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    Gustav Leonhardt, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment - Johann Sebastian Bach: Secular Cantatas BWV 211 & 213 (1995)

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    Gustav Leonhardt, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment - Johann Sebastian Bach: Secular Cantatas BWV 211 & 213 (1995)

    Gustav Leonhardt, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment - Johann Sebastian Bach: Secular Cantatas BWV 211 'Coffee' & 213 'Hercules auf dem Scheidewege' (1995)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 367 Mb | Total time: 73: 51 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Philips | # 442 779-2 | Recorded: 1994

    Bach’s music society, the Collegium Musicum of Leipzig (founded 1702, by none other than G.P.Telemann), often met for coffee at the coffee house of Gottfried Zimmermann, also frequently attended by professional musicians and university students. Ah, some things in this world don’t change at all. The drinking was naturally accompanied with music. These were divided between small-scale pieces such as harpsichord concertos and chamber pieces, and large-scale open-air festive cantatas held outside the house. Sounds kinda more engaging than piped radio music.

    Christoph Spering - Mozart arrangement of Handel's: Ode for St. Cecilia's Day; Acis and Galatea (1991)

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    Christoph Spering - Mozart arrangement of Handel's: Ode for St. Cecilia's Day; Acis and Galatea (1991)

    Christoph Spering, Das Neue Orchester, Chorus Musicus Köln - Mozart arrangement of Handel's: Ode for St. Cecilia's Day; Acis and Galatea (1991)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 625 Mb | Total time: 73:46+77:25 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Opus 111 | OPS 45-9109/10 | Recorded: 1991

    It is not always easy to avoid writing a shade smugly about the arrangements Mozart made of choral works by Handel. Nowadays, increasingly, we try to listen to such works as Acis and Galatea and the Cecilian Ode in the form in which Handel composed them; to hear them through the prism of the classical musical consciousness is disconcerting. For once we feel that we know better than Mozart. Well, so we do, about Handel and the way he makes the best effect (at least on us); but a different kind of historical awareness is needed here, one that puts us into the frame of mind of late eighteenth-century Vienna and its perception of Handel.

    Hermann Max, Das Kleine Konzert, Rheinische Kantorei - Händel arr. Mozart: Der Messias KV 572 (2014)

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    Hermann Max, Das Kleine Konzert, Rheinische Kantorei - Händel arr. Mozart: Der Messias KV 572 (2014)

    Hermann Max, Das Kleine Konzert, Rheinische Kantorei - Händel arr. Mozart: Der Messias KV 572 (2014)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 543 Mb | Total time: 122:33 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Warner Classics | 5054196055523 | Recorded: 1991

    In 1789 Mozart arranged George Frideric Handel's Messiah on behalf of a group of Viennese noblemen.He abridged the work in an effort to tauten the drama, transposed arias to suit his singers' abilities and he subjected it to a fundamental re-orchestration to adapt the sound of the work to the musical taste of his time. lt was not until the 20th century that the historical and musical value of Mozart's Messiah arrangement was reappraised. Mozart's interpretation of Handel's Counterpoint and his synthesis of Baroque and Classical stylistic elements give the work a compelling new sound.

    Sigiswald Kuijken, La Petite Bande - Johann Sebastian Bach: Magnificat, Cantata BWV 21 (1989)

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    Sigiswald Kuijken, La Petite Bande - Johann Sebastian Bach: Magnificat, Cantata BWV 21 (1989)

    Sigiswald Kuijken, La Petite Bande - Johann Sebastian Bach: Magnificat, Cantata BWV 21 (1989)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 328 Mb | Total time: 72:37 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Virgin Classics | # 0777 7595282 7 | Recorded: 1988

    The two works performed here are two that have never gone out of fashion, even in the days before the Bach revival, in the darkest times for his reputation, these works were recognized as masterworks and have never been out of the repertoire. La petite bande was founded by Sigiswald Kuijken in 1972. It is a period instruments ensemble which has come to be recognized as having the highest standard of performance in Bach and other composers as well.

    Philippe Herreweghe, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment - C.P.E. Bach: Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu (1992)

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    Philippe Herreweghe, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment - C.P.E. Bach: Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu (1992)

    Philippe Herreweghe, Collegium Vocale, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment - C.P.E. Bach: Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu Wq 240 (1992)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 316 Mb | Total time: 75:45 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Virgin Classics | # VC 7 91498 2 | Recorded: 1992

    Although frequently classified as an oratorio, C. P. E. Bach's Auferstehung und Himmeelfahrt Jesu is really a cantata. There are no named dramatis personae and it is evident from Emanuel Bach's own comments that he intended the work to have a partly didactic function. He also considered it, in his own words as "pre-eminent among all my vocal works in expression and in the composition". The author of the text was Karl Wilhelm Ramler, an important poet of the German Enlightenment whose texts had earlier attracted Telemann. Ramler and Bach engaged in a close collaboration over the Auferstehung and between Bach's setting of it in 1774 and the eventual publication by Breitkopf in 1787, composer and poet entered into a lively correspondence concerning the details and shape of the cantata. The first performance took place in Hamburg in 1778 when it was warmly received. Many subsequent performances were given culminating in three directed by Mozart in Vienna.

    Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir - Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 19 [3CDs] (2005)

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    Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir - Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 19 [3CDs] (2005)

    Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir - Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 19 [3CDs] (2005)
    EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 820 Mb | Total time: 03:01:10 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Challenge Classics | # CC 72219 | Recorded: 1999-2003

    The cantatas of volume 19 can be relegated to three groups: Four works (BWV 72, 88, 129 and 193) belong to the third Leipzig series, lasting from 1725 to 1727; five (BWV 145, 159, 171, 174 and 188) belong to the group known as the Picander cycle of 1728-29, which was not completed or has not survived complete; two works (BWV 51 and 117) belong to the period after 1730, in which Bach composed new church cantatas only sporadically.

    Hermann Max, Das Kleine Konzert, Rheinische Kantorei - Johann Ernst Bach: Passionsoratorium (1990)

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    Hermann Max, Das Kleine Konzert, Rheinische Kantorei - Johann Ernst Bach: Passionsoratorium (1990)

    Hermann Max, Das Kleine Konzert, Rheinische Kantorei - Johann Ernst Bach: Passionsoratorium (1990)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 627 Mb | Total time: 123:05 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Capriccio | # 10 310/11 | Recorded: 1989

    Today it is the Passions of J.S Bach which are most commonly known. The Passion Oratorio by J.S Bach’s nephew, godson and pupil Johann Ernst Bach is lesser known. On this Capriccio re-release his Passion Oratorio is performed alongside an Ode on the 77th Psalm for tenor, chorus and orchestra and a Motet for solo voices, four-part chorus, strings and continuo.

    Frieder Bernius, Musica Fiata Köln - Heinrich Schütz: Psalmen Davids (1992)

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    Frieder Bernius, Musica Fiata Köln - Heinrich Schütz: Psalmen Davids (1992)

    Frieder Bernius, Musica Fiata Köln - Heinrich Schütz: Psalmen Davids (1992)
    EAC| FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 594 Mb | Total time: 59:55+60:10 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # S2K 48 042 | Recorded: 1991

    The Psalms of David were Schütz' first published collection 1619 after becoming the Choirmaster of the Duke of Saxony. Composed over a number of years, they blend Venetian inspired polychorality with the German of Luther's Bible translation. Throughout, particular attention is evident in the wordsetting, the meaning of the text as exemplified by the music was a driving force for Schütz throughout his creative life. Texts employed are mainly psalms or psalmselections, with a few other biblical excerpts.

    Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir - Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 18 [3CDs] (2005)

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    Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir - Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 18 [3CDs] (2005)

    Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir - Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 18 [3CDs] (2005)
    EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 846 Mb | Total time: 03:14:02 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Challenge Classics | # CC 72218 | Recorded: 2001-2003

    The 18th set of Bach's cantatas contains exclusively works of the third yearly cycle from Leipzig. Unlike the first two Leipzig yearly cycles, this one extends over a longer period: from June 1725 until 1727. The works in this set belong essentially to the years 1725-26 and are in some cases chronologically contiguous (BWV 187 and 45; BWV 98, 55, 52), with the result that the original sequence can be easily grasped.

    Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir - Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 17 [3CDs] (2004)

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    Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir - Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 17 [3CDs] (2004)

    Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir - Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 17 [3CDs] (2004)
    EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 827 Mb | Total time: 03:09:53 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Challenge Classics | # CC 72217 | Recorded: 2001-2003

    Volume 17 in the Bach cantata series contains exclusively works from the third yearly cycle of cantatas from Leipzig, which, unlike the previous two Leipzig cycles, extends over a longer period of time, from June 1725 until 1727. The cantatas in this volume can be divided into three chronologically distinct groups: December-January 1725-26 (BWV 57, 32), September-October 1726 (BWV 35, 17, 19, 169 and 56) and January-February 1727 (BWV 58 and 84).

    Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir - Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 16 [3CDs] (2004)

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    Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir - Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 16 [3CDs] (2004)

    Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir - Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 16 [3CDs] (2004)
    EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 833 Mb | Total time: 03:13:10 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Challenge Classics | # CC 72216 | Recorded: 2002, 2003

    The cantatas in this sixteenth volume are all from the third cycle of Bach's Leipzig cantatas. This yearly cycle began on the First Sunday after Trinity (3 June) 1725 and extended over a period of about three years - unlike the two preceding cycles of 1723-24 and 1724-25. Bach's rhythm of composition had slowed down markedly in the middle of 1725. It is also significant that from February to September 1726 he performed a long series of cantatas by his cousin Johann Ludwig Bach (1677-1731), Kapellmeister at the ducal court of Meiningen. But even if the proportion of original compositions declined markedly, these include a series of particularly accomplished and extended works, such as Cantatas BWV 43, 39, 170 and 102. Musically, Bach's third yearly cycle of cantatas is distinguishable by the fact that they do not begin with large-scale instrumental symphonies, nor do they have unusually extended or richly scored opening movements.

    Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir - Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 15 [3CDs] (2004)

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    Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir - Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 15 [3CDs] (2004)

    Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir - Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 15 [3CDs] (2004)
    EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 884 Mb | Total time: 03:27:42 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Challenge Classics | # CC72215 | Recorded: 2001, 2002

    The cantatas in this fifteenth volume belong mostly to the transitional period between the second and the third yearly cycle of cantatas, i.e. the spring of 1725. BWV 3 is part of the series of chorale cantatas that give the second yearly cycle its special character, whereas BWV 28, 110, 146 and 168 already belong to the third yearly cycle. However, cantatas BWV 85, 87, 108, 128, 175, 176 and 183, mostly compositions on texts by Mariane von Ziegler, bring the second yearly cycle to its conclusion. Bach had taken up his position as Kantor of St Thomas's, Leipzig, at the end of May 1723 and so begun his regular performances of cantatas on the First Sunday after Trinity - in other words, in the middle of the church year.

    Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir - Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 14 [3CDs] (2004)

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    Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir - Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 14 [3CDs] (2004)

    Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir - Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 14 [3CDs] (2004)
    EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 892 Gb | Total time: 03:25:31 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Challenge Classics | # CC 72214 | Recorded: 2000, 2001

    The cantatas in this fourteenth series fall into four unequal groups: BWV 26, 123,125 and 178 form part of the second yearly cycle of Leipzig church cantatas, which was abruptly broken off in March 1725.The chorale cantatas - based on strophes of church Lieder or church Lieder paraphrased into recitatives and arias - lent the cycle its distinct character. We do not know any tangible reason for the abrupt break-off, but we may assume that it is connected to the death of the author of Bach's texts, Andreas Stübel, deputy headmaster of the Thomasschule, who is presumed to have died on 31 January 1725.For evidently the composer had at his disposal only texts up to the Marian Feast of the Annunciation, 25 March 1725 (BWV 1).While the texts for BWV 6 and 42 are the work of an unknown poet, in Cantatas BWV 74,68 and 103 Bach set texts by the Leipzig poet Mariane von Ziegler, who evidently filled the gap left by the poet of the chorale cantatas. Finally, BWV 1045 is a sinfonia of a cantata dating from the mid-1740s, the other movements of which have not survived.

    Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir - Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 12 [3CDs] (2001)

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    Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir - Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 12 [3CDs] (2001)

    Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir - Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 12 [3CDs] (2001)
    EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 855 Mb | Total time: 03:21:13 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Erato | # 8573-85842-2 | Recorded: 2000

    The cantatas in this volume all date from Johann Sebastian Bach's second year of office as Thomaskantor in Leipzig. The series of chorale cantatas, which breaks off in early 1725, forms an almost complete yearly cycle which derives an exceptional unity of style and content from its debt to established Lutheran hymnody. Almost all the cantatas contain the first and last verse of a hymn, the other verses being paraphrased in recitatives and arias. Practically any selection of the chorale cantatas will display the unusually rich variety of form and colour that is one of their most distinctive features.

    Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir - Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 11 [3CDs] (2001)

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    Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir - Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 11 [3CDs] (2001)

    Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir - Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 11 [3CDs] (2001)
    EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 825 Mb | Total time: 03:11:36 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Erato | # 8573-80215-2 | Recorded: 1999

    Previously begun on Erato, Koopman's cantata cycle was taken over and completed in 2007 on Challenge Classics. It now looks set to surpass the famous Leonhardt-Harnoncourt set on Teldec (and indeed most of his other competitors). Koopman favours an intimate approach to the choruses - namely one voice to a part. Also, he opts for females soloists rather than boys, as would have been the case in Bach's day, and he favours mixed rather than solely male choirs. For many this will be a plus point, and it is good news for fans of Barbara Schlick. He goes for slightly higher than normal pitch - a semi-tone above present day pitch, which, as Christopher Wolff's notes point out, is what Bach used in Mühlhausen and Weimar, brightening the sonority quite a lot. The singing in virtually all the cantatas is pretty impressive and the instrumental playing is of a very high order.