J S Bach - Early Cantatas Vol.3: Weimar Cantatas II
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Label: Chandos - Chaconne
Cat No: CHAN07522
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 1st September 2008
Contents
Works
Cantata BWV21 'Ich hatte viel Bekummernis'Cantata BWV172 'Erschallet, ihr Lieder'
Cantata BWV182 'Himmelskonig, sei willkommen'
Artists
Emma Kirkby (soprano)Michael Chance (countertenor)
Charles Daniels (tenor)
Peter Harvey (bass)
The Purcell Quartet
Works
Cantata BWV21 'Ich hatte viel Bekummernis'Cantata BWV172 'Erschallet, ihr Lieder'
Cantata BWV182 'Himmelskonig, sei willkommen'
Artists
Emma Kirkby (soprano)Michael Chance (countertenor)
Charles Daniels (tenor)
Peter Harvey (bass)
The Purcell Quartet
About
Accompanied by The Purcell Quartet and their guest instrumentalists are the vocal soloists Emma Kirkby, Michael Chance, Charles Daniels and Peter Harvey. Individual vocal and instrumental lines are allowed to be heard to their full effect, which greatly enhances the impact and meaning of the cantata texts.
This programme contains three cantatas dating from 1714, the year in which Bach was promoted to the post of Konzertmeister at the ducal court in Weimar. His responsibilities now included the composition of concerted sacred vocal music, including the writing of cantatas at regular intervals for Sundays and feast days of the liturgical year. Bach performed all three works collected on this pair of discs several times. They are presented here as they would have been heard in Weimar at their 1714 performances.
The first two works, Erschallet, ihr Lieder, BWV 172 and Himmelskönig, sei willkommen, BWV 182, have much in common in tone and atmosphere: both are essentially jubilant at the prospect of the heavenly eternity awaiting the good Christian at the end of his life, and the images of the Trinity led Bach to employ three trumpets in BWV 172. In BWV 182 there is, instead of trumpets and drums, an intimate conversation principally between violin and recorder. The jubilant mood of these two cantatas is juxtaposed with that of Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis, BWV 21, which exudes a feeling of despair, only for Bach to bring in trumpets and drums at the end as hope gradually begins to dawn.
The Weimar cantatas of J.S. Bach form an exceptional body of work and it is thrilling to hear them performed in a way that Bach would have recognised, and by artists respected in the early music field.
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