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Monteverdi Choir Hamburg, Jürgen Jürgens

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Patches of engaging music-making here, though giving more insight into 1960s Hamburg than 1720s Leipzig. Choruses are often woolly, soloists vary from off-the-voice big voices to insecure,...

BBC Music Magazine, March 20093 out of 5 stars

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Release date: 6th Oct 2008
Label: Warner Classics
Series: Das Alte Werk
Catalogue number: 2564695992
Length: 2 hours 25 minutes
Genres:
- Cantatas,
- Anthems & Motets

Contents and tracklist

ExcerptBach, J S: Cantata BWV106 'Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit' (Actus tragicus)

Work length17:18

Frans Brüggen (recorder), Gustav Leonhardt (organ), Heinrich Haferland (viola da gamba), Jeanette van Wingerden (recorder), Veronika Hampe (viola da gamba), Bert van t'Hoff (tenor), Jacques Villisech (bass), Julia Falk (contralto)
Leonhardt-Consort, Monteverdi-Chor Hamburg
Jürgen Jürgens

I Sonatina

Track length2:46

II Chorus "Gottes Zeit ist die beste Zeit"

Track length8:53

III Duet [alto, bass] "In deine Hände"

Track length5:39

Bach, J S: Cantata No.106 Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit [Actus tragicus] BWV106 : IV Chorus - "Glorie, Lob, Ehr und Herrlichkeit" [Choir]

Work length2:48

Frans Brüggen (recorder), Gustav Leonhardt (organ), Heinrich Haferland (viola da gamba), Jeanette van Wingerden (recorder), Veronika Hampe (viola da gamba)
Leonhardt-Consort, Monteverdi-Chor Hamburg
Jürgen Jürgens

ExcerptBach, J S: Cantata BWV182 'Himmelskönig, sei willkommen'

Work length5:21

Frans Brüggen (recorder), Gustav Leonhardt (organ)
Leonhardt-Consort, Monteverdi-Chor Hamburg
Jürgen Jürgens

I Sonata

Track length2:05

II Chorus - "Himmelskönig, sei willkommen" [Choir]

Track length3:16

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV182 'Himmelskönig, sei willkommen'

Work length24:41

Frans Brüggen (recorder), Gustav Leonhardt (organ), Jacques Villisech (bass), Julia Falk (contralto), Bert van t'Hoff (tenor)
Leonhardt-Consort, Monteverdi-Chor Hamburg
Jürgen Jürgens

III Recit [bass] "Siehe, ich komme"

Track length0:50

IV Aria [bass] "Starkes Lieben"

Track length3:30

V Aria [alto] "Leget euch dem Heiland unter"

Track length7:01

VI Aria [tenor] "Jesu, laß durch Wohl und Weh"

Track length5:39

VII Chorale "Jesu, deine Passion"

Track length3:27

VIII Chorus "So lasset uns gehen in Salem der Freuden"

Track length4:14

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV152 'Tritt auf die Glaubenbahn'

Work length18:37

Ad Mater (oboe), Anner Bylsma (cello), Frans Brüggen (recorder), Fred Nijenhus (double bass), Gustav Leonhardt (organ), Veronika Hampe (viola da gamba), Wim ten Have (viola), Jacques Villisech (bass), Agnes Giebel (soprano)
Jürgen Jürgens

I Concerto

Track length3:24

II Aria - "Tritt auf die Glaubensbahn" [Bass]

Track length3:12

III Recitative - "Der Heiland ist gesetzt" [Bass]

Track length1:40

IV Aria - "Stein, der über alle Schätze" [Boy Soprano]

Track length4:14

V Recitative - "Es ärgre sich die kluge Welt" [Bass]

Track length1:17

VI Duet - "Wie soll ich dich, Liebster der Seelen, umfassen?" [Boy Soprano, Bass]

Track length4:50

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV118 O Jesu Christ, mein's Lebens Licht - Motet for the funeral of Count Joachim Friedrich von Flemming [died 11.10.1740]

Work length3:45

Adriaan van Woudenberg (horn), Cees Blokker (trombone), Fred Grin (trumpet), Gustav Leonhardt (organ), Hans Maassen (trombone), Hermann Baumann (horn), Jaap Klemann (trombone), Wim Groot (trumpet)
Monteverdi-Chor Hamburg
Jürgen Jürgens

