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Johann Sebastian Bach : Cantates (Volume 18)

John Eliot Gardiner

Cantatas (sacred) - Released October 1, 2010 | SDG

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J.S. Bach Oratorio de Noël

Philippe Herreweghe

Classical - Released March 16, 2018 | Warner Music Group - X5 Music Group

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J.S. Bach: Organ Works, Vol. 5

Masaaki Suzuki

Classical - Released March 1, 2024 | BIS

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Masaaki Suzuki's Bach organ recordings, something of a labor of love after the completion of his magisterial cantata cycle, have been well-received; this one landed on classical best-seller charts in early 2024. It is the second of a pair recorded on a 1737 organ at the Stiftskirche St. Georg in Grauhof, Lower Saxony, Germany. The builder was Christoph Treutmann, one of the greats of the age, and if it is not an organ Bach played, it is certainly one he would have regarded as state-of-the-art. Both this release and its predecessor, Vol. 4 in Suzuki's series, feature intricate chorale settings from the Orgelbüchlein, played on this organ and tied to the liturgical year; this volume features chorales for Easter (and the album was released just in time for that holiday) along with other settings and a few framing preludes and fugues. Suzuki on the organ is recognizably the same musician who led the Bach Collegium Japan on his famed cantata recordings; he is lofty, precise, and warm. The Treutmann organ is ideal for both the repertory and the performer; in many registrations it has an edgy, rather acid sound that clarifies Bach's complex polyphony beautifully. Also, sample the double setting of "Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier," with its contrasting textures. The BIS label's well-known engineering expertise is applied profitably to this small German church on a recording that one suspects Bach would have greatly admired.© James Manheim /TiVo
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Johann Sebastian Bach: The Complete Works for Keyboard, Vol. 7: Orgelbüchlein, BWV 599-644 (with choir)

Benjamin Alard

Choral Music (Choirs) - Released October 14, 2022 | harmonia mundi

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With its forty-five chorale preludes, the Orgelbüchlein bears witness to a mastery of the art of improvisation on the organ, as the congregation heard it at the time before singing the hymn in its turn. It was a tempting experiment to revive this primary function: by collaborating with the combined forces of the Ensemble Vocal Bergamasque and the Maîtrise de Notre-Dame de Paris, Benjamin Alard gives the "little organ book" its full significance and expressive power. © harmonia mundi
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Bach: Redemption

Anna Prohaska

Classical - Released June 26, 2020 | Alpha Classics

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Anna Prohaska asked Wolfgang Katschner and the Lautten Compagney at the outset of the coronavirus crisis whether they shouldn’t spontaneously organize a musical get-together in this period. This has now resulted in "Redemption". This is a sequence of music selected solely from Bach cantatas, compiled in keeping with the aforenamed conceptual association. "Redemption" has multiple meanings, for instance: can music give us consolation in times of sickness and crisis; can it open up emotional and contemplative spaces for us; is it redemptive for musicians to be the “instruments” in engendering music and therefore spirituality… ? Besides Anna Prohaska as soloist and three other singers, "Redemption" features a larger group of musicians – around twenty instrumentalists. These musicians serve a dual role: they expertly accompany the arias that Anna Prohaska sings and they also represent the concept of human interaction and a shared collective experience which has been missing during these times. © Alpha Classics
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Bach: Weihnachts-Oratorium, BWV 248

Bachchor Mainz

Classical - Released October 12, 2018 | Naxos

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Weihnachtsoratorium

La Petite Bande

Classical - Released November 21, 2014 | Challenge Classics

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New Concertos

Capricornus Consort Basel

Classical - Released September 18, 2020 | Christophorus

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Handel did it, as did Mozart, Berlioz, even Busoni, as well as most composers in music history and even Johann Sebastian Bach: they all parodied the works of their ancestors and contemporaries. Moreover, Bach was a great master in using his own works for new purposes. For this release, the Capricornus Consort Basel has adapted organ works by Johann Sebastian Bach for string ensemble, which has a special appeal. On the one hand, the organ sound is transformed into an (extremely homogeneous) string sound. In addition, the Capricornus Consort creates completely new listening impressions of the well-known organ works through its differentiated, historically informed way of playing. This release is not only a pleasure for organ lovers, but for all! © Christophorus
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Bach: Christmas Oratorio

Orchestra Of The Age Of Enlightenment

Classical - Released November 3, 2013 | Hyperion

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Bach's Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248, consists of a set of six cantatas, each with recitatives, arias, and chorales. Moreover, some of the music for this most solemn of Christian events was borrowed by Bach from his own secular compositions. Yet it is a unified work, designated by Bach himself as an oratorio, and the biblical narration of the Christmas story is worked into the usual recitative-aria structure. There aren't any melodies in the work that are really among Bach's greatest hits, but the ingenuity of the work as a whole lies in the way it's somehow greater than the sum of its parts. That's the appeal of this version by conductor Stephen Layton, four of his favored soloists, the Choir of Trinity College, and the period-instrument Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment: it respects the small scale of the parts but treats the whole with the weight it deserves. Credit for the balance must go to Layton, who has gotten splendid results from the youthful Cambridge choristers in a variety of common repertory works. They enunciate clearly, hit the pitches precisely, and generally seem excited by what they're doing. The always lively Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment is a perfect partner for the choir, and the soloists engage with the text and convey the feeling that they're in the ballpark of the ones who originally performed the work. There are more daring performances of the Christmas Oratorio on all fronts, but few that make such a satisfying and musical impression.© TiVo
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Bach: Cantatas BWV 170 & 169, Sacred Arias, Sacred Lieder

