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Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe - J.S. Bach: Himmelfahrts-Oratorium, BWV 11 (Remastered) (1993/2023) [24/96]

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Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe - J.S. Bach: Himmelfahrts-Oratorium, BWV 11 (Remastered) (1993/2023) [24/96]

Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe - J.S. Bach: Himmelfahrts-Oratorium, BWV 11 (Remastered) (1993/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 67:00 minutes | 1,12 GB
Classical, Sacred, Oratorio | Label: harmonia mundi, Official Digital Download

Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen (Laud to God in all his kingdoms), BWV 11,[a] known as the Ascension Oratorio (Himmelfahrtsoratorium), is an oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach, marked by him as Oratorium In Festo Ascensionis Xsti (Oratorio for the feast of the Ascension of Christ), composed for the service for Ascension and probably first performed on 15 May 1738.

Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe - Bach: Mit Fried und Freud (Remastered) (1998/2023) [Digital Download 24/96]]

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Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe - Bach: Mit Fried und Freud (Remastered) (1998/2023) [Digital Download 24/96]]

Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe - Bach: Mit Fried und Freud (Remastered) (1998/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 58:26 minutes | 1,02 GB
Classical, Sacred, Vocal | Label: harmonia mundi, Official Digital Download

The theme of death and dying was one of the favourite themes ofBach and his contemporaries in their cantatas – that “musical theology”which was held in such high esteem in deeply Lutheran Northern Germany.Composed between 1723 and 1725, the three cantatas on this record treatthe subject from different angles: the expectation of a “marvellousdawn” (BWV 8), the final departure in peace and joy (BWV 125), and thevanity of earthly existence (BWV 138). There is “no consolation onearth”, but only in heaven – what other composer, what other artistsucceeded in expressing this consolation with such depth, or with suchobviousness as Bach?

Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe - J.S. Bach: Secular Cantatas (Remastered) (2004/2023) [Digital Download 24/96]

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Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe - J.S. Bach: Secular Cantatas (Remastered) (2004/2023) [Digital Download 24/96]

Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe - J.S. Bach: Secular Cantatas (Remastered) (2004/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 56:08 minutes | 992 MB
Classical, Vocal | Label: harmonia mundi, Official Digital Download

"Sound, ye drums! Ring out, ye trumpets!" In his Leipzig years, Bach liked to remind people that he was not only Kantor of St Thomas’s, but also the city’s director of music. It was in this capacity that he wrote these sumptuous secular cantatas, in honour respectively of the university professor Kortte (BWV 207, 1726) and of Queen Maria Josepha (BWV 214, 1733). Allegorical figures such as Industry, Fortune, Honour and Gratitude take it in turns to sing of the learning and the merits of the recipients, borrowing material from one of the Brandenburg Concertos or ‘quoting’ some of the finest music from the Christmas Oratorio, not yet composed…

Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe - Bach: Christus, der ist mein Leben - Sacred Cantatas (Remast.) (2006/2023) [24/96]

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Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe - Bach: Christus, der ist mein Leben - Sacred Cantatas (Remast.) (2006/2023) [24/96]

Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe - Bach: Christus, der ist mein Leben - Sacred Cantatas (Remastered) (2006/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 62:36 minutes | 1,05 GB
Classical, Sacred, Vocal | Label: harmonia mundi, Official Digital Download

Although Bach had dreamt of establishing a ‘well-regulated church music’ since his early days, it was only between 1723 and 1750 that he finally had the chance to do so, as Kantor and Director Musices in Leipzig. Here he invented the ‘modern’ cantata, combining chorales and traditional biblical texts with arias and recitatives on freely composed texts. The four cantatas recorded by Philippe Herreweghe offer a magisterial demonstration of the transition from cantatas initially judged ‘too theatrical’ to a perfectly achieved form – as in the cantata BWV 84, among the very last to be written.

Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe - J.S. Bach: Leipzig Cantatas (Remastered) (2001/2023) [Digital Download 24/48]

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Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe - J.S. Bach: Leipzig Cantatas (Remastered) (2001/2023) [Digital Download 24/48]

Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe - J.S. Bach: Leipzig Cantatas (Remastered) (2001/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 55:25 minutes | 588 MB
Classical, Sacred, Vocal | Label: harmonia mundi, Official Digital Download

The Christmas cantatas have in common the use of a church chorale as their conceptual starting point, and their intimate performing forces. In Bach's output they constitute a kind of meditation on the meaning of the feast of Christmas.

