Pergolesi: Chamber Cantatas

On this CD:

1. Questo è il piano, cantata for solo voice & strings
Composed by Giovanni Pergolesi
Performed by Gloria Banditelli
Conducted by Fabio Maestri

2. Lontananza ("Dalsigre, ahi mia Dalsigre"), chamber cantata for soprano & ensemble, Op. 2/1
Composed by Giovanni Pergolesi
Performed by Susanna Rigacci
Conducted by Fabio Maestri

3. Nigella, ah mia Nigella; L'addio ("Luce degli occhi miei"), chamber cantata for soprano & ensemble, Op. 2/2
Composed by Giovanni Pergolesi
Performed by Gloria Banditelli
Conducted by Fabio Maestri

4. Segreto tormento ("Chi non ode e chi non vede"), chamber cantata for soprano & ensemble, Op. 2/3
Composed by Giovanni Pergolesi
Performed by Susanna Rigacci
Conducted by Fabio Maestri

5. Orfeo ("Nel chiuso centro"), chamber cantata for soprano & ensemble, Op. 2/4
Composed by Giovanni Pergolesi
Performed by Susanna Rigacci
Conducted by Fabio Maestri

Tracks:

Questo E Il Pno: Cant: Questo E Il Pno (Aria: Largo) - Gloria Banditelli
Questo E Il Pno: Cant: Oh Dolce Tempo (Recitativo, Recitativo Accompagnato) - Gloria Banditelli
Questo E Il Pno: Cant: Se Nel Dir Son Menzogniero (Aria: Presto, E Spiritoso) - Gloria Banditelli
Quattro Cant Da Camera: Cant I: Dalsigre, Ahi! Mia Dalsigre: Dalsigre, Ahi! Mia Dalsigre... - Susanna Rigacci
Quattro Cant Da Camera: Cant I: Dite Ch'ogni momento (Aria: Andnate Ma Non Troppo) - Susanna Rigacci
Quattro Cant Da Camera: Cant I: Se Pieta Non Vi Muove (Recitativo) - Susanna Rigacci
Quattro Cant Da Camera: Cant I: Torni Volando (Aria: Allegro Anzi Presto - Largo) - Susanna Rigacci
Quattro Cant Da Camera: Cant II: Luce Degli Occhi Miei: Luce Degli Occhi Miei (Recitativo) - Gloria Banditelli
Quattro Cant Da Camera: Cant II: Ove Tu, Ben Mio, Non Sei (Aria: Andante Moderato - Andante) - Gloria Banditelli
Quattro Cant Da Camera: Cant II: Ma Se Pure Il Destino (Recitativo) - Gloria Banditelli
Quattro Cant Da Camera: Cant II: Contento Forse Vivre (Aria: Allegretto) - Gloria Banditelli
Quattro Cant Da Camera: Cant III: Chi Non Ode E Chi Non Vede: Chi Non Ode E Chi Non Vede (Aria: Temp - Susanna Rigacci
Quattro Cant Da Camera: Cant III: Di Costei Parlo (Recitativo) - Susanna Rigacci
Quattro Cant Da Camera: Cant III: Tu Dovresti, Amor Tiranno (Recitativo Accompagnato) - Susanna Rigacci
Quattro Cant Da Camera: Cant III: Cadro Contento (Aria: Presto - Larghetto) - Susanna Rigacci
Quattro Cant Da Camera: Cant IV: Nel Chiuso Centro: Nel Chiuso Centro (Recitativo Accompagnato) - Susanna Rigacci
Quattro Cant Da Camera: Cant IV: Euridice, E Dove Sei? (Aria: Amoroso) - Susanna Rigacci
Quattro Cant Da Camera: Cant IV: Si, Che Pieta Non V'e (Recitativo) - Susanna Rigacci
Quattro Cant Da Camera: Cant IV: O D'Euridice N'andro Fastoso (Aria: Presto) - Susanna Rigacci

Bach 2000 Light (Without Sacred Cantatas)

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Bach 2000 Light (Without Sacred Cantatas)
Various Conductors , Various Performers , and Various Ensembles
Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Minuets | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music

Trios | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

Canons | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music

Fantasies | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music

Fugues | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music

Inventions | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music

Preludes | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music

Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music

Toccatas | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music

Scherzo | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music

Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Sacred & Religious | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Oratorios | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Cantatas | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Caprices | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Magnificats | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Masses | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Motets | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Oratorios | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Passions | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Psalms | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Classical | Box Sets | Stores | Music
ASIN: B00001IV8C
Release Date: 1999-09-21

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The Bach renaissance--which began in earnest in the early 19th century thanks to the efforts of Felix Mendelssohn and others--inspired an endeavor of far-reaching significance. It led to the founding of the Bach Society in 1850, with the goal of gathering and publishing the composer's complete works, and thus set into motion one of the great projects of musical scholarship. That effort has continued and been refined throughout the 20th century, ultimately influencing not only our perception of how to perform early music but fundamental ideas of musical history, evolution, and reception as well.

