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Bach - Cantatas BWV 140, 147 / Holton, Chance, Rolfe Johnson, Varcoe, The Monteverdi Choir, The English Baroque Soloists, Gardiner

Johann Sebastian Bach (Composer), John Eliot Gardiner (Conductor), The English Baroque Soloists (Orchestra), Format: Audio CD
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J.S. Bach: "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme" Cantata, BWV 140 - Chor: "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme"
by Anthony Robson and English Baroque Soloists and John Eliot Gardiner and Richard Earle and The Monteverdi Choir
6:19
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J.S. Bach: "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme" Cantata, BWV 140 - Rezitativ: "Er kommt, er kommt, der Bräutigam kommt!"
by Anthony Rolfe Johnson and English Baroque Soloists and John Eliot Gardiner
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J.S. Bach: "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme" Cantata, BWV 140 - Arie (Duett): "Wann kommst du, mein Heil?"
by Alison Bury and English Baroque Soloists and John Eliot Gardiner and Ruth Holton and Stephen Varcoe
5:31
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J.S. Bach: "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme" Cantata, BWV 140 - Choral: "Zion hört die Wächter singen"
by English Baroque Soloists and John Eliot Gardiner and The Monteverdi Choir
3:49
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J.S. Bach: "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme" Cantata, BWV 140 - Rezitativ: "So geh' herein zu mir"
by English Baroque Soloists and John Eliot Gardiner and Stephen Varcoe
1:25
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J.S. Bach: "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme" Cantata, BWV 140 - Arie: "Mein Freund ist mein!"
by Anthony Robson and English Baroque Soloists and John Eliot Gardiner and Ruth Holton and Stephen Varcoe
5:05
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J.S. Bach: "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme" Cantata, BWV 140 - Choral: "Gloria sei dir gesungen"
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J.S. Bach: Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, Cantata BWV 147 - 1. Coro: "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben"
by Crispian Steele-Perkins and English Baroque Soloists and John Eliot Gardiner and The Monteverdi Choir
4:08
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J.S. Bach: Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, Cantata BWV 147 - 2. Recitativo: "Gebenedeiter Mund!"
by Anthony Rolfe Johnson and English Baroque Soloists and John Eliot Gardiner
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J.S. Bach: Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, Cantata BWV 147 - 3. Aria: "Schäme dich, o Seele nicht"
by Anthony Robson and English Baroque Soloists and John Eliot Gardiner and Michael Chance
3:14
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J.S. Bach: Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, Cantata BWV 147 - 4. Recitativo: "Verstockung kann Gewaltige verblenden"
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J.S. Bach: Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, Cantata BWV 147 - 5. Aria: "Bereite dir, Jesu"
by Alison Bury and English Baroque Soloists and John Eliot Gardiner and Ruth Holton
4:29
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J.S. Bach: Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, Cantata BWV 147 - 6. Choral: "Wohl mir, dass ich Jesum habe"
by Crispian Steele-Perkins and English Baroque Soloists and John Eliot Gardiner and The Monteverdi Choir
2:28
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J.S. Bach: Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, Cantata BWV 147 - 7. Aria: "Hilf, Jesu, hilf"
by Anthony Rolfe Johnson and English Baroque Soloists and John Eliot Gardiner
3:16
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J.S. Bach: Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, Cantata BWV 147 - 8. Recitativo: "Der höchsten Allmacht Wunderhand"
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2:16
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J.S. Bach: Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, Cantata BWV 147 - 9. Aria: "Ich will von Jesu Wundern singen"
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2:33
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J.S. Bach: Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, Cantata BWV 147 - 10. Choral: "Jesus bleibet meine Freude"
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Product Details

  • Performer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Ruth Holton, Stephen Varcoe, The Monteverdi Choir
  • Orchestra: The English Baroque Soloists
  • Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
  • Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Audio CD (October 10, 2000)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Archiv
  • ASIN: B00004XPU6
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsExcellent
By Bogdan Minut on March 26, 2002
Format: Audio CD
Issued in the year 2000, this compact disc was a small contribution to the promotion of the Monteverdi Choir cantata tour. Together with the English Baroque Soloists, they performed all the surviving church cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach during the course of 2000, on the liturgical days for which they were composed, in different churches around Europe and US. Gardiner talks a little about this endeavor in the line notes: "Bach is probably the only composer whose musical output is so rich, so challenging to the performer and so spiritually uplifting to performer and listener alike, that one would gladly spend a year in his exclusive company."
In 1731, based on a hymn by Philipp Nicolai, Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, Bach wrote a chorale cantata with the same title. The text is based on the parable of the ten virgins in the prescribed Gospel reading, Matthew 25: 1-13. Of the seven sections, the first and the last as well as the middle fourth are chorales. Interestingly enough, the middle one, Zion hört die Wächter singen, is for tenors and orchestra. Furthermore, the intermediate pairs of sections are similar in the way that each of the groups begins with a recitative and ends with an Aria/Duet for soprano and bass soli. The duets represent the conversation between Jesus (bass) and the Soul (soprano), while the middle chorale is the song of the watchmen from the Song of Songs.
Initially composed in 1716 for a service in the Weimar chapel on the fourth Sunday in Advent, Cantata BWV 147 was revised by the composer in 1723 for the Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsOne small correction
By Harry W. Crosby on March 12, 2006
Format: Audio CD
The Amazon listing for this disk shows a release date in 2000. Actually, this disk was originally released in 1992 and re-released in 2000. At least one of the guest reviewers also says it was recorded in 2000. I have the disk and consider it to be excellent, my only reservation being the recording itself which is not quite up to the technical quality of the Gardiner/Bach recordings actually made in 2000.
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5.0 out of 5 starsa voice teacher and early music fan
By George Peabody VINE VOICE on November 14, 2006
Format: Audio CD
BACH LIGHTS UP MY LIFE!
And I suspect the lives of many others who continue to be astounded at the creativity that produced a multitude of works. And on this recording we are gifted with STUNNING RENDITIONS OF TWO OF BACH'S MOST ATTRACTIVE CANTATAS! Fortunately for us they are performed by the very excellent Monteverdi Choir under the direction of John Eliot Gardiner, who is probably the leading authority on the music of Bach. The soloists are the best and sing with great skill and emotion. Though Bach had more downs than ups in his life, he must somehow have subscribed to the philosophy of the yet unwritten song 'I Never Promised You a Rose Garden'.

