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Special offer. JS Bach: Magnificat & Christmas Cantata 63
Reconstruction of Bach's first Christmas Vespers in Leipzig
Julia Doyle (soprano), Joanne Lunn (soprano), Clare Wilkinson (alto), Nicholas Mulroy (tenor), Matthew Brook (bass)
Dunedin Consort, John Butt
It’s an absolute joy – far too good to keep for Christmas. —
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BBC Music Magazine, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2015, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Finalist - Baroque Vocal
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Bach Cantatas Volume 18
Cantatas for Christmas Day, Cantatas for the First Sunday after Epiphany & Cantatas for the Feast of Epiphany
Claron McFadden (soprano), Bernarda Fink (mezzo), Sally Bruce-Payne (alto), Michael Chance (countertenor), James Gilchrist (tenor), Christopher Genz, Dietrich Henschel (baritones)
The Monteverdi Choir & The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
The two strongly contrasting arias [of BWV 63], both duets, are expressively sung but it is Bernarda Fink's beautifully controlled, extended recitative which stands out for its tender articulation...James... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2010, Editor's Choice
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Bach composed Christmas music for more than 30 years of his professional life, but none in such a short a space of time as when he arrived at Leipzig in 1723. He used the relatively quiet Advent... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2003, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Vision.bach - the First Cantata Year, Vol. 5 (bwv 194.2, 60, 90, 70.2, 61, 63)
Tobias Berndt, Miriam Feuersinger, Benedikt Kristjánsson (tenor), Marie Henriette Reinhold (mezzo-soprano), Patrick Grahl (tenor), Catalina Bertucci, Julian Habermann, Gaechinger Cantorey, Hans-Christoph Rademann
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Bach: Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, BWV 80
La Chapelle Royale (early music ensemble), Peter Kooij (bass), Barbara Schlick (soprano), Howard Crook, Gérard Lesne, Ingeborg Danz (contralto), Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Sebastian Noack, Mark Padmore (tenor), Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe
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Bach - Christmas Cantatas
Ann Monoyios, Katherine Fuge (soprano), Sara Mingardo (alto), Derek Lee Ragin (countertenor), Rufus Muller, Julian Podger (tenor), Stephan Loges, Gotthold Schwarz (bass)
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
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JS Bach: In Tempore Nativitatis
Christmas Cantatas
Maria Keohane (soprano), Carlos Mena (alto), Julian Prégardien (tenor) & Stéphan MacLeod (bass)
Ricercar Consort, Philippe Pierlot
Almost everything about this disc is first rate. The playing of the musicians is outstanding throughout. The brass and drums in the big moments of 110 and 63 are thrillingly martial...Pierlot... —
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Special offer. Bach Magnificat
Live at Chapelle Royale, Château de Versailles
Marie Perbost, Hana Blažíková (sopranos), Eva Zaïcik (alto), Thomas Hobbs (tenor), Stephan MacLeod (bass)
La Chapelle Harmonique, Valentin Tournet
If you want to have BWV 243a as an alternative to your recordings of the more familiar version, this is a spectacular disc. —
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JS Bach: Magnificat & Christmas Cantata
Carolyn Sampson, Ingeborg Danz, Mark Padmore, Peter Kooy, Sebastian Noack
Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe
The soloists excel; the music-making is robust yet yielding - Happy Christmas indeed! —
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