Magdalena Consort & Peter Harvey - BACH: Cantatas - Recreation for the Soul (2014) [Hi-Res]

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Artist: Elin Manahan Thomas, Daniel Taylor, James Gilchrist, Magdalena Consort, Peter Harvey
Title: BACH: Cantatas - Recreation for the Soul
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: Channel Classics Records
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks, booklet) [192kHz/24bit]
Total Time: 1:03:02
Total Size: 1.96 GB / 299 MB
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

1. Magdalena Consort, Peter Harvey, Elin Manahan Thomas, Daniel Taylor & Jamer Gilchrist – Jesu, der du meine Seele, BWV 78: Coro, "Jesu, der du meine Seele" (05:00)
2. Magdalena Consort, Peter Harvey, Elin Manahan Thomas & Daniel Taylor – Jesu, der du meine Seele, BWV 78: Aria, Duetto, "Wir eilen mit schwachen, doch emsigen Schritten" (04:37)
3. Magdalena Consort, Peter Harvey & James Gilchrist – Jesu, der du meine Seele, BWV 78: Recitativo, "Ach! Ich bin ein Kind der Sünden" (02:02)
4. Magdalena Consort, Peter Harvey & James Gilchrist – Jesu, der du meine Seele, BWV 78: Aria, "Das Blut, so meine Schuld durchstreicht" (02:50)
5. Magdalena Consort & Peter Harvey – Jesu, der du meine Seele, BWV 78: Recitativo, "Die Wunden, Nägel, Kron und Grab" (02:22)
6. Magdalena Consort & Peter Harvey – Jesu, der du meine Seele, BWV 78: Aria, "Nun du wirst mein Gewissen stillen" (02:41)
7. Magdalena Consort, Peter Harvey, Elin Manahan Thomas, Daniel Taylor & James Gilchrist – Jesu, der du meine Seele, BWV 78: Choral, "Herr, ich glaube, hilf mir Schwachen" (01:05)
8. Magdalena Consort & Peter Harvey – Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich, BWV 150: "Sinfonia" (01:24)
9. Magdalena Consort, Peter Harvey, Elin Manahan Thomas, Daniel Taylor & James Gilchrist – Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich, BWV 150: Coro, "Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich" (03:09)
10. Magdalena Consort, Peter Harvey & Elin Manahan Thomas – Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich, BWV 150: Aria, "Doch bin und bleibe ich vergnügt" (01:18)
11. Magdalena Consort, Peter Harvey, Elin Manahan Thomas, Daniel Taylor & James Gilchrist – Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich, BWV 150: Tutti, "Leite mich in deiner Wahrheit und lehre mich" (01:52)
12. Magdalena Consort, Peter Harvey, Daniel Taylor & James Gilchrist – Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich, BWV 150: Aria, "Cedern müssen von den Winden" (01:23)
13. Magdalena Consort, Peter Harvey, Elin Manahan Thomas, Daniel Taylor & James Gilchrist – Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich, BWV 150: Coro, "Meine Augen sehen stets zu dem Herrn" (01:57)
14. Magdalena Consort, Peter Harvey, Elin Manahan Thomas, Daniel Taylor & James Gilchrist – Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich, BWV 150: Ciaccona, "Meine Tage in den Leiden" (03:01)
15. Magdalena Consort, Peter Harvey, Elin Manahan Thomas, Daniel Taylor & James Gilchrist – Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147: Chorus, "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben" (03:37)
16. Magdalena Consort, Peter Harvey & James Gilchrist – Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147: Recitativo accompagnato, "Gebenedeiter Mund!" (01:38)
17. Magdalena Consort, Peter Harvey & Daniel Taylor – Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147: Aria, "Schäme dich, o Seele, nicht" (03:57)
18. Magdalena Consort & Peter Harvey – Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147: Recitativo, "Verstockung kann Gewaltige verblenden" (01:31)
19. Magdalena Consort, Peter Harvey & Elin Manahan Thomas – Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147: Aria, "Bereite dir, Jesu, noch itzo die Bahn" (04:47)
20. Magdalena Consort, Peter Harvey, Elin Manahan Thomas, Daniel Taylor & James Gilchrist – Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147: Choral, "Wohl mir, daß ich Jesum habe" (02:47)
21. Magdalena Consort, Peter Harvey & James Gilchrist – Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147: Aria, "Hilf, Jesu, hilf, daß ich auch dich bekenne" (02:57)
22. Magdalena Consort, Peter Harvey & Daniel Taylor – Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147: Recitativo, "Der höchsten Allmacht Wunderhand" (02:04)
23. Magdalena Consort & Peter Harvey – Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147: Aria, "Ich will von Jesu Wundern singen" (02:26)
24. Magdalena Consort, Peter Harvey, Elin Manahan Thomas, Daniel Taylor & James Gilchrist – Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147: Choral, "Jesu bleibet meine Freude" (02:25)

Bach’s ambition to compose a body of ‘well-regulated church music’ – liturgical music for the entire church calendar – produced a wealth of sacred cantatas. Around two hundred have survived, and are an eloquent expression of his opinion that ‘true music should be for the honour of God and the recreation of the soul’. That comment – made with respect to the art of realising a figured-bass (where harmony is indicated by numbers) – seems appropriate to this collection, since the choice of these glorious works was influenced by a consideration of number symbolism and other extra-musical devices. That this most cerebral music touches the emotions so keenly might seem a paradox, but as a performer, analysing the possible thinking behind Bach’s musical decisions brings the composer closer.Behind the unmatched contrapuntal intricacy of Bach’s music lie yet further layers of complexity, his compositional choices being prompted by the demands of symbolism of various kinds, rhetorical and numerological. Since ancient times, simple proportions had been understood to lie at the heart of musical sound. Mediaeval musicians, finding perfection in the Trinity, developed systems of notation accordingly, with the outcome that triple time was considered tempus perfectum; duple time imperfectum. Given that metre is such an evident characteristic of any music, and since triple time is something that – for us bipeds – will always be a dance, this central tenet of Christian doctrine had considerable (and possibly unintended) consequences for the character of sacred music. Bach, in addition to references to the Trinity (3 and its powers 9 and 27) and Christ’s age (33), also gave significance to numbers derived from his own name (BACH=14, 41=JSBACH, where A=1, B=2 etc.). Since composition apparently cost him comparatively little effort, ‘recreation’ for Bach’s soul seems to have lain in a delight in such convolutions; but whether as compositional spur, marks of devotion or for his private satisfaction, we can only speculate.

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