The first cantata 'Wachet auf,ruft uns die Stimme'opens up with a rousing chorale familiar to most of us. The tenor voice of Anthony Rolfe Johnson announces 'He comes, He comes, the Bridegroom comes!' A conversation takes place between the Soul (soprano-Ruth Holton) and Jesus (bass-Stephen Varcoe): "When comest Thou, my Saviour?".'I come now'. Holton sounds so much like a boy soprano that I had to keep checking the line-up; but this partially explains why the Monteverdi Choir does not need boy sopranos to get the correct baroque sound; their sopranos have light, breathy sounds(when needed) that lend themselves to the kind of music they frequently sing. This cantata was written for the 27th Sunday after Trinity which took place on Nov. 25th,1731.

The cantata "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben" was written for the fourth Sunday in Advent, Dec. 20,1716, and is based on the Gospel reading: Luke 1:39-56. This text takes Mary's words (Magnificat) as the paradigm for personal Christian proclamation, thus encouraging the congregation to bear witness to Christ freely.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsAlive
By toronto on April 25, 2011
Format: Audio CD
Contrary to some of the other reviews, I found this recording alive and well. It sent me looking for others -- the recording and balance of forces were so compelling. Since nobody really knows about tempi for these, it is a matter of taste, and if you tend not towards the "glorious glacial slab" version of Bach, you'll enjoy this. Joy should be joyful, I think, a quickening of the spirit. "Wachet auf" was particularly fine -- I seem to be playing it over and over. As someone noted, Ruth Holton has the most boylike soprano voice, it is quite startling. I have other versions of these cantatas, but this is the one I listen to.
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5.0 out of 5 starsSublime music, fine performances
By William J. Mertens on September 28, 2008
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Bach's cantatas were some of the finest music to come out of the high Baroque, and these two are justifiably among the most famous. Especially in view of their quality, the cantatas are underperformed. Gardiner did all of us a favor by championing them.

To judge this disc by the music on it and not its labeling (which did not confuse me), it deserves a high rating. This music does deserve a period instrument, historically informed performance. The instruments produce clear lines rather than romantic lushness. And Gardiner's interpretation is vigorous rather than reverential. This is most obvious in the famous (and much transcribed) movement no. 4, the "Zion hört die Wächter singen" choral, from the "Wachet auf" cantata. There are painfully slow, reverential performances of this music that seem to be plowing through molasses. That's how Karl Richter recorded it. Gardiner, in comparison, takes it at a gallop, and the music comes alive. It's wonderful.
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4.0 out of 5 starsBetter than a lot of other versions of this concert ...

Better than a lot of other versions of this concert piece. The first movement is not treated as a dirge, rather in the spirit of "Wachet Auf," almost an allegro con molto. Read more

Published 3 months ago by C. Adelman
5.0 out of 5 starsBeautiful album

This entire series is brilliant. Live recording done beautifully! The soprano soloist in BWV 147 is a treasure.

Published 10 months ago by Nick Rogers
4.0 out of 5 starsElevator Music

Wife loves Bach, I love Rock & Roll. Go figure, if you can. Stuff puts me to sleep. If you love Bach this is for you and Wife!

Published 23 months ago by bluegrass2012
5.0 out of 5 starsSublime!

The music is glorious! You won't be disappointed. John Elliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir - The English Baroque Soloists reach for and obtain musical perfection. Read more

Published on August 1, 2013 by Sonia E. Kircher
4.0 out of 5 starsPleasure to the ear

Same as for my previous review. Good soloists, excellent orchestral work, sensitively conducted and sound most acceptable. Bach lovers should be well satisfied.

Published on June 15, 2013 by Vivien Ward
2.0 out of 5 starsREAD THE SMALL PRINT

In the year 2000 John Eliot Gardiner, together with his colleagues here the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists, to say nothing of some distinguished solo performers... Read more

Published on June 2, 2008 by DAVID BRYSON
4.0 out of 5 starsRolling Thunder Cantata Review...

Imagine being clueless about the "Bach Cantata Pilgrimage" of 2000: John Eliot Gardiner, the English Baroque Soloists, and the Monteverdi choir toured various churches in... Read more

Published on March 12, 2004 by ewomack
2.0 out of 5 starsGreat Music & Performances, Disappointing CD

I must agree with the previous reviewer, who found this CD 'lacking in grandeur'. The vocal performances and music are meticulously crafted and delivered, and may indeed be true to... Read more

Published on March 7, 2003 by strega2
2.0 out of 5 starsWhere is the grandeur?

One of the above reviewers mentions the "bouncy" and "jaunty" tone of Gardiner's rendition. This CD is so bouncy it sounds like a Baroque precursor of disco! Read more

Published on October 31, 2002 by Edward

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