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Marking the 250th anniversary of the composers death, John Eliot Gardiners 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 Gods 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 Bachs 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 BWV200. --GaryS. Dalkin
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Binding :Audio CD
Label :Archiv Prod Import
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ProductGroup :Music
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Publisher :Archiv Prod Import
UPC :028946358528
EAN :0028946358528
Price :$17.98USD
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Customer ReviewsGardiner did such a great job
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It might be one of the best Bach Cantata recordings Ive ever experienced. BWV 82 is well known for classical music listeners. However, I like BWV 83 in this CD cuz it was very well completed through the high level of purity and integrity. Such a smooth and passionate flow makes us touching and leads to the very past which we can feel Bachs era. You wont be disappointed.
Moving music with a message.
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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 Havent Got", (Sinead OConnor 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.
Gardiner Reveals!
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Gardiners choral conducting needs no introduction: he is simply the very best. Here, as in most of his other recent recordings of Bachs cantatas, he elicits beautiful singing and playing from his forces, breathing new life into these masterpieces. BVW 125 contains an amazing revelation (about which Ive heard nothing before -- but perhaps Ive 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
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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.
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Amazon.comJohn Eliot Gardiners original Millennium Bach Cantata Pilgrimage plan involved weekly Deutsche Grammophon recordings of all the concerts, but the plan did not prove practical. This CD of Bachs Ascension Day cantatas dates from 1993 and 1999Amazon.comJohn Eliot Gardiners year-2000 project is big, even for him a "pilgrimage" to perform all of Bachs surviving church cantatas (more than 200) between Christmas 1999 and Christmas 2000 in various churches throughout Europe, with a finale p
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