound feeling for Bach's unique vein of morbid inwardness.” The Telegraph, 9th August 2008 “This is Bach at a very high level - a match for anything else that is currently available on disc.” BBC Music Magazine, August 2008 ***** “Once again, Gardiner’s Monteverdi Choir is the jewel in the crown of each cantata performance. Add to that Gardiner’s dramatic, electric response to music he clearly loves and you have a set that rivals his Gramophone Record of the Year Award-winning disc that launched this amazing series.” Gramophone Magazine “The second Sie werden (BWV183) is the pick of the crop… From the most theatrical of openings, the committed Paul Agnew navigates his way expertly through one of Bach's most extended and contemplative testaments of faith, "Ich fürchte nicht".” Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2008 | | | (also available to download from $21.00) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Bach & Purcell: Motetten und Kantaten
Bach, J Ludwig: | Wir wissen, so unser irdisches Haus | Bach, J S: | Cantata BWV131 'Aus der Tiefe rufe ich, Herr, zu dir' Cantata BWV150 'Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich' | Purcell: | Remember not, O Lord, our offences, Z50 Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary, 1695 Hear my prayer, O Lord, Z15 |
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| |  | Bach Cantatas Volume 23Cantatas for the First and Second Sunday after Easter
recorded: Arnstadt, Echternach “Ich bin ein guter Hirt (BWV85)… conveys the delicate and subtle pastoral conceits of "Christ, the good shepherd" with endlessly alluring dialogues between on-form singers and instrumentalists, notably some disarmingly beautiful oboe playing, a performance of real distinction.” Gramophone Magazine, August 2007 “Each new arrival in John Eliot Gardiner’s massive Bach Cantata Pilgrimage series is still, unapologetically, worth trumpeting…Pure pleasure.” METRO “The seven cantatas here, nominally representing the works for the two Sundays after Easter, cover an unusual range from No 150 to the dazzling maturity of three pastoral cantatas from three different cycles in Leipzig. As Gardiner reminds us in his entertaining diary, the Neue Kirche in Arnstadt is now named after its teenage protégé organist and it seems appropriate that the early cantata Nach dir, Herr, verlangenmich should appear at the very place in which it probably received its premiere. One observes the ostentation of youth where Bach rolls out his command of past and current musica lingua as an advertisement of his ability.
The performances from Arnstadt are generally fresh and satisfying, and in No 150 there is a real sense of occasion. There are significant challenges in the burly orchestral concerto movement which opens Am Abend (No 42) and its long meandering aria 'Wo zwei und drei', bravely negotiated by Daniel Taylor but which, for me, cries out for the embracing security of a fine mezzo or contralto. The bold Halt imGedächtnis (No 67) receives a committed reading but the extraordinarily dramatic scene with bass and chorus (where Christ brings peace and assurance to his ostracised disciples) fails to resonate with special moment.
The more durable performances come from Echternach in Luxembourg. Du Hirte Israel (No 104) is a gloriously poised work, unassuming on the surface and yet requiring the judgement to 'lift' each balletic movement without pushing the pace. Gardiner is only thwarted from hitting the spot by generally uneventful solo singing.
Ich bin ein guter Hirt (No 85), on the other hand, conveys the delicate and subtle pastoral conceits of 'Christ, the good shepherd' with endlessly alluring dialogues between on-form singers and instrumentalists, notably some disarmingly beautiful oboe playing, a performance of real distinction. The concise No 112 (following Psalm 23 to the letter) glows with the same ardour. It is indeed the second disc which establishes the longer-term credentials in this richly endowed and unique series.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 | | | (also available to download from $21.00) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Bach - Cantatas BWV 12, 78, 150 & Motet BWV 118
Veronika Winter (soprano), Damien Guillon (alto), Marcel Beekman (tenor) & Benoît Arnould (baryton) Akadêmia, Françoise Lasserre Françoise Lasserre founded Akadêmia in 1986 after a major musical experience with Philippe Herreweghe. Her journey started with Bach family, Palestrina, Schütz, and at Zig-Zag Territoires Monteverdi (Selva Morale e spirituale et Il combattimento) et récemment Stefano Landi (La Morte d’Orfeo). Two decades later, she returns to Johann Sebastian Bach with the Cantatas. For this disc, I looked for other affinities which were guided neither by liturgical connections nor by the choice of identical instrumentation in all the cantatas or the use of rare instruments. I took as my starting point the Cantata BWV 12, which I am very fond of, and so the theme of the chaconne emerged quite naturally. It so happens that Bach wrote several cantatas based on ostinatos. I therefore selected three cantatas which make particularly elaborate and remarkable use of this form. This album fuels a special aura, of piety, purity with a clever choice of soloists V. Winter, D.Guillon, M. Beekman, B. Arnould. | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | Bach - Actus Tragicus
“The singers are wonderful, never over-acting, and managing to sound as though this marvellous work is being minted afresh for us on the spot. The recording is a beauty: warm and full with plenty of bass, yet with all the soft-grained detail you
could ask for.” CD Review, 15/10/2005 Radio 3 Disc of the Week “The singers are wonderful, never over-acting, and managing to sound as though this marvellous work is being minted afresh for us on the spot...The recording is a beauty: warm and full with plenty of bass, yet with all the soft-grained detail you could ask for.” Andrew McGregor, bbc.co.uk, 17th October 2005 | | | This item is currently out of stock at the UK distributor. You may order it now but please be aware that it may be six weeks or more before it can be despatched. |
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| |  | Bach - Cantatas Volume 1
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| |  | Bach - Cantatas Vol. 46
Arleen Augér, Aldo Baldin, Kurt Equiluz, Nobuko Gamo-Yamamoto, Mechthild Geog, Philippe Huttenlocher, Margret Jetter, Adalbert Kraus, Hanns-Friedrich Kunz, Hildegard Laurich, Peter Maus, Magdalene Schreiber, Helen Watts Bach-Collegium Stuttgart, Frankfurter Kantorei, Gächinger Kantorei, Helmuth Rilling | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | J S Bach - Complete Cantatas Volume 1
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