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Bach : "Actus tragicus" (Cantatas BWV 4, 12, 106, 196)
Konrad Junghänel
Cantatas (sacred) - Released July 31, 2007 | harmonia mundi
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Bach: Cantatas BWV 198 "Trauerode", BWV 106 "Actus Tragicus", BWV 196 "Der Herr denket an uns", BWV 53 "Schlage doch, gewünschte Stunde"
Coro della Radio Svizzera
Classical - Released November 7, 2006 | Arts Productions Ltd
Just about but not quite completely negligible, Diego Fasolis' disc of three of Bach's darker Cantatas performed with the mealy mouthed Coro della Radio Svizzera of Lugano and the fumble-fingered I Barocchisti is almost but not altogether terrible. In Bach's doleful Trauer-Ode, Fasolis' tempos are far too fast, his understanding way too superficial, and only Nancy Argenta cool soprano saves the performance from ignominy. In Bach's consoling Actus tragicus, Fasolis' rhythms are far too flaccid and his understanding is still way too superficial and Nancy Argenta's icy soprano does nothing to save the performance from embarrassment. In Bach's ardent Der Herr denket an uns, Fasolis' textures are turgid, his understanding is even more superficial and while the conspicuous addition of tuned bells to the orchestra does nothing to save the performance from disgrace, it sure does add to the amusement value of the disc. After all, how many other discs featuring "authentic" performances of Bach include tuned bells? Arts' sound is shallow, dry, and close.© TiVo
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Sinfonia - Instrumentale Delen Uit De Cantates
Ton Koopman
Classical - Released November 1, 2010 | Challenge Classics
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J.S. Bach: Der Herr denket an uns, BWV 196
Holland Boys Choir
Classical - Released April 2, 2023 | Brilliant Classics
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J. S. Bach: Cantates BWV 180, 49 & 115
Christoph Prégardien
Classical - Released January 1, 1994 | naïve classique
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Oeuvres pour orgue (Édition 5.1)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Classical - Released October 23, 2012 | Aeolus
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J., J.-Ch., J.-M Bach : Motetten
Vox Luminis
Sacred Vocal Music - Released May 18, 2015 | Ricercar
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Read the graphics carefully: no motets by Johann Sebastian Bach (except for one piece generally attributed to Johann Christoph Bach, but possibly the work of J.S.) are included here. Instead there are works by three of J.S. Bach's ancestors in the 17th century, including the very first composer in the 250-year Bach musical clan, Johann Bach (1604-1673). It's usually the Bach sons whose music is recorded, and all three of these composers qualify as obscure. Considering the fact that J.S. Bach set himself the task of compiling this music and obviously admired some of it, there will be reason enough for many buyers to acquire this Outhere release. There are certainly flashes of the characteristic Bach genius in a few of these works. Try the Johann Michael Bach motet Halt, was du hast (CD 1, track 7), and note the complexity with which the chorale Jesu, meine Freude is treated: it's hard not to think that the younger Bach had this in mind when he approached the chorale himself in the motet medium. The music on the album traces the passage of Italian styles across Germany while remaining firmly rooted in the chorale tradition, and the composers' flexibility in combining these elements must have had a general impact on the most talented Bach of them all. The performances of the small Vox Luminis choir with the Scorpio Collectief -- a quintet of winds and brasses with organ continuo -- are generally sparse, with one voice per part. This is questionable in music that took the great cathedral choirs of Venice for its performance model, but it's listenable and puts across the stylistic distinctions effectively. Recommended for Bach fans.© TiVo
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J.S. Bach: Piano Transcriptions
Kotaro Fukuma
Classical - Released June 18, 2021 | Naxos Japan
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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 333: 4-Part Chorales
Augsburger Domsingknaben
Classical - Released October 5, 2018 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
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Bach, J.S.: Cantatas, Vol. 5 - Bwv 45, 46, 101, 102, 136, 178
Robin Tyson
Choral Music (Choirs) - Released September 1, 2008 | SDG
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Bach : Cantatas Vol. 14
Ton Koopman
Classical - Released January 1, 2003 | Challenge Classics
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Bach, J.S.: Cantatas, Vol. 17 - Bwv 16, 41, 58, 143, 153, 171
Ruth Holton
Choral Music (Choirs) - Released January 1, 2008 | SDG
