On this CD:
1. Chorale for 4 voices ("Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott"), BWV 302
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Sigurd Brauns, Katharina Maechler
2. Chorale for 4 voices ("Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott"), BWV 303
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Sigurd Brauns, Katharina Maechler
3. Chorale for 4 voices ("Eins ist Noth, ach Herr, dies Eine"), BWV 304
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Sigurd Brauns, Katharina Maechler
4. Chorale for 4 voices ("Erbarm dich mein, o Herre Gott"), BWV 305
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Sigurd Brauns, Katharina Maechler
5. Chorale for 4 voices ("Erstanden ist der heilig' Christ", from Surrexit Christus), BWV 306
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Sigurd Brauns, Katharina Maechler
6. Chorale for 4 voices ("Es ist gewisslich an der Zeit"), BWV307
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Sigurd Brauns, Katharina Maechler
7. Chorale for 4 voices ("Es spricht der unweisen Mund"), BWV 308
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Sigurd Brauns, Katharina Maechler
8. Chorale for 4 voices ("Es stehn vor Gottes Throne"), BWV 309
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Sigurd Brauns, Katharina Maechler
9. Chorale for 4 voices ("Es wird schier der letzte Tag harkommen"), BWV 310
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Sigurd Brauns, Katharina Maechler
10. Chorale for 4 voices ("Es woll' uns Gott genädig sein"), BWV 311
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Sigurd Brauns, Katharina Maechler
11. Chorale for 4 voices ("Es woll' uns Gott genädig sein"), BWV 312
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Sigurd Brauns, Katharina Maechler
12. Chorale for 4 voices ("Für Freuden lasst uns springen"), BWV 313
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Sigurd Brauns, Katharina Maechler
13. Chorale for 4 voices ("Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ"), BWV 314
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Sigurd Brauns, Katharina Maechler
14. Chorale for 4 voices ("Gib dich zufrieden und sei stille"), BWV 315
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Sigurd Brauns, Katharina Maechler
15. Chorale for 4 voices ("Gott, der du selber bist das Licht"), BWV 316
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Sigurd Brauns, Katharina Maechler
16. Chorale for 4 voices ("Gott, der Vater wohn uns bei"), BWV 317
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Sigurd Brauns, Katharina Maechler
17. Chorale for 4 voices ("Gottes Sohn ist kommen"), BWV 318
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Sigurd Brauns, Katharina Maechler
18. Chorale for 4 voices ("Gott hat das Evangelium"), BWV 319
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Sigurd Brauns, Katharina Maechler
19. Chorale for 4 voices ("Gott lebet noch, Seele, was verzagst du doch"), BWV 320
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Sigurd Brauns, Katharina Maechler
20. Chorale ("Gottlob, es geht nunmehr zu Ende"), BWV 321
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Sigurd Brauns, Katharina Maechler
21. Chorale for 4 voices ("Gott sei gelobet und gebenedeiet"), BWV 322
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Sigurd Brauns, Katharina Maechler
22. Chorale for 4 voices ("Gott sei uns gnädig und barmherzig"), BWV 323
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Sigurd Brauns, Katharina Maechler
23. Chorale for 4 voices ("Meine Seel erhebt den Herren"), BWV 324
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Sigurd Brauns, Katharina Maechler
24. Chorale for 4 voices ("Heilig, heilig, heilig"), BWV 325
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Sigurd Brauns, Katharina Maechler
25. Chorale for 4 voices ("Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir"), BWV 326
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Sigurd Brauns, Katharina Maechler
26. Chorale for 4 voices ("Für deinen Thron tret ich hiemit"), BWV 327
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Sigurd Brauns, Katharina Maechler
27. Chorale for 4 voices ("Herr Gott, dich loben wir"), BWV 328
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Sigurd Brauns, Katharina Maechler
28. Chorale ("Herr, ich denk an jene Zeit"), BWV 329
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Sigurd Brauns, Katharina Maechler
29. Chorale for 4 voices ("Herr, ich habe missgehandelt"), BWV 330
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Sigurd Brauns, Katharina Maechler
30. Chorale for 4 voices ("Herr, ich habe missgehandelt"), BWV 331
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Sigurd Brauns, Katharina Maechler
31. Chorale for 4 voices ("Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend"), BWV 332
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Sigurd Brauns, Katharina Maechler
32. Chorale for 4 voices ("Herr Jesu Christ, du hast bereit'"), BWV 333
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Sigurd Brauns, Katharina Maechler
33. Chorale for 4 voices ("Herr Jesu Christ, du höchstes Gut"), BWV 334
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Sigurd Brauns, Katharina Maechler
34. Chorale for 4 voices ("Herr Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht"), BWV 335
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Sigurd Brauns, Katharina Maechler
