This double album assembles two oratorios and three cantatas for the feasts of easter and ascension. This osteroratorium easter oratorio was first performed on easter sunday in 1725. Emmanuel music is a bostonbased ensemble of singers and instrumentalists founded in 1970 by craig smith to perform the complete sacred cantatas of j. Himmelfahrtsoratorium, philippe herreweghe choir of the age of. Osteroratorium bwv 249, 6 edition bachakademie vol. Herreweghe bach cantatas series showing 1 10 of 14 results. I only had heard his masses, passions, and the easter oratorio before.
Easter oratorio bwv 249 ascension oratorio bwv 11 genere. Bach sinfonia, oratorio bwv 249 philippe herreweghe youtube bach easter oratorio, bwv 249 gardiner duration. The material posted here if ed must be deleted in 24 hours. Whether its an iconic work like the toccata and fugue in d minor or a rarely heard but emotionally riveting church cantata, bach s music is a touchstone, returning listeners to a foundation on which so much subsequent music has been built. Bach barbara schlick, kai wessel, james taylor, peter kooy, collegium vocale, philippe herreweghe. Johann sebastian bach 16851750 easter and ascension oratorios bwv 249 bwv 11 masaaki suzuki cover dati album bach titolo. I am posting this to both lists, since it covers both topics. Easter oratorio bwv 249 osteroratorium herreweghe u7. Philippe herreweghe conducts bachs christmas oratorio. Bach s osteroratorium and the kantate bwv10 in 1968. Bach has always had a prominent place on radio airwaves in boston.
Its hard to decide when all factors conspire together to elevate bach s easter and ascension oratorios to the same level of recognition of their more famous cousin, the christmas oratorio. Whereas the shorter easter and ascension oratorios are for specific occasions, this. This is the third work for which bach employed the term oratorioum, the other two being the christmas oratorio and the ascension oratorio. Bach easter oratorio and easter cantata fritz werner. Easter oratorio bwv 249 come, hurry and run, you swift feet. Appreciating the evangelists kaleidoscopic role allows bachs. Gardiners previous bwv106 was released on one of the dg archiv cantata pilgrimage recordings 4635812, but it was recorded 10 years earlier at st. There are four extant works by johan sebastian bach for the feast of the ascension, part of the liturgical cycle for easter. Johann sebastian bach osteroratorium bwv 249, ddur easter oratorio 1 april 1725 philippe herreweghe conducts collegium vocale. First of all considering that this recording was done back in the late 60s the sound quality is surprisingly and it verily feels as if one is present as it is. Christmas oratorio by philippe herreweghe collegium vocale on amazon music. Bach easter oratorio bwv 249 osteroratorium philippe. Christmas oratorio weihnachts oratorium by johann sebastian bach, john eliot gardiner, et al. Johannespassion bwv 245 tolzer knabenchor, direction.
In modern times, we tend to think of an oratorio as a sort of sacred. Nikolaus harnoncourt kurt equiluz, tenor evangelist robert holl, bass jesus. The easter oratorio is a reworking by bach of cantata bwv 249a written for the birthday of the duke of saxony, and reworked again as bwv 249b for the birthday of the governor of leipzig. What a start bach provides to his celebration of the resurrection. Johann sebastian bach osteroratorium bwv 249, ddur easter oratorio 1 april 1725 philippe herreweghe conducts collegium vocale gent agnes mellon soprano, andreas scholl alto, mark padmore. Lobet gott in seinen reichen bwv 11, known as the ascension oratorio. Actually, these recordings are very much of a piece with suzukis cantata discs. Bach 333 is released worldwide on october 26th in two language versions english and german. The two oratorios are really large cantatas, with their. If youve already come across masaaki suzuki and his bach collegium of.
This largescale cantata was first heard in leipzig at easter in 1725. Come, hasten and run easter oratorio by richard stokes. Cantata, bwv 10 is a recording of karl munchinger leading the stuttgarter kammerorchester as they play j. Intended for the second day of easter and also reworked from an original secular cantata, it most likely was performed as an easter work the same year 1735 as the oratorio. Emmanuel music continues to perform cycles of largescale and chamber works by bach, handel, mozart, schubert, brahms, debussy, haydn, schoenberg, weill, wolf, medelssohn, and schumann under artistic director. In composing his easter oratorio, bach drew heavily on a nowlost cantata entitled entfliehet, verschwindet, entweichet, ihr sorgen, which he had written to mark the birthday of duke christian of saxeweisenfels, on february 23, 1725. It was a hastilyarranged parody of a secular cantata written in the same year. In this 1993 recording, belgian conductor philippe herreweghe. He had composed an easter oratorio already in 1725.
Bach had composed his christmas oratorio, based on the gospels of luke and matthew, in 1734. Gerhard schmidtgaden concentus musicus wien, conductor. Bach sinfonia, oratorio bwv 249 philippe herreweghe. Little over a month afterwards the work was given again, but this time with a revised text supplied by picander, and with new recitatives. Three are cantatas belonging to the cantata cycles composed in 17231724 bwv37, 17241725 bwv128, and 17251726 bwv43. Find recording details and track inforamtion for easter oratorio osteroratorium. Conductor masaaki suzuki and the japan bach collegium, japans leading historicalinstrument ensemble, here take a break from a long series of cantata recordings to present bach s easter oratorio and ascension oratorio.
Nevertheless circumstantial evidence seems to point strongly toward the local poet, christian friedrich henrici his penname was picander 17001764 who had just begun his collaboration with bach in february, 1725. Bach s beloved christmas oratorio at brussels palais des beauxarts in 2012. Osteroratorium philippe herreweghe, collegium vocale on allmusic 1995. Bach easter oratorio bwv 249 osteroratorium philippe herreweghe. The words of these two secular version are by picander, and the words of this sacred version are probably by picander also. The recording conducted by philippe herreweghe and collegium vocale on harmonia mundi 1994. Bach, j s easter oratorio bwv249, cd this page lists all recordings of easter oratorio bwv249 by johann sebastian bach 16851750. I bought the herreweghe box of the most beautiful cantatas today. Soprano dorothee mields, countertenor damien guillon, tenor thomas hobbs, basspeter kooij join the celebrated collegium vocale ghent under their music director and founder, belgian conductor philippe herreweghe, for a performance of j. Order from your preferred classical music cd store.
None of these works is dramatically dissimilar to what bach calls in other situations cantata, except that the christmas oratorio is actually a set of six distinct cantatas. Bach s christmas oratorio is the famous one, of course, but there are two others for easter and ascension. But starting on the musical side, what we have here is the work of a superb group, led by the brisk tempos of conductor matthew halls, but perfectly. Easter oratorio, but also several cantatas and an ascension oratorio, among other. Johann sebastian bach, phillippe herreweghe, barbara schlick, kai wessel, james taylor, peter kooy, collegium vocale bach edition. Get a free download from this performance in our my daily bach podcast. Easter oratorio osteroratorium bwv 249 cantate bmv 66 erfreut euch, ihr herzen music. The opening chorus of the cantata bwv 66 is one of the legion of wonders among bach s choral movements. Mary daughter of james soprano, mary magdalene alto, peter tenor, john bass biblical quotations in green font, chorales. Soon after gardiner, philippe herreweghe followed in 1989 with a more. Bach herreweghe osteroratorium 416 hz grain apps blog. Jeg returns to filling in the gaps in his bach catalogue with this album, which includes the funeral cantata bwv106 and the easter oratorio.
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