The Bach Cantata Tour of conductor John Eliot Gardiner and his Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists began on Christmas Day 1999 and continued through the year 2000. Its intent was to perform all of Bach's cantatas in their proper places in the liturgical year, at various musically significant locations around Europe. When multiple cantatas for a specific liturgical event survive, the group performed all of them at the concert and was a rich source of insights. Accompanied by excerpts from Gardiner's tour diaries in the handsomely designed booklets, the recordings of the concerts (enhanced only lightly with material from recorded rehearsals) capture the immediacy of live performances; they have a few blemishes and a lot of high points. The set has a cumulative impact, but collecting the whole thing is an expensive proposition. This double disc, capturing performances from Berlin's Gethsemanekirche from New Year's Day and January 2, 2000 (the beginning of the new millennium, if you agree to that way of counting it), may not be the best place to start sampling. The problem is the church's acoustics. Gardiner was asked about them by German interviewers and dutifully reports his retort that Berlin isn't exactly overflowing with suitable churches, and that anyway he liked the church's history of protest (it played a key role at the time of the dissolution of the German Democratic Republic and continues to host peace activism). The engineers do very well, considering; the soloists are easy to hear and understand. But the overall sound is muddy. Even so, the excitement of the millennium-opening concert comes through well, and the remarkable set of soloists Gardiner assembled for the event was in fine form. The standout is tenor James Gilchrist, in the gloriously long aria "Woferne du die edlen Frieden" (track 11), from the Cantata No. 41, Jesu, nun sei gepreiset, BWV 41. Gardiner's booklet notes are almost reason enough to purchase these discs in themselves, and his warm, humanistic interpretations in print are perfect counterparts to his music-making. Recommended, although not the first release to buy from this series.
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Bach: L'art du choral
La Camerata Baroque
Classical - Released January 12, 2015 | HORTUS
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Bach Motets
Valentin Tournet
Classical - Released July 1, 2022 | Château de Versailles Spectacles
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Valentin Tournet and his choral and instrumental ensemble, La Chapelle Harmonique (founded in 2017), are newcomers to the French Baroque scene. Here they offer their second recording dedicated to Johann Sebastian Bach. This stunning album was recorded in the—almost too—generous acoustics of the Royal Chapel of the Palace of Versailles, where this style would have been unheard of in the time of Louis XV.This joyous and original Latin take on Bach’s Motets contrasts with more introspective listening habits. The six Bach Motets are difficult to define. They evoke searching questions with regard to their attribution and interpretation. Were they all truly composed by Bach? Are they intended for an acapella choir (i.e., unaccompanied)? Should they be supported by basso continuo, or even an organ and instruments?Commonly composed to honour the memory of the deceased and to accompany the raising of the corpse, they are works of incredible musical depth that were admired by Mozart. They combine a certain succinctness with a complexity of writing that specifically enhances the vocal text. The present programme also contains echoes of other works, particularly two choral compositions (composed by Bach’s predecessors and reworked by Bach). © François Hudry/Qobuz
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Bach. Praise : Cantatas BWV 26, 41, 95, 115, 137, 140
Christoph Spering
Classical - Released February 14, 2020 | deutsche harmonia mundi
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J.S. Bach: Cantatas BWV 29, 119 & 120
Philippe Herreweghe
Classical - Released May 1, 2000 | harmonia mundi
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J. S. Bach: L'œuvre pour orgue, Vol. 10 & 11
Michel Chapuis
Classical - Released January 1, 1988 | naïve classique
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Johann Sebastian Bach organ works: Leipzig Chorales
Johann Sebastian Bach
Classical - Released February 1, 2009 | Passacaille
There have been many outstanding recordings of Bach's Leipzig Chorales, his final organ works, but this 2009 recording by Italian scholar and organist Lorenzo Ghielmi is as fine as any and better than most. Combining a superlative technique -- there's nothing here he can't play, with discerning taste -- there's nothing here that smacks of bombast, and a highly developed feel for the idiom, Ghielmi is as deeply under the skin of these pieces as could be desired. Beyond that, the Italian organist grasps the particular spirit of these Chorales and their special status as the composer's last works for the instrument with which he was most closely associated, and his interpretations are filled not just with spectacular virtuosity, but with profound feeling. Ghielmi's moving, almost otherworldly performance of Von deinen Thron tret ich, BWV 668, should inspire listeners to seek out the organist's many other recordings. Recorded in the Basilica of San Simpliciano in Milan, the digital sound is amazingly vivid and overwhelmingly immediate.
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