Bach: Advent & Christmas Cantatas / Rilling, Bach Ensemble

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Contains Cantatas BWV 36, 40, 57, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 91, 110, 121, 122, 123, 132, 133, 151 & 191.REVIEW:Before Christmas and much of its...

Contains Cantatas BWV 36, 40, 57, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 91, 110, 121, 122, 123, 132, 133, 151 & 191.

REVIEW:

Before Christmas and much of its music was commercialised, there was Bach – pre-eminently the greatest composer of the season, unfailingly cutting to the emotional and spiritual quick of the texts he set to music. This six-disc box of Advent and Christmas cantatas from Helmuth Rilling’s complete series is a wonderful digest of Bach’s unparallelled achievement in this area.

The intensity of colour and expression in these works is stunning – the surging, brass-capped elation of Unser Mund sei voll Lachens, so full of the simple joy of the Christian message, the searching meditation on temptation in Selig ist der Mann, the seemingly bottomless well of spiritual sustenance plumbed in the chorale conclusions.

The soloists are generally distinguished, and sometimes excellent – tenor Peter Schreier and soprano Arleen Augér both give object lessons in Bach style in their Schwingt freudig euch empor arias, while Helen Donath, Helen Watts and Kurt Equiluz are among other well-known singers making a contribution.

Rilling’s performances (on modern instruments) are neatly tailored and naturally benevolent in nature, buoyant with the wholesomeness and warmth that this great music so frequently emanates. There is simply no better way of celebrating a musical Christmas.


Performance: 5 (out of 5), Sound: 4 (out of 5)

-- Terry Blain, BBC Music Magazine



Product Description:

  • Release Date: July 21, 2009


  • UPC: 4010276021773


  • Catalog Number: 98551


  • Label: Haenssler Classic


  • Number of Discs: 6


  • Period: Baroque


  • Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach


  • Conductor: Helmuth Rilling


  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart, Stuttgart Bach Collegium


  • Performer: Rilling, Bach-Collegium Stuttgart, Gaechinger Kantorei



Works:

  1. Schwingt freudig euch empor, BWV 36

    Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ensemble: Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart, Stuttgart Bach Collegium

    Conductor: Helmuth Rilling


  2. Dazu ist erschienen der Sohn Gottes, BWV 40

    Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ensemble: Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart, Stuttgart Bach Collegium

    Conductor: Helmuth Rilling


  3. Selig ist der Mann, der die Anfechtung erdulet, BWV 57

    Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ensemble: Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart, Stuttgart Bach Collegium

    Conductor: Helmuth Rilling


  4. Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 61

    Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ensemble: Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart, Stuttgart Bach Collegium

    Conductor: Helmuth Rilling


  5. Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 62

    Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ensemble: Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart, Stuttgart Bach Collegium

    Conductor: Helmuth Rilling


  6. Christen, ätzet diesen Tag, BWV 63

    Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ensemble: Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart, Stuttgart Bach Collegium

    Conductor: Helmuth Rilling


  7. Sehet, welch eine Liebe, BWV 64

    Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ensemble: Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart, Stuttgart Bach Collegium

    Conductor: Helmuth Rilling


  8. Sie werden aus Saba alle kommen, BWV 65

    Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ensemble: Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart, Stuttgart Bach Collegium

    Conductor: Helmuth Rilling


  9. Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ, BWV 91

    Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ensemble: Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart, Stuttgart Bach Collegium

    Conductor: Helmuth Rilling


  10. Unser Mund sei voll Lachens, BWV 110

    Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ensemble: Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart, Stuttgart Bach Collegium

    Conductor: Helmuth Rilling


  11. Christum wir sollen loben schon, BWV 121

    Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ensemble: Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart, Stuttgart Bach Collegium

    Conductor: Helmuth Rilling


  12. Das neugeborne Kindelein, BWV 122

    Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ensemble: Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart, Stuttgart Bach Collegium

    Conductor: Helmuth Rilling


  13. Liebster Immanuel, Herzog der Frommen, BWV 123

    Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ensemble: Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart, Stuttgart Bach Collegium

    Conductor: Helmuth Rilling


  14. Bereitet die Wege, bereitet die Bahn!, BWV 132

    Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ensemble: Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart, Stuttgart Bach Collegium

    Conductor: Helmuth Rilling


  15. Ich freue mich in dir, BWV 133

    Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ensemble: Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart, Stuttgart Bach Collegium

    Conductor: Helmuth Rilling


  16. Süsser Trost, mein Jesus kömmt, BWV 151

    Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ensemble: Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart, Stuttgart Bach Collegium

    Conductor: Helmuth Rilling


  17. Gloria in excelsis Deo, BWV 191

    Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ensemble: Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart, Stuttgart Bach Collegium

    Conductor: Helmuth Rilling