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Offer,Bach Cantatas Volume 11

Cantatas for the Twentieth Sunday after Trinity (Genoa) & Cantatas for the Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity (London)

Joanne Lunn (soprano), Magdalena Kožená, Sara Mingardo (mezzos), William Towers (alto), Christoph Genz, Paul Agnew (tenors), Peter Harvey, Gotthold Schwarz (basses)

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

Peter Harvey offers an evenly sustained and crisply articulated account of the opening aria [of 162] while Sara Mingardo and Christopher Genz are pleasingly matched in their beautiful C major... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2010, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 1st Jun 2010
Catalogue No: SDG168
Label: SDG
Series: Gardiner Bach Cantatas
Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

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Bach, J S: Cantata BWV162 'Ach! ich sehe, itzt, da ich zur Hochzeit gehe'

Work length16:04

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$7.80

Sara Mingardo (alto), Christoph Genz (tenor), Magdalena Kozená (soprano), Peter Harvey (bass)
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Aria: Ach, ich sehe (Bass)

Track length3:53

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Recitative: O grosses Hochzeitfest (Tenor)

Track length1:42

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Aria: Jesu, Brunnquell aller Gnaden (Soprano)

Track length3:35

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Recitative: Mein Jesu (Alto)

Track length1:41

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Aria Duet: In meinem Gott bin ich erfreut! (Alto, Tenor)

Track length4:11

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Chorale: Ach, ich habe schon erblicket (Chorus)

Track length1:02

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Bach, J S: Cantata BWV49 'Ich geh und suche mit Verlangen'

Work length25:40

$6.00

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Magdalena Kozená (soprano), Peter Harvey (bass)
English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Sinfonia

Track length6:27

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Aria: Ich geh und suche mit Verlangen (Bass)

Track length5:07

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Recitative: Mein Mahl ist zubereit (Bass, Soprano)

Track length2:09

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Aria: Ich bin herrlich, ich bin schon (Soprano)

Track length5:20

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Recitative: Mein Glaube hat mich selbst so angezogen (Soprano, Bass)

Track length1:36

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Aria and Chorale: Dich hab ich je und je geliebet (Soprano, Bass)

Track length5:01

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Bach, J S: Cantata BWV180 'Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele'

Work length22:45

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$9.10

Sara Mingardo (alto), Christoph Genz (tenor), Magdalena Kozená (soprano), Peter Harvey (bass)
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Chorale: Schmucke dich, o liebe Seele (Chorus)

Track length6:53

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Aria: Ermuntre dich: dein Heiland klopft (Tenor)

Track length5:18

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Recitative and Chorale: Wie teuer sind des heilgen Mahles Gaben (Soprano)

Track length2:47

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Recitative: Mein Herz fuhlt in sich Furcht und Freude (Alto)

Track length1:29

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Aria: Lebens Sonne, Licht der Sinnen (Soprano)

Track length3:41

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Recitative: Herr, lass an mir dein treues Lieben (Bass)

Track length1:04

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Chorale: Jesu, wahres Brot des Lebens (Chorus)

Track length1:33

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Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV1090 'Wir Christenleut'

Work length25:10

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Paul Agnew (tenor), William Towers (alto)
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Ich glaube, lieber Herr, hilf meinen Unglauben (Chorus)

Track length8:43

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Recitative: Des Herren Hand ist ja noch nicht verkurzt (Tenor)

Track length1:25

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Aria: Wie zweifelhaftig ist mein Hoffen (Tenor)

Track length6:02

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Recitative: O fasse dich, du zweifelhafter Mut (Alto)

Track length0:33

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Aria: Der Heiland kennet ja die Seinen (Alto)

Track length5:12

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Chorale: Wer hofft in Gott und dem vertraut (Chorus)

Track length3:15

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Bach, J S: Cantata BWV38 'Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir'

Work length16:25

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Paul Agnew (tenor), Gotthold Schwarz (bass), Joanne Lunn (soprano), William Towers (alto)
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir (Chorus)

Track length3:21

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Recitative: In Jesu Gnade wird allein (Alto)

Track length0:47

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Aria: Ich hore mitten in den Leiden (Tenor)

Track length7:22

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Recitative: Ach! Dass mein Glaube noch so schwach (Soprano)

Track length0:58

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Trio Aria: Wenn meine Trubsal als mit Ketten (Soprano, Alto, Bass)

Track length2:49

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Chorale: Ob bei uns ist der Sunden viel

Track length1:08

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Bach, J S: Cantata BWV98 'Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan'

