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Bach – Secular Cantatas, Vol. 5: Birthday Cantatas

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Catalogue numberBIS-2161 SACD
Release date2015-09-10
Discs1
Orig. sample rate96000Hz
Total time73:17

Continuing their exploration of Bach’s vocal music, Bach Collegium Japan and Masaaki Suzuki have now reached the fifth volume of secular cantatas, with the previous instalment being ‘urgently recommended’ by the reviewer in Fanfare, and its contents described as ‘unusually colourful and vivid performances, even by the standards so far set by Suzuki’s Collegium Japan’ (International Record Review). Both cantatas on the present disc were first performed in 1733 by Bach and his Collegium Musicum at public concerts in Leipzig. They were also part of what almost appears to have been a campaign by Bach to be appointed Court Composer by the Saxon Prince-Elector Friedrich August II, something which took place three years later. Lasst uns sorgen, lasst uns wachen, BWV 213, also known as Hercules at the crossroads, was composed for the 11th birthday of the Prince-Elector’s oldest son, and Tönet, ihr Pauken! Erschallet, Trompeten! BWV 214 in a similar manner celebrated the birthday two months later of his wife, Maria Josepha of Saxony. Both works are so-called ’dramma per musica’, in which the vocal soloists are embodying dramatic characters – in the present cantatas these are taken from Greek mythology. Needless to say, Bach rose to the festive occasions, deploying trumpets and timpani (as implied in the title of BWV 214) and horns (in BWV 213) to great effect. A year later, he would reuse much of the music from the two cantatas in a similarly jubilant but otherwise quite different context – admirers of the Christmas Oratorio will for instance recognize the opening chorus of that work (Jauchzet, frohlocket) in the first movement of BWV 214 as well as the celebrated alto aria Bereite dich, Zion as an artfully transformed version of Hercules brusque rejection of Wohlust (Lust) in the ninth movement of BWV 213.
 
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  Composer: Bach, Johann Sebastian
  Lasst uns sorgen, lasst uns wachen, BWV 213 47:12
01 1. Chorus. Lasst uns sorgen, lasst uns wachen … 06:00 $ 1.44 USD
02 2. Recitativo (Alto). Und wo? Wo ist die rechte Bahn … 00:43 $ 0.17 USD
03 3. Aria (Soprano). Schlafe, mein Liebster, und pflege der
Ruh …
10:58 $ 2.63 USD
04 4. Recitativo (Soprano, Tenore). Auf! folge meiner
Bahn …
01:16 $ 0.30 USD
05 5. Aria (Alto). Treues Echo dieser Orten … 05:58 $ 1.43 USD
06 6. Recitativo (Tenore). Mein hoffnungsvoller Held! … 00:53 $ 0.21 USD
07 7. Aria (Tenore). Auf meinen Flügeln sollst du
schweben …
04:21 $ 1.04 USD
08 8. Recitativo (Tenore). Die weiche Wollust locket zwar … 00:39 $ 0.16 USD
09 9. Aria (Alto). Ich will dich nicht hören … 04:02 $ 0.97 USD
10 10. Recitativo (Alto, Tenore). Geliebte Tugend, du
allein …
00:46 $ 0.18 USD
11 11. Aria Duetto (Alto, Tenore). Ich bin deine … 07:36 $ 1.82 USD
12 12. Recitativo accompagnato (Basso). Schaut, Götter … 01:18 $ 0.31 USD
13 13. Chorus [e Arioso (Basso)]. Lust der Völker, Lust der
Deinen …
02:42 $ 0.65 USD
 
  Tönet, ihr Pauken! Erschallet, Trompeten! BWV 214 25:18
14 1. Chorus. Tönet, ihr Pauken! Erschallet, Trompeten! … 07:57 $ 1.91 USD
15 2. Recitativo (Tenore). Heut ist der Tag … 00:58 $ 0.23 USD
16 3. Aria (Soprano). Blast die wohlgegriffnen Flöten … 03:16 $ 0.78 USD
17 4. Recitativo (Soprano). Mein knallendes Metall … 00:55 $ 0.22 USD
18 5. Aria (Alto). Fromme Musen! meine Glieder! … 03:40 $ 0.88 USD
19 6. Recitativo (Alto). Unsre Königin im Lande … 00:58 $ 0.23 USD
20 7. Aria (Basso). Kron und Preis gekrönter Damen … 04:21 $ 1.04 USD
21 8. Recitativo (Basso). So dringe in das weite
Erdenrund …
01:15 $ 0.30 USD
22 9. Chorus. Blühet, ihr Linden in Sachsen, wie Zedern! … 01:58 $ 0.47 USD
 
  Album total 73:17
ComposerBach, Johann Sebastian
ConductorSuzuki, Masaaki
OrchestraBach Collegium Japan
AltoBlaze, Robin
SopranoLunn, Joanne
TenorSakurada, Makoto
BassWörner, Dominik

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