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Cantatas vol. 2

John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir, Bach Audio CD
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  • Conductor: Gardiner
  • Composer: J.S. Bach
  • Audio CD (1 Mar 2010)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Label: Soli Deo Gloria
  • ASIN: B00361DRGO
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 29,654 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Disc: 1
1. Ach Gott, Vom Himmel Sieh Darein
2. Tenor Sie Lehren Eitel Falsche List
3. Alt Tilg, O Gott, Die Lehren
4. Bass Die Armen Sind Verstort
5. Tenor Durchs Feuer Wird Das Silber Rein
6. Das Wollst Du, Gott, Bewahren Rein
7. Meine Seel Erhebt Den Herren
8. Sopran Herr, Der Du Stark Und Machtig Bist
9. Tenor Des Hochsten Gut Und Treu
10. Bass Gewaltige Stosst Gott Vom Stuhl
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Disc: 2
1. Sinfonia
2. Ich Hatte Viel Bekummernis in Meinem Herzen
3. Sopran Seufzer, Tranen, Kummer, Not
4. Wie Hast Du Dich, Mein Gott
5. Bache Von Gesalznen Zahren
6. Was Betrübst Du Dich, Meine Seele
7. Ach Jesu, Meine Ruh
8. Komm, Mein Jesu, Und Erquicke
9. Sei Nun Wieder Zufrieden
10. Erfreue Dich, Seele, Erfreue Dich, Herze
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It is the spontaneous and commited response of Sir John Eliot Gardiner's musicians which dominates the majority of performances in a project which,astonishingly,happened a decade ago. --Gramophone,June 2010

Collectors of this series will have been eagerly awaiting the volume containing Bach's great t cantata Ich hatte viel Bekummernis(BWV21).here it is ,along with Die Himmel erzahlem(BWV76),another spacious proportioned piece which Bach first performed in May 1723. Fares well throughout. Performance **** Recording **** --BBC Music magazine,June 2010

Collectors of this series will have been eagerly awaiting the volume containing Bach's great t cantata Ich hatte viel Bekummernis(BWV21).here it is ,along with Die Himmel erzahlem(BWV76),another spacious proportioned piece which Bach first performed in May 1723. Fares well throughout. Performance **** Recording **** --BBC Music magazine,June 2010

Collectors of this series will have been eagerly awaiting the volume containing Bach's great t cantata Ich hatte viel Bekummernis(BWV21).here it is ,along with Die Himmel erzahlem(BWV76),another spacious proportioned piece which Bach first performed in May 1723. Fares well throughout. Performance **** Recording **** --BBC Music magazine,June 2010

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2CD English Baroque Soloists/John Elliott Gardiner

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5.0 out of 5 stars Another top job from JEG 7 Mar 2010
By Teemacs TOP 1000 REVIEWER
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Sad that there are now only a few volumes left in this series. Sad too that so many cantatas were lost. One of the problems with this volume was that only two cantatas survive for one particular Sunday (Third after Trinity), so we get a concerto for flute, violin and harpsichord in addition to the two. I've just finished reading Christoph Wolff's "J.S. Bach; the learned musician" (highly recommended) and it's very sad to see how much has been lost. We Bach lovers can only be thankful for what there is and rejoice that the glass is half-full, rather than half-empty).

Still one of those Third after Trinity cantatas is the excellent BWV21 "Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis". The Second after Trinity (on the other CD) has three cantatas, including the great BWV76 "Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes", plus a motet of the same name by Bach's great predecessor Heinrich Schütz.

All are played and sung with the same dedication and excellence that have been the consistent hallmarks of this series.
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5.0 out of 5 stars WITH A DIFFERENCE 12 Aug 2010
By DAVID BRYSON TOP 500 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
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For any newcomers, this is from Gardiner's great 'pilgrimage' series in which he and his colleagues performed all the surviving Bach cantatas during the year 2000 on the liturgical dates for which they were created. 2000 was not just the millennium year, it was the 250th anniversary of the composer's death. What I have yet to understand is the series numbering. This is not chronological in the order of performance, because that was determined by the church calendar. It is not the order in which the sets have been issued either, so what is it? No matter, I suppose. This is #2, and a welcome new addition to my collection.

