JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685-1750)

 

Cantatas Volume 10

 

CD 1 Cantatas for the Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity

Ich elender Mensch, wer wird mich erlösen BWV 48

Wo soll ich fliehen hin BWV 5

Es reisset euch ein schrecklich Ende BWV 90 (for the Twenty-fifth Sunday after Trinity)

Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen BWV 56

(recorded: Potsdam, Erlöserkirche) - soloists: Joanne Lunn, William Towers, James Gilchrist, Peter Harvey

 

CD 2 Cantatas for the Feast of the Reformation

Gott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild BWV 79

Nun danket alle Gott BWV 192 (occasion unspecified)

Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott BWV 80

(recorded: Wittenberg, Schlosskirche) - soloists: Joanne Lunn, William Towers, James Gilchrist, Peter Harvey

 

The Monteverdi Choir, The English Baroque Soloists/ John Eliot Gardiner

 

Alongside some magnificent, less well-known cantatas, this set contains two of Bach’s most famous works: the “Kreuzstab” Cantata BWV 56 for solo bass, expressing the desire to relieve Christ of the burden of the Cross, is an intimate yet intensely dramatic work, poignantly sung by Peter Harvey;  BWV 80 “Ein feste Burg” is, by contrast, a monumental choral cantata celebrating the most intrinsically Lutheran festivity, the Feast of the Reformation - from the colossal, initial choral fugue to the final chorale it is a veritable rollercoaster!

 

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