John Eliot Gardiner, Monteverdi Choir - Bach Motets (2014) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden, BWV 230
02. Komm, Jesu, komm, BWV 229
03. Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf, BWV 226
04. Jesu, meine Freude
05. Es ist nun nichts Verdammliches an denen
06. Unter deinen Schirmen
07. Denn das Gesetz des Geistes
08. Trotz dem alten Drachen
09. Ihr aber seid nicht fleischlich
10. Weg mit allen Schatzen
11. So aber Christus in euch ist
12. Gute Nacht, o Wesen
13. So nun der Geist
14. Weicht, ihr Trauergeister
15. Furchte dich nicht, ich bin bei dir, BWV 228
16. Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied
17. Wie sich ein Vater erbarmet - Gott, nimm dich ferner unser an
18. Lobet den Herrn in seinen Taten
19. Ich lasse dich nicht, du segnest mich denn, BWV Anh. 159



Thirty years on from their acclaimed recording for Erato, Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir return to the Bach Motets in a new SDG recording, taken from a concert in London last year at the end of a tour which saw performances in Italy, France, The Netherlands and Germany.

The Motets can be seen as some of Bach’s most perfect and hypnotic compositions. Through their extraordinary complexity and density, they require exceptional virtuosity and sensitivity of all the performers.

Each of them is endlessly fascinating, and each inhabits its own sound world, Bach's masterful use of canon, fugue and counterpoint, the brilliant exploitation of double-choir sonorities are perfectly matched by the Monteverdi Choir's virtuosity.

The album is packaged in a hard back book similar to our other releases. It contains 44 pages booklet with original notes by John Eliot Gardiner and texts in German, English and French.

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