J. S. BACH

 

Eternal Fire

 

Choruses

 

1. BWV 34 O ewiges Feuer

2. BWV 103 Ihr werdet Weinen

3. BWV 80 Ein feste Burg           

4. BWV 178 Wo Gott der Herr nicht bei uns haelt

5. BWV 101 Nimm von uns,Herr

6. BWV 39 Brich den hungrigen dein Brot

7. BWV 12 Weinen Klagen Sorgen Zagen

8. BWV 176 Es ist ein trotzig

9. BWV 19 Es erhub sich ein Streit

10. BWV 27 Wer weisst wir nah emir mein Ende

11. BWV 20 O Ewigwkeit du Donnerwort

12. BWV 186 Aergre dich , o Seele, nich

13. BWV 95 Christus der ist mein Leben

14. BWV 8 Liebster Gott

 

Monteverdi Choir

English Baroque Soloists / John Eliot Gardiner

 

Eternal fire is the perfect introduction to the glory and grandeur of Bach’s wonderful choral universe. It features a superb collection of the greatest choruses from the award-winning Bach Cantatas series, hand picked by world renowned conductor John Eliot Gardiner.

 

On Christmas Day 1999 a unique celebration of the new millennium began in the Herderkirche in Weimar, Germany: the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists under the direction of Sir John Eliot Gardiner set out to perform all Johann Sebastian Bach’s surviving church cantatas in the course of the year 2000, the 250th anniversary of Bach’s death. The fourteen choruses heard here were recorded during the course of the Pilgrimage and each exhibit clearly Bach’s depth, originality and incomparable genius.

 

Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in the booklet note describes each chorus as a masterpiece in its own right and that each displays “an almost unfathomable emotional range wedded to intellectual depth and layered with tireless invention, meaning and beauty.”

 

Soli Deo Gloria SDG177