La Chapelle Royale, Philippe Herreweghe & Peter Kooy - J.S. Bach: Cantatas for Bass (Remastered) (1991/2023) [24/48]

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La Chapelle Royale, Philippe Herreweghe & Peter Kooy - J.S. Bach: Cantatas for Bass (Remastered) (1991/2023) [24/48]

La Chapelle Royale, Philippe Herreweghe & Peter Kooy - J.S. Bach: Cantatas for Bass (Remastered) (1991/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 52:19 minutes | 575 MB
Classical, Sacred, Vocal | Label: harmonia mundi, Official Digital Download

In 1991, Philippe Herreweghe and La Chapelle Royale recorded three Bach cantatas on the themes of suffering and death - death viewed as a kindly comforter. The soloist was the prodigious bass Peter Kooy, a long-standing partner of the ensemble and a key figure in it's magnificent survey of Bach's cantatas, motets and Passions.

Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe - J.S. Bach: Weinen, Klagen... (Remastered) (2003/2023) [Digital Download 24/48]

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Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe - J.S. Bach: Weinen, Klagen... (Remastered) (2003/2023) [Digital Download 24/48]

Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe - J.S. Bach: Weinen, Klagen… (Remastered) (2005/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 68:58 minutes | 728 MB
Classical, Sacred, Vocal | Label: harmonia mundi, Official Digital Download

Sorrow, desolation and comfort: In 1723 and 1724, the congregation of the Lutheran parish church of St Thomas’s in Leipzig had ample opportunity to discover, week after week, a little more of the talent of their new Kantor, a certain Johann Sebastian Bach. Among the ‘obligatory cantatas’ that were his weekly lot were the three presented on this album, which make use of the texts of Psalms 22 and 130 (the De profundis: ‘Out of the deep have I called unto thee’) or deal with the ‘Weeping, wailing, lamenting, fearing’ that are our everyday fare in this vale of tears. In fact this cantata BWV 12, which actually dates from considerably earlier in Bach’s career, gives a particularly doleful tone to a programme whose ultimate message will nonetheless bring succour to souls in torment…

Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe - J.S. Bach: Jesu, deine Passion (Remastered) (2007/2023) [Digital Download 24/48]

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Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe - J.S. Bach: Jesu, deine Passion (Remastered) (2007/2023) [Digital Download 24/48]

Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe - J.S. Bach: Jesu, deine Passion (Remastered) (2007/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 63:45 minutes | 663 MB
Classical, Sacred, Vocal | Label: harmonia mundi, Official Digital Download

Bach reserved some of his most elaborate cantatas for worship on the Sunday before the beginning of Lent – and it was for that very day that he composed the cantatas BWV 22 and 23 in 1723, as test pieces destined to gain him the post of Leipzig Kantor. The cantatas BWV 127 and 159 were written for the same Sunday in subsequent years.

Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe - J.S. Bach: Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, BWV 80 (Remastered) (2002/2023) [24/48]

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Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe - J.S. Bach: Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, BWV 80 (Remastered) (2002/2023) [24/48]

La Chapelle Royale, Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe - J.S. Bach: Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, BWV 80 (Remastered) (2002/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 52:18 minutes | 558 MB
Classical, Sacred, Vocal | Label: harmonia mundi, Official Digital Download

Christ lag in Todesbanden, BWV 4, Gott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild, BWV 79, and Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, BWV 80. Written at different moments in the composer’s life and based to a large extent on the works of Martin Luther, these cantatas reflect a marked taste for dramaturgy, vivid word painting and an invariably astonishing use of instruments and voices. Herreweghe and Collegium Vocale Gent give us an accomplished version of these masterpieces, confirming, if further proof were needed, their stature as ardent champions of Bach.

Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe - J.S. Bach: Cantatas for Trinity (Remastered) (2002/2023) [Digital Download 24/48]

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Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe - J.S. Bach: Cantatas for Trinity (Remastered) (2002/2023) [Digital Download 24/48]

Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe - J.S. Bach: Cantatas for Trinity (Remastered) (2002/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 53:18 minutes | 549 MB
Classical, Sacred, Vocal | Label: harmonia mundi, Official Digital Download

After his move to Leipzig in 1723, the years 1724 and 1725 were especially creative ones for the new Kantor of St Thomas’s. Bach had decided to write a complete cycle of chorale cantatas, thus producing a body of work that went far beyond the expectations of his employers. The target he had set himself now offered an unparalleled laboratory for musical experimentation. These three cantatas for the Sundays after Trinity, which begin the liturgical year, date from this period.

