J. S. Bach
Cantatas
BWV 70 [22:59]
BWV 132 [17:40]
BWV 147 [28:07]
Soprano: Brigitte Geller
Counter-tenor: Michael Chance
Tenor: Jan Kobow
Bass: Dietrich Henschel
Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner
Live recordings from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage:
Michaeliskirche, Lüneburg, Germany.
Volume 13 CD 2
Stabat Mater
for soprano, contralto, strings and basso continuo
by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736)
Margaret Marshall (soprano)
Lucia Valentini Terrani (contralto)
Leslie Pearson (organ)
London Symohony Orchestra
Claudio Abbado (conductor)
Recorded in 1985
00:00 «Stabat Mater Dolorosa»
04:39 «Cujus animam gementem»
07:47 «O quam tristis et afflicta»
10:22 «Quae moerebat et dolebat»
13:12 «Quis est homo»—«Pro peccatis suae gentis...»
16:14 «Vidit suum dulcem natum»
19:48 «Eja mater fons amoris»
22:42 «Fac ut ardeat cor meum»
25:23 «Sancta mater, istud agas»
31:22 «Fac ut portem Christi mortem»
35:06 «Inflammatus et accensus»
37:57 «Quando corpus morietur» —«Amen...»
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01. Utrecht Te Deum in D major HWV 278 00:00
02. Utrecht Jubilate in D major HWV 279 24:44
03. Queen Caroline Te Deum in D major HWV 280 42:24
04. Chandos Te Deum in B flat major HWV 281 57:50
05. Te Deum in A major HWV 282 01:32:18
06. Dettingen Te Deum in D major HWV 283 01:48:22
Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, The Academy of Ancient Music, Simon Preston
Netherlands Bach Society
Jos Van Veldhoven
Les Arts Florissants, William Christie
Gerhard Jenemann
Drottningholms Baroque Ensemble*
Vocalsolisten Frankfurt
Concerto Polacco
Alsfelder Vocal Ensemble
Helbich, Wolfgang
Choir of Westminster Abbey
The English Concert
Trevor Pinnock
Simon Preston
Andreas is a Countertenor. Born into a family of singers, Scholl was enrolled at the age of seven into the boys choir. Aged 13, he was chosen from 20,000 choristers gathered in Rome from around the world to sing solo at a Mass held on 4 January 1981. Just four years later, Scholl was offered a place at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, an institution that normally accepts only post-graduate students, based on the strength and quality of his voice. He has since become an instructor at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, succeeding his own teacher, Richard Levitt.
Scholls early operatic roles include his standing in for René Jacobs in 1993 at the Théâtre Grévin in Paris, where he caused a sensation. His major roles, such as his debut at Glyndebourne in 1998 as Bertarido in Handels Rodelinda, a role he reprised at the Metropolitan Opera in 2006, were written for the 18th-century alto castrato Senesino.
The bulk of Scholls recording career has been with Harmonia Mundi and Decca, and his CDs are among Harmonia Mundis best sellers. He has worked with most contemporary Baroque specialists, including William Christie and Philippe Herreweghe, and is himself a songwriter and composer of ballet and theatre music, with his own professional sound studio in Basel, Switzerland.
About this Album:
Born in 1681, Georg Philip Telemann would inevitably suffer from comparisons with one of the towering figures of western Classical music, born just four years later: Johann Sebastian Bach. Although after his death Telemann may have been constantly cast into the Leipzig composer’s shadow, during his lifetime he was exalted as Bach’s equal and was considered one of the greatest German composers of the early 18th century. Certainly, the size of his output compares very favourably with Bach’s; Telemann was also a highly productive composer, writing over 3,000 works during his lifetime (although not all have survived). Despite his popularity falling away in the 19th century, today Telemann is almost as highly regarded as he was in his own lifetime – the large number of new recordings on this edition pays tribute to the flurry of interest that has grown around the composer Telemann over the past 30 years. After starting his career in Leipzig, Telemann became Kapellmeister in Sorau (now Żary in Poland), where by his own estimation he wrote over 200 overtures, imbued with the Polish and French influences of the court that surrounded him. The cornerstone of his output, many of these diverse overtures make up a large part of this disc. Telemann then moved first to Eisenach, in central Germany, followed by Frankfurt, his fame steadily increasing along with his output. Among his new compositions were church cantatas, psalms and other sacred works, as well as instrumental music; he became known for his concertos in the French style, which he valued above the Italian style that was more popular at the time. It was in Frankfurt that he began to write concertos for various different instruments, many of which are to be found in this edition.
J. S. Bach
Motet BWV 225 [12:59]
Cantatas:
BWV 152 [18:01]
BWV 122 [14:56]
BWV 28 [14:05]
BWV 190 [16:53]
Sopranos: Gillian Keith [BWV 152], Katharine Fuge [BWV 122], Joanne Lunn [BWV 28] Counter-tenor: Daniel Taylor
Tenor: James Gilchrist
Bass: Peter Harvey
Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner
Live recording from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage, at St Bartholomew’s Church, New York, NY, USA. www.bach-cantatas.com/Performers/Gardiner-Rec3.htm
Johann Sebastian BACH (1685-1750)
Erbarme dich, mein Gott
Aria (No. 39) from the oratorio Matthäuspassion, BWV 244
Text: Picander (1700-1764)
First performance: probably 11 April 1727, in Leipzig (Thomaskirche)
Delphine Galou, contralto
François-Marie Drieux, solo violin
Les Siècles,
conducted by François-Xavier Roth
Recorded in Summer 2008?
German text:
Erbarme dich, mein Gott, um meiner Zähren willen!
Schaue hier, Herz und Auge weint vor dir bitterlich.
English translation:
Have mercy, my God, for the sake of my tears!
See here, before you heart and eyes weep bitterly.
The opening chorus Herr, unser Herrscher from St John Passion, performed by the Nederlands Bach Society for All of Bach. The St John Passion was the first Passion Bach had written as cantor in Leipzig. The Passion story as told in the Gospel of John is different from that told by the other three evangelists – Matthew, Luke and Mark. John’s version places the emphasis on Christ’s divine origin. Throughout his suffering, this divine origin still plays a role and nowhere is Jesus as human as in the other gospels.
For this performance, we selected a cast of singers under the age of 35. Apart from the leaders, all the orchestra members are also younger than 35. The concert series was preceded by a course of auditions and masterclasses.
Recorded for the project All of Bach on March 11th 2017 at the Grote Kerk, Naarden. If you want to help us complete All of Bach, please subscribe to our channel bit.ly/2vhCeFB and consider donating bit.ly/2uZuMj5.
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Netherlands Bach Society
Jos van Veldhoven, conductor
Soloists
Raphael Höhn, evangelist (tenor)
Myriam Arbouz, soprano
Maria Valdmaa (Maid), soprano
Daniël Elgersma, alto
Marine Fribourg, alto
Gwilym Bowen, tenor
Guy Cutting (Servant), tenor
Felix Schwandtke (Jesus), bass
Drew Santini (Peter), bass
Angus Mc Phee (Pilate), bass