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Johann Sebastian Bach, John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists
Bach: Cantatas, BWV 82. 83, 125, 200
Genre: Classical

Track Listings (17) - Disc #1
1. Erfreute Zeit im neuen Bunde BWV 83: Aria: Efreute Zeit In Neuem Bunde
2. Erfreute Zeit im neuen Bunde BWV 83: Intonation & Recitative: Herr, nun Lassest Du Deinen Diener
3. Erfreute Zeit im neuen Bunde BWV 83: Aria: Eile, Herz, Voll Freudigkeit
4. Erfreute Zeit im neuen Bunde BWV 83: Recitative: La, Merkt Dein Glaube Noch Viel Finsternis
5. Erfreute Zeit im neuen Bunde BWV 83: Chorale: Er Ist Das Heil Und Selig Licht
6. Ich habe Genug BWV 82: Aria: Ich Habe Genug
7. Ich habe Genug BWV 82: Recitative: Ich Habe Genug
8. Ich habe Genug BWV 82: Aria: Schlummert Ein, Ihr Matten Augen
9. Ich habe Genug BWV 82: Recitative: Mein Gott! Wann Kommt Das Schone Nun!
10. Ich habe Genug BWV 82: Aria: Ich Freue Mich Auf Meinen Tod
11. Mit Fried Und Freud Ich Fahr Dahin BWV 125: Chorus: Mit Fried Und Freud Ich Fahr Dahin
12. Mit Fried Und Freud Ich Fahr Dahin BWV 125: Aria: Ich Will Auch Mit Gebrochen Augen
13. Mit Fried Und Freud Ich Fahr Dahin BWV 125: Recitative & Chorale: O Wunder, Dass Ein Herz - Das Macht Christus, Wahr Gottes Sohn
14. Mit Fried Und Freud Ich Fahr Dahin BWV 125: Aria - Duet
15. Mit Fried Und Freud Ich Fahr Dahin BWV 125: Recitative: O Unerschopfter Schatz Der Guite
16. Mit Fried Und Freud Ich Fahr Dahin BWV 125: Chorale: Er Ist Das Heil Und Sel'ge Licht
17. Bekennen will ich seinen Namen BWV 200: Aria: Bekennen Will Ich Seinen Namen

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All Artists: Johann Sebastian Bach, John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists
Title: Bach: Cantatas, BWV 82. 83, 125, 200
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Archiv Prod Import
Release Date: 7/3/2000
Album Type: Import
Genre: Classical
Styles: Opera & Classical Vocal, Historical Periods, Baroque (c.1600-1750)
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 028946358528

Synopsis

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Marking the 250th anniversary of the composer's death, John Eliot Gardiner's year-long Bach Pilgrimage continues with this program of cantatas for the Feast of the Purification of Mary. The music was written for performance on February 2 in the years 1724, 1725, and 1727, and the album preserves performances given on that same date in the year 2000 in Christchurch Priory, Dorset, England. The live sound has virtually no audience noise and is beautifully balanced, though a touch of harshness is present in the recording of countertenor Robin Tyson. The joy of God's new order in Christ is well expressed in Erfreute Zeit im neuen Bunde, a strong contrast to one of the most darkly beautiful of all Bach's sacred cantatas, Ich habe genug. Here the longing is for the death that will unite the singer with Christ, with bass Peter Harvey powerfully communicating all the required sorrow and passion. Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin combines choir with soloists, and intertwines joy, lament, and resignation in music performed with dignified grandeur. The disc ends with the only surviving movement of cantata BWV 200. --Gary S. Dalkin

CD Reviews

Gardiner Reveals!

Andrew M. Klein | Washington, DC USA | 02/09/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Gardiner's choral conducting needs no introduction: he is simply the very best. Here, as in most of his other recent recordings of Bach's cantatas, he elicits beautiful singing and playing from his forces, breathing new life into these masterpieces. BVW 125 contains an amazing revelation (about which I've heard nothing before -- but perhaps I've been inattentive): Gustav Mahhler built the Der Abshied segment of Das Lied von der Erde on the "Ich will auch mit gebrochnen Augen" aria in this work! I knew that, before composing Das Lied, Mahler was restudying Bach, but I had no idea how closley he modelled the most moving part of Das Lied (the Der Abshied melody motiff, harmony, voicing and tempo)on what Bach wrote long before him in this aria. Amazing stuff!"

Great recording

Teemacs | Switzerland | 01/12/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is another of the DG cantata CDs, released before the big falling-out between Gardiner and DG, that was actually recorded on the Pilgrimage (Christchurch Priory Church, Dorset, very much home territory for JEG).

The big hit here is the beautiful cantata for solo bass BWV82 "Ich habe genug", with its gorgeous aria "Schlummert ein, ihr matten Augen". The performances are crisp, clear and well-executed. At the Amazon price, this is a bargain."

Moving music with a message.

Andrea F. Biondo | Earth | 10/09/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is moving stuff, though I suggest listening to this recording in a slightly different order, Ich habe genug (tracks 6-10 first), then Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin, (tracks 11-17), then Erfreute Zeit im neuen Bunde (Tracks 1-5) last. Ich habe genug is just sublime. It carries a message to us all, 'I have enough' (approximate translation). Bach was speaking for his time, with a religious perspective (making sure his bills got paid too), but today- I think a secular contemporary meaning can be derived. That is, to quote a more recent expression of wanting deliverance from 'the suffering of desire' (to take a slightly Buddist perspective), "I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got", (Sinead O'Connor 1990). After listening to Ich habe genug, it is difficult to not feel like there is nothing else I need in life but the beauty of such music."