Label: Challenge Classics
Format: CD
Barcode: 0608917289725
Catalog number: CC 72897
Releasedate: 08-10-21
Format: CD
Barcode: 0608917289725
Catalog number: CC 72897
Releasedate: 08-10-21
- Here is the first volume in a series of discs devoted to Bach's famous Cantatas.
- They are drawn from the entire corpus of Cantatas recorded by Ton Koopman and his trusted close friends and collaborators.
- The project is chronologically structured. So this first volume includes Cantatas composed at Mülhausen in the years 1707 and 1708.
- This disc contains four great and well-known masterpieces which convey the mastery and maturity of the young Bach, aged 22 at that time.
- They are drawn from the entire corpus of Cantatas recorded by Ton Koopman and his trusted close friends and collaborators.
- The project is chronologically structured. So this first volume includes Cantatas composed at Mülhausen in the years 1707 and 1708.
- This disc contains four great and well-known masterpieces which convey the mastery and maturity of the young Bach, aged 22 at that time.
Bach's sacred music written before he went to Leipzig, including all the works from the Weimar period, are often lumped together as "early" cantatas. This is misleading and ultimately inaccurate, since Bach was already 38 years old when he moved from his post as Kapellmeister at Köthen in 1723 to take up his duties as Kantor at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig. In fact most of Bach's church cantatas date from the Leipzig years, as does the consolidation of the stylistic, structural and technical features of his vocal works, but even the repertoire composed before 1714 can hardly be termed "early". The works composed at Mühlhausen, demonstrating a striking sureness of touch in their conception, placed the 22-year-old among the finest contemporary cantata composers. Bach's earliest church cantatas are still clearly marked by 17th-century traditions. As well as the influences of older members of the Bach family, those of Buxtehude and Pachelbel the Elder, and Italian and French masters are evident, technically, structurally and stylistically. A particularly characteristic feature of the pre-Leipzig cantatas is Bach's exceptional delight in experimental and complex handling of an extremely wide range of instruments, with refined sound effects (such as the use of the bassoon) and poly- and homophonic settings and forms.
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1Christ lag in Todesbanden BWV 4Sinfonia01:10
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2Christ lag in Todesbanden BWV 4Versus I - Chorus: Christ lag in Todesbanden03:42
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3Christ lag in Todesbanden BWV 4Versus II - Duet: Den Tod niemand zwingen kunnt03:45
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4Christ lag in Todesbanden BWV 4Versus III - Jesus Christus, Gottes Sohn (tenor)02:03
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5Christ lag in Todesbanden BWV 4Versus IV - Chorus: Es war ein wunderlicher Krieg02:08
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6Christ lag in Todesbanden BWV 4Versus V - Hier ist das rechte Osterlamm (bass)02:55
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7Christ lag in Todesbanden BWV 4Versus VI - Duet: So feiern wir das hohe Fest01:57
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8Christ lag in Todesbanden BWV 4Versus VII Choral: Wir essen und leben wohl (chorus)01:20
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9Gott ist mein König BWV 71Gott ist mein konig (Chorus)01:48
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10Gott ist mein König BWV 71Chorale Aria: Ich bin nun achzig Jahr (Tenor, Soprano)03:29
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11Gott ist mein König BWV 71Dein Alter sei wie deine Jugend (Chorus)01:31
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12Gott ist mein König BWV 71Arioso: Tag und Nacht ist dein (Bass)02:52
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13Gott ist mein König BWV 71Aria: Durch machtige Kraft (Alto)01:11
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14Gott ist mein König BWV 71Du wollest dem Feinde nicht geben (Chorus)03:51
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15Gott ist mein König BWV 71Das neue Regiment (Chorus)03:43
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16Aus der Tiefe rufe ich, Herr, zu dir BWV 131Sinfonia: Aus der Tiefe rufe ich04:18
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17Aus der Tiefe rufe ich, Herr, zu dir BWV 131Aria: So du willst (Bass, Soprano)04:20
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18Aus der Tiefe rufe ich, Herr, zu dir BWV 131Ich harre des Herrn (Chorus)03:35
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19Aus der Tiefe rufe ich, Herr, zu dir BWV 131Aria: Meine Seele wartet auf den Derrn (Tenor, Alto)06:05
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20Aus der Tiefe rufe ich, Herr, zu dir BWV 131Israel, hoffe auf den Herrn (Chorus)04:07
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21Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit (Actus tragicus) BWV 106Sonatina02:36
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22Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit (Actus tragicus) BWV 106a. Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit (Chorus) b. Arioso: Ach, Herr, lehre uns bedenken (Tenor) c. Arioso: Bestelle dein Haus (Bass)08:24
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23Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit (Actus tragicus) BWV 106a. Aria: In deine Hande befehle ich meinen Geist (Alto) b. Chorale: Heute wirst du mit mir (Alto, Bass)05:56
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24Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit (Actus tragicus) BWV 106Glorie, Lob, Ehr und Herrlichkeit (Chorus)03:04