My first experince with this composition was during a concerto in my village. I can say that is not an ordinary clerical composition, a Missa, it's something different: we can find the most important mistery of our religion: Christ's resurrection.
Everyone knows the most famous choral that in german has title "Jesus bleibet meine Freude". This Bach's masterpiece is unusual composition: we can hear choral parts and solostic ones; it's divided in two part: the first one reminds the Maria's Promise, when angel Gabriel announces her that God has chosen her to make the mother of his son: Jesus. The latter speaks about God's and Jesus's miracles. At the end of the first part we find an invocational choral that shout all over the world the belonging to God; at the end there is "Jesus bleibet meine Freude".
Excuse me for my awful english, but I'm looking for better it. ...
socra89 09.01.2008
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Product details
Title
Bach: Cantatas BWV140 & BWV147
Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)
Main Performer
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Tenor); Michael Chance (Alto); Ruth Holton (Soprano); Stephen Varcoe (Bass)
Orchestra / Ensemble(s)
Monteverdi Choir; (The) English Concert Orchestra; English Baroque Soloists Orchestra
Date of Release
16/10/2000
Label / Distributor
Archiv Produktion / Universal Manufacturing and Logistics
Pieces in Set
1
Running Time
1 hour 53 minutes
Genre(s)
Vocal and choral
SPAR Code
DDD
EAN
28946358726
Catalogue Number
463
Work 1
Work Title
Cantata No. 140, 'Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme', BWV140
Excerpt(s)
1. Chorus: Wachet auf! wachet auf! ruft uns die Stimme 2. Recit: Er kommt, er koomt, der Bräut'gam kommt! (T) 3. Aria (Duet): Wann kommst du, mein Heil? (S,B) 4. Choral: Zion hört die Wächter singen (T) 5. Recit: So geh'herein zu mir (B) 6. Aria (Duet): Mein Freund ist mein! (S,B) 7. Choral: Gloria sei dir gesungen (chor)
Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)
Genre
Vocal & Choral
Date Written
1731
Date Recorded
1990
Conductor
Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Orchestra / Ensemble
Monteverdi Choir
Orchestra / Ensemble
(The) English Concert Orchestra
Main Performer
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Tenor), Michael Chance (Alto), Ruth Holton (Soprano), Stephen Varcoe (Bass)
Opera Part(s)
Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Michael Chance, Ruth Holton, Stephen Varcoe
Work 2
Work Title
Cantata No. 147, 'Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben', BWV147
Excerpt(s)
1. PART 1 - Chorus: Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben 2. Recit: Gebene deiter Mund! (T) 3. Aria: Schäme dich, O Seele (A) 4. Recit: Verstokkung kann Gewaltigeverblenden (B) 5. Aria: Bereite dir, Jesu, noch itzo die Bahn (S) 6. Choral: Wohl mir, dass ich Jesum habe (chor) 7. PART 2 - Aria: Hilf, jesu, hilf (T) 8. Recit: Der höchsten Allmacht Wunderhand (A) 9. Aria: Ich will von Jesu Wunden (B) 10. Choral: Jesu bleibet meine Freude (Jesu, joy of man's desiri
Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)
Genre
Vocal & Choral
Date Written
1723
Date Recorded
1990
Conductor
Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Orchestra / Ensemble
English Baroque Soloists Orchestra
Orchestra / Ensemble
Monteverdi Choir
Main Performer
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Tenor), Michael Chance (Alto), Ruth Holton (Soprano), Stephen Varcoe (Bass)
Opera Part(s)
Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Michael Chance, Ruth Holton, Stephen Varcoe
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