J. S. Bach
Cantatas:
BWV 109 [25:11]
BWV 38 [16:29]
BWV 98 [13:20]
BWV 188 [23:40]
Soprano:Joanne Lunn
Counter-tenor: William Towers
Tenor: Paul Agnew
Bass: Gotthold Schwarz
Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner
Live recordings from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage:
Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, England
Volume 11 Cd 2
Johan Sebastian Bach
Christmas Oratorio BWV 248
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Concentus Musicus Wien
Peter Schreier — Tenor
Robert Holl — Bass
Soloists of the Tolzer Knabenchor
Chorusmaster: Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden
Fisrt Part: Cantatas No 1 — 3
J. S. Bach
Cantatas
BWV 70 [22:59]
BWV 132 [17:40]
BWV 147 [28:07]
Soprano: Brigitte Geller
Counter-tenor: Michael Chance
Tenor: Jan Kobow
Bass: Dietrich Henschel
Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner
Live recordings from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage:
Michaeliskirche, Lüneburg, Germany.
Volume 13 CD 2
Internationally acclaimed vocal group VOCES8 headline the Academy of Ancient Musics performance of Handels beloved oratorio Messiah, recorded live at the Chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge.
PROGRAMME:
George Frideric Handel (1685 — 1759)
Messiah HWV56
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PART THE FIRST
00:00:10 — Symphony
00:03:30 — Comfort Ye My People (Blake Morgan, tenor)
00:06:54 — Evry Valley Shall Be Exalted (Euan Williamson, tenor)
00:10:33 — And The Glory Of The Lord
00:13:24 — Thus Saith The Lord (Christopher Moore, bass)
00:14:47 — But Who May Abide The Day Of His Coming (Katie Jeffries-Harris, alto)
00:19:10 — And He Shall Purify
00:21:38 — Behold, A Virgin Shall Conceive (Katie Jeffries-Harris, alto)
00:22:15 — O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings To Zion (Katie Jeffries-Harris, alto)
00:27:33 — For Unto Us A Child Is Born
00:31:52 — Pastoral Symphony
00:33:00 — There Were Shepherds Abiding In The Field (Eleonore Cockerham, soprano)
00:33:58 — And Suddenly There Was With An Angel (Eleonore Cockerham, soprano)
00:36:09 — Rejoice Greatly, O Daughter Of Zion (Penelope Appleyard, soprano)
00:40:50 — Then Shall The Eyes Of The Blind (Katie Jeffries-Harris, alto)
00:41:26 — He Shall Feed His Flock (Katie Jeffries-Harris, alto
Иоганн Себастьян Бах (21 (31) марта 1685, Эйзенах, Саксен-Эйзенах — 28 июля 1750, Лейпциг, Саксония, Священная Римская империя) — немецкий композитор, органист-виртуоз, капельмейстер, музыкальный педагог.
За свою жизнь Бах написал более 1000 произведений. В его творчестве представлены все значимые жанры того времени, кроме оперы; он обобщил достижения музыкального искусства периода барокко. Бах — знаменитый мастер полифонии, продолжатель старинных традиций, в творчестве Баха полифония достигает расцвета.
Все великие композиторы и гении классической музыки на одном канале: Шопен, Моцарт, Шуберт, Мусоргский, Бах, Чайковский, Вивальди, Бетховен, Дебюсси и многие другие!
TRACKLIST:
Лучшее из Баха
01. Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 Toccata
02. Suite No.2 in B minor, BWV 1067 Badinerie (2:59)
03. Suite No.3 in D major, BWV 1068 Air (4:26)
04. Suite No.4 in D major, BWV 1069 Rejouissance (9:50)
05. Brandenburg Concerto No.1 in F major, BWV 1046 Adagio (12:23)
06. Brandenburg Concerto No.2 in F major, BWV 1047 Allegro Assai (17:43)
07. Brandenburg Concerto No.3 in G major, BWV 1048 Allegro (21:08)
08. Concerto in C minor for Violin and Oboe, BWV 1060 Adagio (24:39)
09. Double Concerto in D minor, BWV 1043 Largo ma non Tanto (31:15)
10. Piano Concerto No.5 in F minor, BWV 1056 Largo (38:07)
11. Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041 Allegro Assai (40:59)
12. Violin Concerto No.2 in E major, BWV 1042 Adagio (44:51)
13. Sonata No.3 in C major for Solo Violin, BWV 1005 Largo (52:22)
14. Wachet auf, Cantata, BWV 140 No.1 (55:48)
15. Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659 (1:01:40)
16. Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248 Sinfonia (1:06:26)
17. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 Aria (1:12:27)
18. Jesu Joy of Mans Desiring, BWV 147 (1:15:48)
Baroque music is a period or style of Western art music composed from approximately 1600 to 1750. This era followed the Renaissance music era, and was followed in turn by the Classical era. Baroque music forms a major portion of the «classical music» canon, and is now widely studied, performed, and listened to. Key composers of the Baroque era include Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, George Frideric Handel, Claudio Monteverdi, Domenico Scarlatti, Alessandro Scarlatti, Henry Purcell, Georg Philipp Telemann, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Arcangelo Corelli, Tomaso Albinoni, François Couperin, Giuseppe Tartini, Heinrich Schütz, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Dieterich Buxtehude, and Johann Pachelbel.
The Baroque period saw the creation of common-practice tonality, an approach to writing music in which a song or piece is written in a particular key; this kind of arrangement has continued to be used in almost all Western popular music. During the Baroque era, professional musicians were expected to be accomplished improvisers of both solo melodic lines and accompaniment parts. Baroque concerts were typically accompanied by a basso continuo group (comprising chord-playing instrumentalists such as harpsichordists and lute players improvising chords from a figured bass part) while a group of bass instruments—viol, cello, double bass—played the bassline. A characteristic Baroque form was the dance suite. While the pieces in a dance suite were inspired by actual dance music, dance suites were designed purely for listening, not for accompanying dancers.
During the period, composers and performers used more elaborate musical ornamentation (typically improvised by performers), made changes in musical notation (the development of figured bass as a quick way to notate the chord progression of a song or piece), and developed new instrumental playing techniques. Baroque music expanded the size, range, and complexity of instrumental performance, and also established the mixed vocal/instrumental forms of opera, cantata and oratorio and the instrumental forms of the solo concerto and sonata as musical genres. Many musical terms and concepts from this era, such as toccata, fugue and concerto grosso are still in use in the 2010s. Dense, complex polyphonic music, in which multiple independent melody lines were performed simultaneously (a popular example of this is the fugue), was an important part of many Baroque choral and instrumental works.
The term «baroque» comes from the Portuguese word barroco, meaning «misshapen pearl». Negative connotations of the term first occurred in 1734, in a criticism of an opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau, and later (1750) in a description by Charles de Brosses of the ornate and heavily ornamented architecture of the Pamphili Palace in Rome; and from Jean Jacques Rousseau in 1768 in the Encyclopédie in his criticism of music that was overly complex and unnatural. Although the term continued to be applied to architecture and art criticism through the 19th century, it was not until the 20th century that the term «baroque» was adopted from Heinrich Wölfflins art-history vocabulary to designate a historical period in music.