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Composer:
Johann Sebastian Bach

Artist(s):
Nathalie Stutzmann
Daniel Taylor

Conductor:
John Eliot Gardiner

Background: This release combines cantatas for Whit Tuesday and Trinity Sunday. Brandenburg Concerto No.3 precedes the two surviving Cantatas for Whit Tuesday. Pressed for time at the end of a busy Whit weekend during his first year in Leipzig, Bach based BWV184 Erwunschtes Freudenlicht (1724) on a hasty revision of a lost Cothen secular cantata. One might momentarily mistake the second movement of this cantata as the origin of the celebrated duet from Lakmé, before considering the long odds of Delibes ever having clapped eyes on this obscure piece. The pastoral mood continues a year later in BWV175 Er rufet seinen Schafen mit Namen (1725). This is a more elaborate work, the eighth of the nine consecutive texts Bach set by Christiane Mariane von Ziegler.

Recorded in St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall after one of the more dramatic journeys on the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage, the first cantata for Trinity Sunday, BWV165 O heilges Geist- und Wasserbad, was composed in 1715 in Weimar. It is a true sermon-in-music, based on the Gospel account of Jesus’ night-time conversation with Nicodemus on the subject of 'new life'. A grand French-style overture heralds the start of BWV194 Hochsterwünschtes Freudenfest. The cantata seems to have begun life as a secular Cothen piece some time between 1717 and 1723, and was then adapted for the dedication of the new organ at Stormthal (2 November 1723). The programme ends with the genial and uplifting work, BWV129 Gelobet sei der Herr, mein Gott.

CATALOGUE NR: SDG138
RECORD LABEL: Monteverdi Productions
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: £ 15.99 including VAT, or £ 13.61 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 28-Jan-2008

COMPOSER: Johann Sebastian Bach
TITLE: Cantatas volume 27
TRACKS: Cantatas for Whit Tuesday : Brandenburg Concerto No.3 BWV1048 / Erwunschtes Freudenlicht BWV184 / Er rufet seinen Schafen mit Namen BWV175. Cantatas for Trinity Sunday : Hochsterwunschtes Freudenfest BWV194 / Es ist ein trotzig und verzagt Ding BWV176 / O heil'ges Geist- und Wasserbad BWV165 / Gelobet sei der Herr mein Gott BWV129.
CONDUCTOR: John Eliot Gardiner
ARTISTS: Nathalie Stutzmann   Daniel Taylor   Paul Agnew   Monteverdi Choir

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: recorded Holy Trinity Blythburgh and St Magnus Cathedral Kirkwall - Apr-2008 5 star BBC Music Mag.

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