Make a Joyful Noise [Import]

Pachelbel (Artist), Cantus Colln (Artist), Junghanel (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 11, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Bmg Int'l
• ASIN: B000001TY7
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #382,833 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Make A Joyful Noise

2. Now Thank We All Our God

3. Let God Arise

4. Be Not Afraid

5. A Righteous Man

6. Restore Us Again

7. My Soul Magnifies

8. The Lord Reigns

9. I Shall Not Leave Thee

10. God Is Our Refuge

11. My Heart Is Steadfast

12. The Lord Reigns

13. Keep What Thou Hast

14. Do Not Be Afraid

15. O Sing To The Lord

16. Make A Joyful Noise

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars Superb Motets! Superb Choir!, December 20, 2007

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Amazonian shoppers who've encountered my reviews of Renaissance and Baroque vocal music might remember that I'm often skeptical of performances by choirs rather than one-on-a-part ensembles, both for stylistic and recording-technological reasons. This performance by Cantus Colln, under Konrad Junghanel, belongs in a different category. The 16 motets by Johan Pachelbel and two of the older members of the Bach family are extremely suitable for choral treatment. The sound quality is exceptionally clear and realistic. Best of all, Cantus Colln is a choir of top-notch professional singers such as Maria Christine Kiehr and Gerd Turk; I'd crawl out on the limb and say this is the best choir I've ever heard. The CD is not new; it was released in 1994, and I'm disappointed in myself for not having heard it before.
Pachelbel and the two Bachs (Johan Christoph & Johan Michael) were Johan Sebastian's most obvious influences, even more clearly so than the more commonly attributed influence of Buxtehude. Bach wrote in a local tradition, that of Thuringia, though he certainly expanded that tradition to world-scope. These motets are on the whole less complex than JS's, but full of brilliant counterpoint and luscious harmony, and quite a lot more joyful, less spiritually anguished. Pachelbel was immensely popular in his time and one can understand why. What's hard to understand is the subsequent neglect of his and other 17th C master's works throughout the centuries since.
If you happen to speak German, by the way, you'll find it marvelously easy to hear the texts. There's a good deal to be said in favor of using singers of the composer's language in choruses. The consonants ring true, and the precision of vowels does wonders for tuning. Cantus Colln is flawless in its articulation, a model for all choristers to emulate.