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BACH, J.S.: Bass Cantatas, BWV 56, 82, 158 |
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Composer: |
Johann Sebastian Bach |
Artist: |
Matthew White, Gotthold Schwarz, Hanno Muller-Brachmann, James Gilchrist, Peter Kooij, Carolyn Sampson, Philippe Huttenlocher, Jochen Kowalski, Rolf Oscher, Hermann Klaiss, Max Schulze, Lisedore Praetorius, Fritz Fischer, Joanne Lunn, Stephen Varcoe, William Towers, Peter Harvey, Rene Jacobs, Hana Blazikova, Else Gohrum, Karl Georg Mentrup, Siegfried Lorenz, Richard Mauersberger, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau |
Conductor: |
Masaaki Suzuki, August Langenbeck, Helmut Muller-Bruhl, Helmuth Rilling, John Eliot Gardiner, Michael Schneider, Kenneth Sillito, Max Pommer, Chiara Banchini |
Choir: |
Leipzig Thomaner Choir, Stuttgart Gachinger Kantorei, Monteverdi Choir, Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Siegen Collegium Vocale, Stuttgart Chamber Choir |
Ensemble: |
Voix Baroques, Les, English Baroque Soloists, Ensemble 415, New Bach Collegium Musicum Leipzig |
Orchestra: |
English Baroque Soloists, Cologne Chamber Orchestra, Stagione Frankfurt, La, Bach Collegium Japan, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Orchestra, Stuttgart Bach Collegium |
Lyricist: |
Bible - New Testament |
Label: |
Naxos |
Catalogue No.: |
8.557616 |
Format: |
CD |
Barcode: |
0747313261628 |
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Intimately bound up with the Lutheran tradition, Bach’s sacred cantatas are among his greatest, most heart-felt and life-affirming works. Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen (I will gladly carry the suffering cross), with its repeated use of the metaphor of life as a voyage over troubled waters, depicts man’s suffering and the joyful expectation of redemption. Ich habe genug (I have enough!), while expressing contempt for earthly suffering, includes one of Bach’s most popular arias, the deeply moving Schlummert ein (Close now, ye tired and weary eyelids), with its fervent expression of the hope of ‘blessed rest and perfect peace’ in the afterlife.
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