[ Soli Deo Gloria / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Thursday 16 February 2006
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John Eliot Gardiner's award-winning series of live recordings from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage continues with cantatas for the 2nd and 4th Sundays after Trinity.
Live recording from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage.
Royal Naval College Chapel, Greenwich
Romsey, Abbey
The first of two further releases in John Eliot Gardiner's Gramophone Award winning series of Bach Cantatas on his own label. The texts of the Cantatas for the Second Sunday after Epiphany describe a path from mourning to consolation, perfectly illuminated by Bach's music - from the intense anxiety in the heart-stopping soprano arioso in the first movement of BWV 155 to the irresistible, dancing exuberance of the final aria. The two Cantatas for the Fourth Sunday after Epiphany include BWV 81, perhaps the most vividly operatic of all Bach's works, and this second disc is completed by two extras: BWV 26 for the Twenty-fourth Sunday after Trinity and the Motet BWV 227.
CD-1:
Cantatas for the Second Sunday after Epiphany
BWV 155 - Mein Gott, wie lang, ach lange?
BWV 3 - Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid I
BWV 13 - Meine Seufzer, meine Tränen
CD-2:
Cantatas for the Fourth Sunday after Epiphany
BWV 81 - Jesus schläft, was soll ich hoffen?
BWV 14 - Wär Gott nicht mit uns diese Zeit
BWV 26 - Ach wie flüchtig, ach wie nichtig (for the Twenty-fourth Sunday after Trinity)
Motet BWV 227 - Jesu, meine Freude