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~ Stephen Varcoe (Bass), Johann Sebastian Bach (Composer), John Eliot Gardiner (Conductor), English Baroque Soloists (Orchestra), Gillian Keith (Soprano), et al.
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  • Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists
  • Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
  • Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Audio CD (30 April 2007)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Label: SDG
  • ASIN: B000OZ6ZAU
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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Disc: 1
1. 1.Sinfonia (Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich bwv 150)
2. 2.Coro: Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich
3. 3. Aria: Soprano: Doch bin und bleibe ich vergnugt
4. 4.Coro: Leite mich in deiner Wahrheit
5. 5.Aria (Trio- Alto, Tenor, Bass): Zedern mussen von den Winden
6. 6. Coro: Meine Augen sehen stets zu dem Hern
7. 7. Coro: Meine Tage in den Leiden
8. 1. Coro: Halt im Gedachtnis Jesum Christ (Halt im Gedachtnis Jesum
9. 2.Aria: Tenor : Mein Jesus ist erstanden
10. 3. Recitativo:Alto : Mein Jesu, helbest du des Todes Gift
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Disc: 2
1. 1. Coro Du Hirte Israel, hore (Du Hirte Israel, hore BWV 104)
2. 2. Recitativo: Tenor: Der hoschste Hirte sorgt vor mich
3. 3. Aria: Tenor: Verbirgt mein Hirte sich zu lange
4. 4. Recitativo: Bass: ja, dieses Wort is meiner Seelen Speise
5. 5. Aria: Bass: Begluckte Herde, Jesu Schafe
6. 6. Choral: Der Herr is mein getreuer Hirt
7. 1. Aria: Bass Ich bin ein guter Hirt (Ich bin ein guter Hirt BWV 85)
8. 2. Aria: Alto Jesus ist ein guter Hirt
9. 3. Choral: Soprano: Der Herr ist mein getreuer Hirt
10. 4. Recitativo: Tenor: Wenn die Mieltlinge schlafen
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5.0 out of 5 stars MASS-PRODUCED MIRACLES, 4 Jul 2007
By DAVID BRYSON (Glossop Derbyshire England) - See all my reviews
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Gardiner's series of the Bach cantatas is a sort of pilgrimage. The performers are following JSB around the modest circuit of his own life and career and performing in his honour the masterpieces that he had churned out without fail for the successive Sundays of the Lutheran calendar. Nothing in the entire history of music that I know quite matches this astounding output. Sunday after Sunday he had composed and rehearsed works that would have made other composers illustrious if they had taken years to produce them, works radiant with his unquenchable faith in salvation, works of unmatchable professionalism and finish, and works evincing an infinite musical talent that does more than all his scriptures do for me to suggest the presence of something beyond what the rational mind can comprehend.

There are seven cantatas in this 2-disc set, one (the earliest of all the cantatas) for an unknown feast, three for `Low Sunday' as the Catholic communion knows the Sunday after Easter, and the balance for the following Sunday. In my own experience, they are not among the best-known of the cantatas. Nothing in them has the wide popularity of Jesu Joy or Sheep May Safely Graze; and I suspect that nothing in them enjoys the celebrity among connoisseurs of, say, Schlummert ein from cantata 82 or Wir eilen from cantata 78. I would say to that simply -- just hear this collection a couple of times and you will find yourself enjoying inspiration of an order equal to any of those more celebrated pieces. Gardiner and his colleagues understand fully what they are taking on here - for this composer and these compositions anything less than the very best they can do would be an affront. I have no real fault to find with anything they do here. The direction is insightful and deeply sympathetic, and I like the four vocal soloists without exception. In particular the counter-tenor Daniel Taylor has a pure and unaffected tone that comes as a great relief after one has endured certain other singers of this type. The choir and the instrumentalists are established and accomplished experts, and after I started by regretting that the solo violin at one point did not have the gorgeous tone of his or her counterpart at Erbarme dich in my beloved old Muenchinger set of the St Matthew Passion I came round to the view that in the context of the more severe style adopted here such a tone would have been a concession to my own sentimentality and decadence.

The recordings are from the millennium year 2000, which was also the 250th anniversary of Bach's death. Like their artistic counterparts the technical personnel have demanded the highest standards of themselves, and I found the sound at all points both easy on the ear and suitable to the style and scale of the music. Gardiner himself contributes a lengthy and highly personal essay with a strong emphasis on the reactions that this great music evokes from him as an individual, as well as providing insights into the issues of interpretation that he had to resolve. Such were the circumstances of this musical journey that he was under constant pressure of time. He says modestly that he has not aimed at any definitive set of renderings, and I hope he thinks better of us his music-loving public than to expect us to look for that from him or from anyone in music like this.

The set is attractively packaged as a kind of book, and I would only counsel care in extracting the discs, as this is tricky to do without touching the surfaces. Be careful about that: this is sacred music in more senses than one.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Gorgeous, 30 May 2007
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For me, the highlight in this issue are the pastoral cantatas that I've always loved and that occupy the second CD. BWV104 "Du Hirte Israel, höre" is famous for its ravishingly beautiful opening chorale, done in the lilting 9/8 time that gives the more famous "Jesu, joy of man's desiring" (from BWV147) its distinctive sound. BWV85 "Ich bin ein guter Hirt" has a marvellous aria in the same style "Seht, was die Liebe tut". Gardiner has done it again - he gets the tempi just right, not too quick, but never plodding. Moreover, he seems to get right to the heart of Bach's devout Lutheranism, which fires the cantatas - his essays in the booklets are fascinating stuff. I look forward to these issues filling my shelves.
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