Early Cantatas :-Volume 1
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J.S. BACH
Early Cantatas :-Volume 1
Emma Kirkby (soprano) Michael Chance (counter-tenor) Charles Daniels (tenor) Peter Harvey (baritone) / The Purcell Quartet
[ Chandos / CD ]
Release Date: Tuesday 1 February 2005
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'For sheer brilliance of technique, the Purcell Quartet and friends take the biscuit.'
International Record Review
'…a performance of great musical versatility.'
Gramophone
J.S. Bach was probably the greatest of all European religious composers, able to find the heart of human experience in the story of Christ's passion, and this profound and emotionally charged music is here performed by some of today's finest early music interpreters - Emma Kirkby, Michael Chance, Charles Daniels, Peter Harvey and The Purcell Quartet. The first of two volumes of Bach cantatas, this disc follows up the success of the disc of Buxtehude motets from almost the same line up, which Chandos released in 2002.
The cantatas on this disc were all composed during the two years when Bach was organist and choirmaster at St Blasius' Church in Mühlhausen, before he took up his first major appointment at Weimar. This was in 1707-08 and Bach was in his early twenties.
The Purcell Quartet has released over thirty discs on Chandos, and has received the highest commendations in the press.
Tracks:
Christ lag in Todes Banden, BWV 4
Gottes Zeit is die allerbeste Zeit, BWV 106 Actus tragicus
Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir, BWV 131
Der Herr denket an uns, BWV 196
