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SDG’s spring 2008 release combines Cantatas for the Fifth Sunday after Easter with those written for the Sunday after Ascension Day. The opening cantata BWV 86 is a great example of Bach’s skill to reinforce religious texts and their meanings. The final piece in the programme is BWV 97, a cantata without liturgical designation first performed in 1734. It uses the haunting Heinrich Isaac hymn tune ‘Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen’ in both its opening and concluding movements. To balance the performance of BWV 150, the disc ends with Johann Christoph Bach’s five-voiced motet Fürchte dich nicht. This is an uplifting programme recorded in a perfect acoustic setting.
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| SOLI DEO GLORIA - SDG 144 |
| Johann Sebastian Bach |
| Cantatas , Vol. 25 |
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Performers |
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The Monteverdi Choir
The English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner, conductor |
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Content |
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Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750):
CD 1
For the Fifth Sunday after Easter (Rogate)
CD 2
For the Fifth Sunday after Ascension Day (Exaudi)
2 CD - DDD - 55'10''+52'40'' |
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Production information |
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Recorded live in Dresden, May 27 & 28, 2000 and Sherborne Abbey, June 14, 2000 |
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