J. S. Bach
Cantatas:
BWV 162 [16:08]
BWV 49 [25:42]
BWV 180 [22:48]
Soprano: Magdalena Kožená
Alto: Sara Mingardo
Tenor: Christoph Genz
Bass: Peter Harvey
Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner
Live recordings from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage:
Cattedrale di San Lorenzo, Genova, Italy
Volume 11 CD 1
01. Utrecht Te Deum in D major HWV 278 00:00
02. Utrecht Jubilate in D major HWV 279 24:44
03. Queen Caroline Te Deum in D major HWV 280 42:24
04. Chandos Te Deum in B flat major HWV 281 57:50
05. Te Deum in A major HWV 282 01:32:18
06. Dettingen Te Deum in D major HWV 283 01:48:22
Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, The Academy of Ancient Music, Simon Preston
Netherlands Bach Society
Jos Van Veldhoven
Les Arts Florissants, William Christie
Gerhard Jenemann
Drottningholms Baroque Ensemble*
Vocalsolisten Frankfurt
Concerto Polacco
Alsfelder Vocal Ensemble
Helbich, Wolfgang
Choir of Westminster Abbey
The English Concert
Trevor Pinnock
Simon Preston
Johannes-Passion, BWV 245, II. Teil: 39. Chorus «Ruht wohl, ihr heiligen Gebeine» · Collegium Vocale Gent · Philippe Herreweghe
J.S. Bach: Johannes-Passion
℗ harmonia mundi s.a.
Released on: 2007-07-31
Artist: Collegium Vocale Gent
Orchestra: Collegium Vocale Gent
Artist: Philippe Herreweghe
Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Provided to YouTube by Warner Classics International
St Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: Chorus. «Kommt, ihr Töchter, helft mir klagen» · Nikolaus Harnoncourt · Choir of Kings College, Cambridge · Regensburger Domspatzen
Bach: St Matthew Passion, BWV 244
℗ 1970 Teldec Classics, a Warner Music UK Division
Choir: Choir of Kings College, Cambridge
Orchestra: Concentus Musicus Wien
Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Chorus: Regensburger Domspatzen
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
“China’s premier interpreter of Bach”, is what International Piano Magazine called Yuan Sheng. A pupil of Solomon Mikowsky (Manhattan School of Music) and notably Rosalyn Tureck, Yuan Sheng extensively studied the performance practice of Baroque music. Equally at home at the harpsichord he has an instinctive feeling for the possibilities, sonorities and touch of the instrument at hand, so that “the listener might easily have imagined the composer at the keyboard” (Boston Intelligencer).
The title is misleading: the English Suites are more ‘French’ in character than the French Suites, which are more characteristic of the Italian style. ‘By design the composer is here less learned than in his other suites,’ remarked one early biographer, ‘and has mostly used a pleasing, more predominant melody.’ Just so, and the same is true of the pair of suites BWV 818 and 819 which fall outside the collection but belong with it in terms of style. To all of them Yuan Sheng brings considered tempi and precise articulation in the mould of Tureck. To Bach at his most uncomplicated, Sheng brings the virtues of simplicity and clarity.
Again Yuan Sheng draws the listener into his highly intelligent musical discourse, vibrant and moving, speaking through the medium of a modern Steinway piano.
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Artist: Yuan Sheng (piano)