35. Chorale for 4 voices ("Herr Jesu Christ, wah'r Mensch und Gott"), BWV 336
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Sigurd Brauns, Katharina Maechler
36. Chorale for 4 voices ("Herr, nun lass in Friede"), BWV 337
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Sigurd Brauns, Katharina Maechler
37. Chorale for 4 voices ("Herr, straf mich nicht in deinem Zorn"), BWV 338
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Sigurd Brauns, Katharina Maechler
38. Chorale for 4 voices ("Herr, wie du will't, so schick's mit mir"), BWV 339
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Sigurd Brauns, Katharina Maechler
39. Chorale for 4 voices ("Herr, wie du will't, so schick's mit mir"), BWV 339
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Sigurd Brauns, Katharina Maechler
40. Chorale for 4 voices ("Herzlich lieb hab ich dich, o Herr"), BWV 340
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Sigurd Brauns, Katharina Maechler
41. Chorale for 4 voices ("Heut ist, o Mensch, ein grosser Trauertag"), BWV 341
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Sigurd Brauns, Katharina Maechler
42. Chorale for 4 voices, ("Heut triumphiret Gottes Sohn"), BWV 342
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Sigurd Brauns, Katharina Maechler
Bach: Chorales, BWV 302-342, Music, Katharina Maechler, Johann Sebastian Bach, Sigurd Brauns, Choral, Chorale Setting, Classical, Classical Composers, Classical Music, Classical Vocals
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Bach: Chorales, BWV 302-342
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Bach 2000: The Complete Bach Edition (Includes Commemorative Book) (Box Set)
Nikolaus Harnoncourt , Robin Gritton , Giovanni Antonini , Gustav Leonhardt , Ton Koopman , Alice Harnoncourt , and Zehetmair, Thomas Manufacturer: Teldec ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Allemandes
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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
Album Description
Volume 1, 15 DiscsVolume 2, 15 Discs
Sacred Cantatas Nos. 48-52, 54-69, 69A, 70-99; 15 CDs; Harnoncourt/Leonhardt
Volume 3, 15 Discs
Sacred Cantatas Nos. 100-117, 119-140,143-149; 15 CDs; Harnoncourt/Leonhardt
Volume 4, 15 Discs
Sacred Cantatas BWV 150-159, 161-188, 192, 194-199; 15 CDs; Harnoncourt/Leonhardt
Volume 5, 11 Discs
Secular Cantatas App. Sacred Cantatas; 11 CDs; Koopman, Harnoncourt, Koopman, Goebel and others
Volume 6, 14 Discs
The Sacred Vocal Works Masses,Magnificat, Passions, Oratorios; 14 CDs; Harnoncourt, Koopman, Corboz and others
Volume 7
, 7 Discs
The Motets, Chorales & Songs Kirnberger Chorales,Schemelli Songs, Quodlibet
Volume 8, 16 Discs
The Organ Works; 16 CDs; Ton Koopman
Volume 9, 11 Discs
The Keyboard Works (I) The Well-Tempered Clavier, English & French Suites, Partitas etc; 11 CDs; Curtis, Ross, Wilson, Ruzickova
Volume 10, 11 Discs
The Keyboard Works (II) Goldberg Variations, Toccatas, Fugues, Italian Concerto, etc; 11 CDs; Staier, Barchi, Leonhardt, von Asperen, Baumont, and others
Volume 11, 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
Volume 12, 10 Discs
The Orchestral Works The Concertos & Orchestral Suite; 10 CDs; Il Giardino Armonico, Harnoncourt, Leonhardt
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Bach is priceless.......2006-11-10
Buy the works you like...........2006-01-11
Poor Bach.......2005-11-26
A Treasure Trove.......2004-03-07
147 out of 153 ain't bad!.......2001-04-29
If you really like Bach, it is well worth getting. You will read disparaging reviews which will tell you that there are better performances of individual works. But this is a great opportunity for a Bach lover to get very good versions of his entire oeuvre.
In the set of 60 CDs of sacred cantatas, there are about 6 duds, which feature out of tune boy sopranos! If you are not crazy about sacred cantatas, you can buy a set which omits them, which may be advised!
I love the version of the Mass in B minor, though it is very different from our set by Munchinger [which we really enjoy].
The Brandenburgs are great. THe first movement of the first concerto is a knock out! Very brassy and bombastic: quite different from the 3 or 4 other versions I have previously enjoyed.
We are a piano family and have many CDs of Bach keyboard works played on piano [though we also have the Well Tempered Clavier on harpsichord and clavichord] The keyboard performances in the set are all on harpsichord and are lively and very enjoyable.
It takes some getting used to the authentic Baroque flute performances: especially occasional out-of-tuneness. But these are also interesting and musically played.
If you would use a set of all of Bach's extant works, it is a great choice. It is competitively priced and I love the packaging.
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Bach Chorales BWV 302-342 (Bach 2000: The Motets, Chorales & Songs, 83)
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Bach 2000 Light (Without Sacred Cantatas)
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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 DiscsVolume 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
Volume 8, 10 Discs
The Orchestral Works The Concertos & Orchestral Suite; 10 CDs; Il Giardino Armonico, Harnoncourt, Leonhardt
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