in Early Music Today (Mar, 2016)
Rarely, very rarely, a recording comes along that because of its content and level of performance seems to be hors concours. This is just such a recording. ‘Content’ here takes on special relevance, since beyond the bald heading above what we have is a reconstruction of Bach’s first Leipzig Christmas Vespers as given in the Nicolaikirche on 25 December 1723. Thus in addition to Christen, atzet diesen Tag, BWV 63, composed in Weimar in 1714, and the E-flat version of the Magnificat, with its inserted Christmas Laudes, there is also a Giovanni Gabrieli motet, congregational hymns (sung with spine-tingling fervour) and appropriate organ preludes. Because of the length of …
Bach, Johann Sebastian: Magnificat & Christmas Cantata
Hodie Christus natus est (Motette)
Präludium über Gott, durch deine Güte BWV 600
Christen, ätzet diesen Tag BWV 63 (Kantate)
Chor: Christen, ätztet diesen Tag
Rezitatv: O selger Tag!
Arie: Gott, du hast es wohl gefüget
Rezitativ: So kehret sich nun heut
Arie: Ruft und fleht den Himmel an
Rezitativ: Verdoppelt euch demnach
Chor: Höchster, schau in Gnaden an
Präludium über Vom Himmel hoch BWV 606
Vom Himmel hoch (Choral)
Fuga sopra il Magnificat Meine Seele erhebet den Herren BWV 733
Magnificat Es-Dur BWV 243a
Magnificat
Et exsultavit
Vom Himmel hoch
Quia respexit
Omnes generationes
Quia fecit
Freut euch und jubiliret
Et misericordia
Fecit potentiam
Gloria in excelsis Deo!
Deposuit ponentes
Esurientes implevit bonis
Virga Jesse
Suscepit Israel
Sicut locutus est
Gloria
Präludium über Puer natus in Bethlehem BWV 603
Puer natus in Bethlehem (Choral)
Dunedin Consort / Butt, John / Butt, John
22,90€
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