Andreas Scholl, Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe - J.S. Bach: Cantatas for Alto Solo (Remastered) (1997/2023) [24/48]

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Andreas Scholl, Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe - J.S. Bach: Cantatas for Alto Solo (Remastered) (1997/2023) [24/48]

Andreas Scholl, Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe - J.S. Bach: Cantatas for Alto Solo (Remastered) (1997/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 59:16 minutes | 625 MB
Classical, Sacred, Vocal | Label: harmonia mundi, Official Digital Download

According to German theological tradition, which Bach knew very well, the alto voice was the very symbol of the Holy Ghost. Bach's three solo cantatas for alto demand enormous vocal virtuosity. Their extraordinary musical variety embraces sublime consolatory lullabies, a faithful echo of an organ concerto and the dramatic qualities of an oratorio. Andreas Scholl is the featured soloist in this reissue, backed by Philippe Herreweghe and the Collegium Vocale Gent.

Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe - J.S. Bach: Advent Cantatas (Remastered) (1996/2023) [Digital Download 24/48]

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Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe - J.S. Bach: Advent Cantatas (Remastered) (1996/2023) [Digital Download 24/48]

Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe - J.S. Bach: Advent Cantatas (Remastered) (1996/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 62:45 minutes | 663 MB
Classical, Sacred, Vocal | Label: harmonia mundi, Official Digital Download

Waiting for the Lord…Surely one of the greatest gifts the Lutheran Church ever made to music was to have charged Bach with the duty of producing a cantata for every week of the year! He left us no fewer than three for the first Sunday in Advent alone, composed between 1714 (at Weimar) and 1724-31 (at Leipzig). They are inspired in very different ways by Luther's original chorale: it is as if all of baroque Germany is contained between the sobriety of BWV 61 and the ambitious frescoes of BWV 36 and 62…

Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe - J.S. Bach: Wir danken dir, Gott (Remastered) (1999/2023) [24/48]

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Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe - J.S. Bach: Wir danken dir, Gott (Remastered) (1999/2023) [24/48]

Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe - J.S. Bach: Wir danken dir, Gott (Remastered) (1999/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 64:37 minutes | 676 MB
Classical, Sacred, Vocal | Label: harmonia mundi, Official Digital Download

To the glory of God and the Burgomaster: Bach's appointment as director musices of the city of Leipzig in 1723 brought with it, among his other functions, the duty of providing an annual liturgical cantata specifically intended for performance during the ceremony of the opening of the session of the new Municipal Council. At least twelve such cantatas were written during the long years he spent in the pious town, of which no more than a third have survived intact. The almost martial accents of Preise, Jerusalem, den Herrn, the invocation of prosperity and blessing of Gott, man lobet dich in der Stille and the astonishing parodies of the third Partita for solo violin in Wir danken dir, Gott - the three cantatas on this recording - are all somewhat unabashed combinations of the glorification of God and municipal pride.

Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe - J.S. Bach: Christmas Cantatas (Remastered) (1995/2023) [24/48]

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Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe - J.S. Bach: Christmas Cantatas (Remastered) (1995/2023) [24/48]

Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe - J.S. Bach: Christmas Cantatas (Remastered) (1995/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 72:34 minutes | 639 MB
Classical, Sacred, Oratorio | Label: harmonia mundi, Official Digital Download

If there is one work that sheds light on all facets of festive music-making during the Christmas season, it is Johann Sebastian Bach’s Christmas Oratorio. This music transcends the ages and radiates throughout the world – starting in Leipzig, where the six-part cantata cycle was first heard in the two main churches of St. Nikolai and St. Thomas on the festive days between 25 December 1734 and 6 January 1735.

Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe - J.S. Bach: Oster-Oratorium, BWV 249 (Rmst) (1994/2023) [24/48]

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Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe - J.S. Bach: Oster-Oratorium, BWV 249 (Rmst) (1994/2023) [24/48]

Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe - J.S. Bach: Oster-Oratorium, BWV 249 (Remastered) (1994/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 72:34 minutes | 749 MB
Classical, Sacred, Oratorio | Label: harmonia mundi, Official Digital Download

This double album assembles two oratorios and three cantatas for the feasts of Easter and Ascension. Often overshadowed by the Christmas Oratorio, the two oratorios presented here rely on a form of dramaturgy absent from the cantatas; whether directly portraying the protagonists of the Passion of Christ (Easter Oratorio) or having the Evangelist narrate events, Bach draws on the music of earlier cantatas to produce two works whose beauty and coherence Philippe Herreweghe has brought out more convincingly than any other interpreter.