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV18 'Gleichwie der Regen und Schnee vom Himmel fällt'

Work length14:26

Anner Bylsma (cello), F.J.M. Buurmann (bassoon), Frans Brüggen (recorder), Frans Jansen (viola), Gustav Leonhardt (organ), Jaap Schröder (viola), Jeanette van Wingerden (recorder), Lodevijk de Boer (viola), Wim ten Have (viola), Jacques Villisech (bass), Bert van t'Hoff (tenor), Lodewijk de Boer (viola), Agnes Giebel (soprano)
Monteverdi-Chor Hamburg
Jürgen Jürgens

I Sinfonia

Track length3:10

II Recitative - "Gleichwie der Regen und Schnee" [Bass]

Track length1:05

III Recitative & Litany - "Mein Gott, hier wird mein Herze sein" [Boy Soprano, Tenor, Bass, Choir]

Track length5:50

IV Aria - "Mein Seelenschatz ist Gottes Wort" [Boy Soprano]

Track length3:04

V Chorale - "Ich bitt, o Herr, aus Herzensgrund" [Choir]

Track length1:17

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV89 'Was soll ich aus dir machen, Ephraim?'

Work length11:59

Gustav Leonhardt (organ), Max van Egmond (bass), Helen Watts (contralto), Sheila Armstrong (soprano)
Concerto Amsterdam, Monteverdi-Chor Hamburg
Jürgen Jürgens

I Aria - "Was soll ich aus dir machen, Ephraim?" [Bass]

Track length3:39

II Recitative - "Ja, freilich sollte Gott" [Alto]

Track length0:48

III Aria - "Ein unbarmherziges Gerichte" [Alto]

Track length3:06

IV Recitative - "Wohlan! mein Herze legt Zorn" [Soprano]

Track length1:01

V Aria - "Gerechter Gott, ach, rechnest du?" [Soprano]

Track length2:32

VI Chorale - "Mir mangelt zwar sehr viel" [Choir]

Track length0:53

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV90 'Es reißet euch ein schrecklich Ende'

Work length13:44

Gustav Leonhardt (organ), Kurt Equiluz (tenor), Helen Watts (contralto), Max van Egmond (bass)
Concerto Amsterdam, Monteverdi-Chor Hamburg
Jürgen Jürgens

I Aria - "Es reisset euch ein schrecklich Ende" [Tenor]

Track length6:40

II Recitative - "Des Höchsten Güte wird von Tag zu Tage neu" [Alto]

Track length1:33

III Aria - "So löschet im Eifer der rächende Ritter" [Bass]

Track length3:44

IV Recitative - "Doch Gottes Auge sieht auf uns als Auserwählte" [Tenor]

Track length0:38

V Chorale - "Leit uns mit deiner rechten Hand" [Choir]

Track length1:09

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV161 'Komm, du süsse Todesstunde'

Work length21:43

Helen Watts (contralto), Kurt Equiluz (tenor)
Concerto Amsterdam, Monteverdi-Chor Hamburg
Jürgen Jürgens

I Aria - "Komm, du süsse Todesstunde" [Alto]

Track length5:21

II Recitative - "Welt, deine Lust ist Last" [Tenor]

Track length2:13

III Aria - "Mein Verlangen" [Tenor]

Track length6:15

IV Recitative - "Der Schluss ist schon gemacht" [Alto]

Track length2:25

V Chorus - "Wenn es meines Gottes Wille" [Choir]

Track length3:59

VI Chorale - "Der Leib ist zwar in der Erden" [Choir]

Track length1:30

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV59 'Wer mich liebet, der wird mein Wort halten'

Work length10:45

Gustav Leonhardt (organ), Max van Egmond (bass), Sheila Armstrong (soprano)
Concerto Amsterdam, Monteverdi-Chor Hamburg
Jürgen Jürgens

I Duet - "Wer mich liebet" [Soprano, Bass]

Track length3:57

II Recitative - "O, was sind das vor Ehren" [Soprano]

Track length2:06

III Chorale - "Komm, heiliger Geist, Herre Gott" [Choir]

Track length1:47

IV Aria - "Die Welt mit allen Königreichen" [Bass]

Track length2:55

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March 2009

Patches of engaging music-making here, though giving more insight into 1960s Hamburg than 1720s Leipzig. Choruses are often woolly, soloists vary from off-the-voice big voices to insecure, boyish sounds.

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