Teldec's mammoth Bach 2000 box set represents a kind of culmination of that original attempt to come to terms with Johann Sebastian Bach's unparalleled legacy. This set brings together performances recorded over the last several decades--a small percentage of the recordings are previously unreleased--of all the extant works determined by modern scholarship to be authentic. There are also some pieces the authorship of which is still in question and a few now deemed "inauthentic" but familiarly associated with the composer. Bach was a prodigious reviser of his compositions, and alternate versions of a particular work have been included "where the changes seemed sufficiently important," such as the glorious Magnificat. No doubt manuscripts will continue to be unearthed here and there in various archives (Bach 2000 contains, for example, the "Neumeister chorales," which were rediscovered in 1984), but the set does not represent the many fragments of music that consist of just a few bars; however, there are some reconstructions of lost concertos (such as one for three violins reconstructed by Christopher Hogwood from an extant concerto for harpsichords).

Of course a truly comprehensive recorded edition of every note Bach wrote remains a utopian impossibility--about one-third of his cantatas, for example, have not survived. Even so, the dimensions of Bach 2000 are staggering. With its 12 boxes comprising 153 CDs, the set can be compressed into fewer boxes to save shelf space yet is still about ten times as long as the Ring cycle. (It should be noted that the packaging--using thin cardboard sleeves for the CDs--is distinctively unattractive.) That adds up to just under 160 hours of music--but a lifetime of discovery. Each box (grouped according to genre) contains a booklet with excellent notes on individual works and--for all the choral works--texts and translations. Tracking indexes are useful and thorough. Also included is a profusely illustrated hardbound volume of 24 Inventions, in which journalist Wolfgang Sandberger uses the composer's biography as a peg for some enigmatic and fascinating musings on the meaning of Bach today.

The presiding philosophy behind this project and its approach to musical interpretation can be largely ascribed to Nikolaus Harnoncourt, a true musical pioneer and galvanizing force of the "period performance" movement. Harnoncourt's epoch-making recordings of the sacred cantatas (using, for instance, boy sopranos and choristers according to the practice in Bach's time) with the Concentus musicus Wien and colleague Gustav Leonhardt comprise the first four volumes here (those who already own them can turn to the Bach 2000 Light edition, which contains everything sans the cantatas). These recordings--which were not remastered for this set--have long been controversial and are notably uneven, embracing some magnificent accounts as well as others that lack fire and seem clearly underrehearsed. But Harnoncourt is one of the most fascinating conductors of our era, and his interpretations amply bear out his assertion: "I have never felt that Bach worked in a routine manner, that he repeated himself in his works." Harnoncourt--who has articulated many of his ideas in his book The Musical Dialogue--displays his gifts as a cellist in a remarkably probing performance of the Cello Suites (originally recorded in 1965) and in his concertizing for a number of chamber works. For\ the St. Matthew Passion, you get Harnoncourt's groundbreaking earlier account from 1970, while his 1986 recording of the sublime B Minor Mass is also represented here (the St. John Passion included is Harnoncourt's 1995 acount).

Other artists included are colleague Gustav Leonhardt, whose thoughtful if occasionally dry harpsichord artistry is heard in the Goldberg Variations as well as in the concertos and chamber music. The harpsichord is in fact used throughout in preference to piano for the keyboard works. Ton Koopman (himself the conductor of an ongoing complete cantata series and of the Easter Oratorio included here) performs the organ works, including some newly recorded offerings, while Il Giardino Armonico's well-known high-energy account represents the Brandenburg Concertos. Violinist Thomas Zehetmair is exceptionally compelling in the unaccompanied sonatas and partitas, and the Concentus musicus Wien--again under Harnoncourt--perform a superb Musical Offering that richly repays frequent listening.

The result of Bach 2000 as a whole is an aptly encyclopedic grappling with the infinite legacy of this most compendious of composers, whose works are on one level a summation of all the styles available to him. Bach was once thought to represent a "terminal point" (to use Albert Schweitzer's famous formulation), the end of an era; today he is at least equally recognized as a fertile source of inspiration for composers since. To be sure, individual recordings of particular works will be found to be preferable, and it would be misguided to consider Bach 2000 any kind of "final" or "definitive" word. Instead, it's an indispensable starting point that represents a monumental achievement for our own contemporary understanding of Bach. --Thomas May --This text refers to the complete edition of this title

Album Description

Volume 1, 11 Discs
Secular Cantatas App. Sacred Cantatas; 11 CDs; Koopman, Harnoncourt, Koopman, Goebel and others

Volume 2, 14 Discs
The Sacred Vocal Works Masses,Magnificat, Passions, Oratorios; 14 CDs; Harnoncourt, Koopman, Corboz and others

Volume 3, 7 Discs
The Motets, Chorales & Songs Kirnberger Chorales,Schemelli Songs, Quodlibet

Volume 4, 16 Discs
The Organ Works; 16 CDs; Ton Koopman

Volume 5, 11 Discs
The Keyboard Works (I) The Well-Tempered Clavier, English & French Suites, Partitas etc; 11 CDs; Curtis, Ross, Wilson, Ruzickova

Volume 6, 11 Discs
The Keyboard Works (II) Goldberg Variations, Toccatas, Fugues, Italian Concerto, etc; 11 CDs; Staier, Barchi, Leonhardt, von Asperen, Baumont, and others

Volume 7, 13 Discs
The Chamber Music Violin Sonatas & Partitas, Flute Sonatas, Works for Lute, Art of Fugue, Musical Offering, etc; 13 CDs; Harnoncourt, Pianca, Tachezi, Brggen, Zehetmair, and others