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Bach Cantatas Volume 13
Recorded live: Köln/Lüneburg, December 2000
The Monteverdi Choir & The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
These half-dozen masterpieces offer as an alluring a conspectus of Bach's sublime inspiration as I can think of. Gardiner and his musicians are on splendid form. In BWV 61 bass Dietrich Henschel's... —
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Bach Cantatas Volume 22
Easter cantatas
The Monteverdi Choir & The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
John Eliot Gardiner's strongest qualities are evident in these performances of six Easter cantatas made in his on-going Bach Cantata Pilgrimage series. I particularly admire the fervour with... —
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Bach Cantatas Volume 24
Cantatas for the Third and Fourth Sundays after Easter
Brigitte Geller, William Towers, Mark Padmore, Julian Clarkson, Robin Tyson, James Gilchrist, Stephen Varcoe
The Monteverdi Choir, The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
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Bach Cantatas Volume 11
Cantatas for the Twentieth Sunday after Trinity (Genoa) & Cantatas for the Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity (London)
Joanne Lunn (soprano), Magdalena Kožená, Sara Mingardo (mezzos), William Towers (alto), Christoph Genz, Paul Agnew (tenors), Peter Harvey, Gotthold Schwarz (basses)
The Monteverdi Choir &The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
Peter Harvey offers an evenly sustained and crisply articulated account of the opening aria [of 162] while Sara Mingardo and Christopher Genz are pleasingly matched in their beautiful C major... —
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Bach Cantatas Volume 23
Cantatas for the First and Second Sunday after Easter
Katharine Fuge, Gillian Keith, Daniel Taylor, William Towers, Charles Daniels, Norbert Meyn & Stephen Varcoe
The Monteverdi Choir & The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
The seven cantatas here, nominally representing the works for the two Sundays after Easter, cover an unusual range from No 150 to the dazzling maturity of three pastoral cantatas from three... —
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Bach Cantatas Volume 25
Cantatas for the Fifth Sunday after Easter & Cantatas for the Sunday after Ascension Day
Katharine Fuge, Robin Tyson, Steve Davislim & Stephan Loges, Joanne Lunn, Daniel Taylor, Paul Agnew & Panajotis Iconomou
The Monteverdi Choir & The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
This is Bach at a very high level - a match for anything else that is currently available on disc. —
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Musically, the performances are first rate, with the slow introduction to Symphony No. 39 sounding grander and more solemn than it does in Charles Mackerras's widely-admired version with the... —
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Bach Cantatas Volume 17
Cantatas for New Year’s Day and the Sunday after New Year
Ruth Holton, Sally Bruce Payne, Lucy Ballard, Charles Humphries, James Gilchrist & Peter Harvey
The Monteverdi Choir & The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
Soloists are superb throughout, Ruth Holton (soprano) specially striking for her transparent almost boy-like tone (BWV 58), and James Gilchrist (tenor) matching instrumental agility while a... —
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Bach Cantatas Volume 20
Cantatas for Septuagesima (Grote Kerk, Naarden) & Cantatas for Sexagesima (Southwell Minster)
The Monteverdi Choir & The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
…expressive fervour and eloquent phrasing with which the excellent singers of the Monteverdi Choir infuse their performance. There are also some splendid solo contributions, notably from tenors... —
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Bach Cantatas Volume 4
Recorded live: Ansbach and Haddington, July & August 2000
The Monteverdi Choir & The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
Best known among this clutch of cantatas is the solo alto 'Vergnügte Ruh'. Michael Chance turns in a fervent performance, tonally pure and full of expressive nuance. Praise, too, to Susanne... —
