What we have here, ladies and gentlemen, is that rarest of rare things: a genuine world-premiere recording of a piece by Johann Sebastian Bach appropriately entitled Alles mit Gott und nichts ohn' (All with Got and Nothing Without). A single-movement cantata setting of a birthday ode for Duke Wilhelm Ernst of Saxe-Weimar composed in 1713, the work ...
Even at their most celebratory, John Eliot Gardiner's performances of Bach's cantatas are essentially very personal. In this two-disc set of seven cantatas for the Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity and for the Feast of St. Michael and All Angels, Gardiner and his English Baroque Soloists and Monteverdi Choir deliver performances that have an inward, ...
This two-disc set is volume 21 in conductor John Eliot Gardiner's series of recordings of Bach's complete sacred cantatas -- a project dubbed "The Bach Cantata Pilgrimage" because each disc preserves a complete concert given at different locations around the world. On the first disc, recorded at King's College Chapel in Cambridge on March 5, 2000, ...
Schumann's Das Paradies und die Peri, written when he was 33, contains some immensely appealing music, so it's unfortunate it's so rarely performed or recorded. The secular Romantic oratorio is a genre that's not much in style, so it's especially nice to have such a fine performance available on this RCA SACD. Nikolaus Harnoncourt, whose use of ...
Haydn's operas lag substantially behind the rest of his output in terms of popularity. It wasn't that he was disinclined to write for voices, as anyone who has heard his late choral masterpieces will testify. More likely, the problem is that the formally simple, melodically oriented language of serious opera in his time offered little scope for an ...
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