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The Imaginary Music Book of J.S. Bach

Café Zimmermann

Classical - Released October 1, 2021 | Alpha Classics

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Johann Sebastian Bach has made the reputation of Café Zimmermann ever since the ensemble was formed in 1999. This new recording presents the music of the Kantor from a different angle, that of the notebooks in which musicians wrote down pieces and movements they particularly liked. This recording brings together works composed by Bach in the late 1740s which may be described as intimate in character, including the famous Trio Sonata from his Musical Offering. The Baroque idiom of this "experimental" sonata is contextualised by the innovative style developed by his son Carl Philipp Emanuel in one of his own trio sonatas. A number of arias by J. S. Bach are also presented here with exclusively instrumental forces. Under the direction of violinist Pablo Valetti and harpsichordist Céline Frisch, the ensemble even ventures into Mozartian territory with the Aria and Fugue, K. 404a, taken from two pieces by Bach that Mozart himself had annotated and arranged in his own musical notebook. Finally, a chorale that Bach was particularly fond of, a three-part fugue played here by harpsichord and flute. Carl Philipp Emanuel had it printed at the end of his father’s musical testament, The Art of Fugue: "Before thy throne I now appear". © Alpha Classics

Bach: Lutherkantaten, Vol. 1 (BWV 62, 36, 91)

Christoph Spering

Classical - Released October 28, 2016 | deutsche harmonia mundi

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J.S. Bach: Schwingt freudig euch empor, BWV 36

Netherlands Bach Collegium

Classical - Released November 27, 2022 | Brilliant Classics

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J.S. Bach: Adventskantaten

Philippe Herreweghe

Classical - Released August 1, 1997 | harmonia mundi

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Bach, J.S.: Cantatas, Vol. 13

Joanne Lunn

Classical - Released October 1, 2009 | SDG

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Johann Sebastian Bach : Oster-Oratorium, BWV 249

Philippe Herreweghe

Sacred Oratorios - Released February 1, 1995 | harmonia mundi

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Bach: Cantatas with violoncello piccolo

Christophe Coin

Classical - Released January 1, 1995 | naïve classique

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Johann Sebastian Bach

Víkingur Ólafsson

Solo Piano - Released September 7, 2018 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

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Bach : Contemplation

Anne Queffélec

Classical - Released January 8, 2009 | Mirare

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Bach Motets

Solomon's Knot

Classical - Released June 16, 2023 | Prospero Classical

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Oeuvres pour orgue (Édition 5.1)

Johann Sebastian Bach

Classical - Released October 23, 2012 | Aeolus

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Johann Sebastian Bach : Motets

Monteverdi Choir

Sacred Vocal Music - Released April 30, 2012 | SDG

Hi-Res Distinctions Diapason d'or de l'année - Diapason d'or - Gramophone Award - Choc de Classica
John Eliot Gardiner literally has a lifetime of intimate familiarity with J.S. Bach's six motets without independent instrumental accompaniment; he reports that as a boy chorister of 11 or 12 he knew the treble lines to all of them. That familiarity is evident in these exceptionally insightful and exceptionally well-sung performances with the Monteverdi Choir. The group lives up to its reputation as being in the very highest echelon of choirs worldwide, singing these especially treacherous works with almost superhuman precision, immaculate tone and balance, and infectious, unguarded passion. The singers handle Bach's exquisitely interwoven counterpoint with apparent ease even at the outrageously fast but emotionally appropriate tempos that Gardiner takes. He avoids the academic rigidity that can easily prevail in performances of counterpoint this intricate by always maintaining a dancing sense of lightness and buoyancy. The performances are also characterized by a warm intimacy. That's due at least in part the choir's remarkable control of dynamics; at its quietest moments the music comes across as an almost hushed whisper. That, in combination with the stellar engineering, creates the impression that the listener is being treated to a private performance by singers nearly close enough to reach out and touch. At the same time there is no sense of crowding and the performers have plenty of room for their singing to ring out brilliantly. Gardiner deploys a small continuo group colorfully but discreetly, offering an ideally balanced underpinning for the choir. Listeners who want to hear these small masterpieces need look no further than these exemplary and thoroughly engaging performances. Highly recommended. © TiVo
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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 : "Actus tragicus" (Cantatas BWV 4, 12, 106, 196)

Konrad Junghänel

Cantatas (sacred) - Released July 31, 2007 | harmonia mundi

Distinctions Diapason d'or de l'année - Diapason d'or - Choc du Monde de la Musique - 4F de Télérama
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Johann Sebastian Bach : Ich elender Mensch & Leipzig Cantatas (BWV 44, 48, 73, 109)

Collegium Vocale Gent

Cantatas (sacred) - Released December 20, 2013 | Phi

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J.S. Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244

Bach Collegium Japan

Classical - Released February 7, 2020 | BIS

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“A great joy”: this is how Masaaki Suzuki considers this, his second recording of the St. Matthew’s Passion, made twenty years after the first one, in the Saitama Arts Theatre in Japan in April 2019 for the BIS label. A great opportunity to revisit the work, as in the elapsed time, the conductor and his orchestra have nearly completely recorded Bach’s choral music, including the complete masses and secular and sacred cantatas. As is his custom, Suzuki works with European soloists for this new recording, like the splendid young German tenor Benjamin Bruns, playing the stupendous part of the Evangelist. There are other familiar soloists that feature here, such as Carolyn Sampson, Damien Guillon, Makoto Sakurada and Christian Immler. There is nothing monumental about this new intimate and refined version, which follows the fateful narrative with great sobriety. There is nevertheless a fervent level of impulse, as well as a certain innocence within this resolutely pared back Lutheran perspective - there is never any real search for theatricality. The exceptional instrumental quality of the soloists of the Bach Collegium Japan and the soft touches of the two choral ensembles is also worth highlighting. © François Hudry / Qobuz
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Bach Cantatas, BWV 82 and 199

Lorraine Hunt Lieberson

Classical - Released June 1, 2003 | Nonesuch - Warner Records

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Lux aeterna: Visions of Bach

Beatrice Berrut

Classical - Released January 12, 2015 | Aparté

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