These are the days of miracles and wonders; not only are there already two complete recordings of all Bach's cantatas -- the greatest body of sacred music since the Renaissance -- but the...
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Aside from the gargantuan logistical problems of moving a chamber orchestra, chorus, soloists, and conductor, plus recording equipment with engineers and producers every week, the aesthet...
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The Bach cantata pilgrimage of conductor John Eliot Gardiner, with his Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists, began on Christmas of 1999 and continued through the year 2000. At fi...
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Lean and austere, yet deeply felt and profoundly spiritual, the first volume in Chandos' series of recordings of Bach's early Cantatas is a complete success. With one player and one singe...
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Jesu, deine Passion delivers a splendid set of Bach cantatas for the first Sunday of Lent. As always with Bach's cantatas, the music is tailored to the mood of the liturgical occasion, in...
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Sigiswald Kuijken and La Petite Bande continue their survey of Bach's church cantatas with this disc of four cantatas written for the advent season: Schwingt freudig euch empor, BWV 36; B...
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Originally recorded for the Astre label in the early '90s, this recording is something of a classic of the historical-performance movement, and its reissue is cause for celebration. It co...
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This is the 28th and final album in British conductor John Eliot Gardiner's cycle of Bach's cantatas with his Monteverdi Choir, and it comes with a two-page list of financial backers akin...
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Classical music listeners who feel they're living in a dry spell would do well to consider that our time has its advantages like any other. The range of ambitious, entirely distinctive re...
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Compared with the other ongoing series of Bach's cantatas, those of conductor Masaaki Suzuki and his historical-instrument Bach Collegium Japan are quite restrained in their basic outlook...
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This 1981 recording, originally recorded by the West German Radio in Cologne, still offers one of the few samples of music by one of the least-known members of the Bach clan: J.S. Bach's ...
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