Aafje Heynis

Classical - Released July 7, 2022 | Alexandre Bak - Classical Music Reference Recording

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Johann Sebastian Bach : Orgelbüchlein (Petit livre de chorals liturgiques), BWV 599-644

André Isoir

Classical - Released January 1, 2013 | La Dolce Volta

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Bach, J.S.: Cantatas, Vol. 16 - Bwv 28, 122, 152, 190, 225

Monteverdi Choir

Classical - Released January 1, 2000 | SDG

As in his previous volumes of Bach cantatas in this series, John Eliot Gardiner brings a velvet-gloved, yet iron-fisted approach to Bach. His tempos are supple and his lines are radiant, but the singleness of vision and strength of will are inflexible. As always, the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists are both formally and expressively under his firm control. This doesn't mean Gardiner won't allow his vocal soloists considerable interpretive leeway. Soprano Gillian Keith and bass Peter Harvey are marvelously free in the duet between the Soul and Jesus in Tritt auf die Glaubensbahn (Walk the Path of Faith) (BWV 152). But the musical context is wholly Gardiner's. The packaging and production values are, as always, superlative. Recorded live in St. Bartholomew's in New York on the Sunday after Christmas, December 31, 2000, the sound here is ideally balanced, perfectly clear, and utterly natural. Unlike most volumes in this series, however, this is a single-disc package, and so it makes a good introduction to both Bach's cantatas and to Gardiner's approach to them for buyers who would like to test the waters without investing too much money. © TiVo
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Bach : Weihnachts-Oratorium

Ruth Ziesak

Classical - Released December 27, 2000 | CapriccioNR

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Johann Sebastian Bach: Weihnachtsoratorium / Christmas Oratorio (BWV 248)

Thomanerchor Leipzig

Classical - Released October 15, 2010 | Rondeau Production

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J.S. Bach: Weihnachtsoratorium

Ensemble Resonanz

Classical - Released December 1, 2017 | Resonanzraum UG

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There are many ways of celebrating Christmas. Ensemble Resonanz comes up with a musical ceremony based on a chamber version of the most popular work of the Advent season, Bachs Christmas Oratorio. The score remains untouched, regarding the instrumentation there are new aspects: an electric guitar or a hammond organ as continuo instruments, just one trumpet doing the job of three and the whole ensemble singing the chorals.
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Johann Sebastian Bach: Transcriptions

Ensemble Contraste

Classical - Released February 25, 2013 | La Dolce Volta

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Bach: Desire - Cantates 32, 49 & 154

Caroline Weynants

Classical - Released November 9, 2010 | Passacaille

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Magna Sequentia III

Sonia Rubinsky

Classical - Released October 11, 2019 | Naxos

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Following on from the two large sets of dance suites, "Magna Sequentia I" and "Magna Sequentia II", "Magna Sequentia III" is a contemplative collection featuring a varied group of pieces that spans Bach’s compositional career, from very early works such as the Prelude from the Suite in F minor to works from the end of his life, such as the Ricercar a Tre from The Musical Offering. © Naxos
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Barnaby Smith: Bach

Barnaby Smith

Classical - Released February 17, 2023 | VOCES8 Records

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Barnaby Smith is best known as the leader of the small ensemble Voces8, but he is also an accomplished countertenor who, in 2021, released a popular album of arias simply titled Handel. That whetted listener's appetites for more, and this 2023 release, similarly titled Bach, delivers. Smith's voice is perhaps even stronger than it was on the earlier release, though it's impressively creamy and sweet at the top, it isn't terribly powerful in the middle ranges. In Bach, power across the board matters less than in Handel, and Smith is beautifully suited to the warmth of the music. The program loosely traces the liturgical year in a way that allows Smith to feature a number of Bach's greatest hits, and this works well. The match between Smith and the Illyria Consort under leader and violinist Bojan Čičić is ideal; Čičić's is a small ensemble, and it fits the dimensions of Smith's voice perfectly. There are two complete cantatas, plus some well-known arias from the Mass in B minor, BWV 232, the Passion settings, and the Easter and Christmas oratorios. The version of the Cantata No. 82, BWV 82 ("Ich habe genug"), is the one for alto made by Bach himself in the 1730s, and Smith is memorable indeed. Smith is a student of Andreas Scholl and has the same orientation toward vocal beauty, even if not quite (yet) the blooming power. The future of countertenor singing is in good hands here in a Bach album of great general appeal.© James Manheim /TiVo
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J.S. Bach: Famous Works on Pedal Harpsichord

Luc Beauséjour

Classical - Released March 1, 2011 | Analekta

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