I own, and have reviewed, coming on for 20 of the series now. With the rarest exceptions the reviews all say much the same things. You will find musicianship of the highest order here, and music of this order requires no less. There is also a sense of commitment and dedication. This is no mere collection of separate performances, you can sense the prevailing spirit of the pilgrimage through them. It all says much for Gardiner's leadership as well as for his overall command of the transcendental corpus of masterpieces that he is re-creating for us. One thing that he tells us in his accompanying essay is that the performances on these two discs (from Paris and Zurich) came at roughly the mid-point of the tour, and there was an anxious period before they had confirmation of the funds to continue. People of faith may find their faith confirmed by the outcome: for the rest of us there is a simple sense of relief, and my own admiration for the sheer spirit of it all is redoubled on finding, as I had expected, that the quality is as high as ever.

Also as usual, the recorded sound is excellent and expertly judged for the style of the works. I am getting to know a lot of the names involved, instrumentalists as well as vocalists, and I know from companion volumes that in many cases they were all literally picking up the works as they went along, but I don't know what sort of expert anyone would have to be who could guess that. As well as Gardiner's own long essays accompanying each disc, there is always a shorter contribution, one per set, by one of the performers. This time we hear from the trumpeter Michael Harrison, whose statement I found exceptionally interesting. Inter alia he tells us that Bach wrote better for the trumpet than anyone else did, and that the trumpet parts in the cantatas stretch the technique of the instrument to its limits. What does all this say about the local musicians who had to bone up on new works of such difficulty during the week prior to the service? It can only have helped stiffen the professionalism of our performers in 2000.

There are a couple of unusual features in this release. One is the inclusion of a short motet by Schuetz to the text (in German of course) 'The Heavens are telling the glory of God'. This precedes Bach's own cantata starting to the same effect, but Gardiner does not know of or try to suggest any link. The Schuetz work is there because he likes it, and if I may say so I like it too. What gluttons for work, or at least for good music, they all must have been, and it is a special bonus to have two new settings to place in the parade of honour alongside Haydn's. There is also space on the second disc, as only two cantatas survive for the third Sunday after Trinity, and the opportunity is taken to include an out-of-the-way concerto, adapted from sundry chamber works in Bach's familiar way, that may, in the conductor's view, represent an attempt by the composer during the 1740's to dabble with the new musical idiom that was, in the hands of CPE Bach, displacing his own in fashionable favour.

I don't think we yet had blogs in 2000, but Gardiner's essays are more or less blogs. They are detailed, learned and loving commentaries on the great works that he has undertaken the duty and claimed the privilege of bringing to us in their remaining entirety. I respectfully part company from his thinking in one way, namely that he finds minute correspondences at times between the texts and the music. Myself, I don't think this was any part of the deal with Bach, although it certainly is with Handel. All Bach's music reflects his unquestioning and overarching faith, and his musical idiom in turn embodies the purest spirit of music, what we sometimes call 'absolute' music. None of this, it seems to me, is concerned with minutiae of references to the words, especially when so many of those are very generalised Sunday stuff. Certainly when Bach sings 'Erfreue dich' he writes joyful music and when he intones 'Sighing weeping, sorrow... etc' his music is grave and sombre. He will even suggest lapping waves for a text about running streams, and he will become livelier when the text becomes livelier, but all in the traditional and established German way. Handel was the radical and experimenter, not Bach, although Gardiner may have a point when he suggests that Handel (who probably knew everything by everyone) might have got the idea for the last chorus in the Messiah from Bach's setting of the same text in BWV 21. It is not a matter of the notes, just of the way the thing is gone about in general.

For newcomers to finish with - take care in handling the discs, which are tricky to extract. Treat them as sacred things.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excelent 7 Jan 2013
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As with all this collection - a good sound, beautifully sung and played. A must for anyone who loves coral music and Bach in particular.
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