JS Bach - Advent Cantatas | Harmonia Mundi HMM931605

JS Bach - Advent Cantatas

Label: Harmonia Mundi

Cat No: HMM931605

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Christmas

Release Date: 13th December 2019

Contents

Artists

Sibylla Rubens
Sarah Connolly
Christoph Pregardien
Peter Kooy
Collegium Vocale Gent

Conductor

Philippe Herreweghe

Works

Bach, Johann Sebastian

Cantata BWV36 'Schwingt freudig euch empor'
Cantata BWV61 'Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland'
Cantata BWV62 'Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland'

Artists

Sibylla Rubens
Sarah Connolly
Christoph Pregardien
Peter Kooy
Collegium Vocale Gent

Conductor

Philippe Herreweghe

About

Surely one of the greatest gifts the Lutheran Church ever gave to music was to have charged Bach with the duty of producing a cantata for every week of the year. He left us no fewer than three for the first Sunday in Advent alone, composed between 1714 (at Weimar) and 1724-31 (at Leipzig). They are inspired in very different ways by Luther’s original chorale: it is as if all of baroque Germany is contained between the sobriety of BWV 61 and the ambitious frescoes of BWV 36 and 62.

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