Work length13:17

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$6.50

Paul Agnew (tenor), Gotthold Schwarz (bass), Joanne Lunn (soprano), William Towers (alto)
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan (Chorus)

Track length3:53

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Recitative: Ach Gott! wenn wirst du mich einmal (Tenor)

Track length1:06

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Aria: Hort, ihr Augen, auf zu weinen! (Soprano)

Track length3:36

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Recitative: Gott hat ein Herz, das des Erbarmens Uberfluss (Alto)

Track length1:01

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Aria: Meinen Jesum lass ich nicht (Bass)

Track length3:41

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Bach, J S: Cantata BWV188 'Ich habe meine Zuversicht'

Work length24:33

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Paul Agnew (tenor), Gotthold Schwarz (bass), Joanne Lunn (soprano), William Towers (alto)
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Sinfonia

Track length7:57

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Aria: Ich habe meine Zuversicht (Tenor)

Track length7:08

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Recitative: Gott meint es gut mit jedermann (Bass)

Track length1:59

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Aria: Unerforschlich ist die Weise (Alto)

Track length6:05

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Recitative: Die Macht der Welt verlieret sich (Soprano)

Track length0:34

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Chorale: Auf meinen lieben Gott (Chorus)

Track length0:50

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Recorded live in Genoa (Cattedrale di San Lorenzo) and London (Old Royal Naval College Chapel, Greenwich), November 2000.

Cantatas for the twentieth and twenty-first Sunday after Trinity, recorded live in November 2000. John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir and The English Baroque Soloists head to Italy to give two concerts, one in the cathedral of San Lorenzo in Genoa and one the following day in the basilica of Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome.

We join John Eliot and his forces for the first of these two concerts - a performance of three little-known secular–imaged cantatas in the stunning Gothic cathedral of San Lorenzo. The soloists are internationally acclaimed and include Magdalena Kožená, Sara Mingardo, Christoph Genz and Peter Harvey.

The concert opens with the solemn BWV 162 Ach! ich sehe, itzt, da ich zur Hochzeit gehe (Ah! I see, now, that I have gone to the feast), a cantata brought to life by Salomo Franck’s strongly worded libretto. Bach thrives upon Franck’s love of poetic compounds and polar opposites. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the opening bass aria where we get references to life and death, rays of heaven and fires of hell.

There then follows BWV 49 Ich geh und suche mit Verlangen (I go and seek with longing), a dialogue cantata geared towards creating an atmosphere depicting the beauty of the soul. In his booklet notes, Gardiner states that the best movement is the fourth which he believes to be “a kind of early version of Bernstein’s ‘I feel pretty.’ ”

We then travel back to London for a concert in the Old Royal Navel College Chapel, Greenwich, a perfect architectural and acoustic setting. Bach composed four outstanding works for this Sunday, marvellously contrasted and subtly differentiated by mood and instrumentation.

The earliest of these, BWV 109 Ich glaube, lieber Herr, hilf meinem Unglauben! (Lord, I believe, help Thou mie unbelief), opens the concert. The wonderful opening chorus, a setting of words from St Mark’s gospel, emphasises the tension between belief and scepticism in such personal terms that one wonders whether it mirrors Bach’s own private struggles of faith.

This theme of distress and the yearning for forgiveness continues in BWV 38 Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir (Out of deep distress I cry to you) where Bach, in the final chorus, emphasises this mood by giving all voices full orchestral doubling, including the rare usage of four trombones! After all that accumulated intensity, BWV 98 Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan, dating from November 1726, is exceptionally genial.

“This ongoing recording project ranks as one of the musical events of the decade.” The Observer

Reviews

September 2010

Peter Harvey offers an evenly sustained and crisply articulated account of the opening aria [of 162] while Sara Mingardo and Christopher Genz are pleasingly matched in their beautiful C major duet.

October 2010

Gardiner spots the integrated features of portraying the soft and sensual loves "themes" over these two works...It's the tenor aria [of BWV188] that beguiles above all: a simple polonaise-like testament to the central place of trust. Again, Agnew is telling, and Bach's distillation of its emblematic motif uncannily knowing.

4th July 2010

Stamina and passion remain at the highest levels in this instalment...The Genova concert (Cantatas 162, 49 and 180) features the young Magdalena Kozena among a first-rate team of solo singers...The Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists are incisive and expressive.

4th June 2010

...the soloists – particularly the alto William Towers – were outstanding.

Offer,Bach Cantatas Volume 11

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