This is the third work for which bach employed the term oratorioum, the other two being the christmas oratorio and the ascension oratorio. Bach sinfonia, oratorio bwv 249 philippe herreweghe youtube bach easter oratorio, bwv 249 gardiner duration. I only had heard his masses, passions, and the easter oratorio before. Easter oratorio osteroratorium bwv 249 cantate bmv 66 erfreut euch, ihr herzen music. Easter oratorio bwv 249 ascension oratorio bwv 11 genere. Jeg returns to filling in the gaps in his bach catalogue with this album, which includes the funeral cantata bwv106 and the easter oratorio. Bach easter oratorio bwv 249 osteroratorium philippe. Whereas the shorter easter and ascension oratorios are for specific occasions, this. Mary daughter of james soprano, mary magdalene alto, peter tenor, john bass biblical quotations in green font, chorales. Bach had composed his christmas oratorio, based on the gospels of luke and matthew, in 1734. Emmanuel music continues to perform cycles of largescale and chamber works by bach, handel, mozart, schubert, brahms, debussy, haydn, schoenberg, weill, wolf, medelssohn, and schumann under artistic director.
Bach easter oratorio bwv 249 osteroratorium philippe herreweghe. Bach, j s easter oratorio bwv249, cd this page lists all recordings of easter oratorio bwv249 by johann sebastian bach 16851750. I am posting this to both lists, since it covers both topics. Bach has always had a prominent place on radio airwaves in boston. None of these works is dramatically dissimilar to what bach calls in other situations cantata, except that the christmas oratorio is actually a set of six distinct cantatas. Johann sebastian bach, phillippe herreweghe, barbara schlick, kai wessel, james taylor, peter kooy, collegium vocale bach edition. Three are cantatas belonging to the cantata cycles composed in 17231724 bwv37, 17241725 bwv128, and 17251726 bwv43. Christmas oratorio weihnachts oratorium by johann sebastian bach, john eliot gardiner, et al. Bach s christmas oratorio is the famous one, of course, but there are two others for easter and ascension. Bach easter oratorio and easter cantata fritz werner. This largescale cantata was first heard in leipzig at easter in 1725. Johannespassion bwv 245 tolzer knabenchor, direction. Osteroratorium philippe herreweghe, collegium vocale on allmusic 1995. The two oratorios are really large cantatas, with their.
Cantata, bwv 10 is a recording of karl munchinger leading the stuttgarter kammerorchester as they play j. Herreweghe bach cantatas series showing 1 10 of 14 results. Gardiners previous bwv106 was released on one of the dg archiv cantata pilgrimage recordings 4635812, but it was recorded 10 years earlier at st. Christmas oratorio by philippe herreweghe collegium vocale on amazon music. Intended for the second day of easter and also reworked from an original secular cantata, it most likely was performed as an easter work the same year 1735 as the oratorio. The words of these two secular version are by picander, and the words of this sacred version are probably by picander also. Johann sebastian bach osteroratorium bwv 249, ddur easter oratorio 1 april 1725 philippe herreweghe conducts collegium vocale gent agnes mellon soprano, andreas scholl alto, mark padmore. Nikolaus harnoncourt kurt equiluz, tenor evangelist robert holl, bass jesus. Get a free download from this performance in our my daily bach podcast. What a start bach provides to his celebration of the resurrection. Osteroratorium bwv 249, 6 edition bachakademie vol. Lobet gott in seinen reichen bwv 11, known as the ascension oratorio. I bought the herreweghe box of the most beautiful cantatas today. This osteroratorium easter oratorio was first performed on easter sunday in 1725.
The easter oratorio is a reworking by bach of cantata bwv 249a written for the birthday of the duke of saxony, and reworked again as bwv 249b for the birthday of the governor of leipzig. Johann sebastian bach 16851750 easter and ascension oratorios bwv 249 bwv 11 masaaki suzuki cover dati album bach titolo. Actually, these recordings are very much of a piece with suzukis cantata discs. In composing his easter oratorio, bach drew heavily on a nowlost cantata entitled entfliehet, verschwindet, entweichet, ihr sorgen, which he had written to mark the birthday of duke christian of saxeweisenfels, on february 23, 1725. Whether its an iconic work like the toccata and fugue in d minor or a rarely heard but emotionally riveting church cantata, bach s music is a touchstone, returning listeners to a foundation on which so much subsequent music has been built. Nevertheless circumstantial evidence seems to point strongly toward the local poet, christian friedrich henrici his penname was picander 17001764 who had just begun his collaboration with bach in february, 1725. Easter oratorio bwv 249 come, hurry and run, you swift feet. He had composed an easter oratorio already in 1725. Soon after gardiner, philippe herreweghe followed in 1989 with a more. There are four extant works by johan sebastian bach for the feast of the ascension, part of the liturgical cycle for easter. This double album assembles two oratorios and three cantatas for the feasts of easter and ascension. Order from your preferred classical music cd store. But starting on the musical side, what we have here is the work of a superb group, led by the brisk tempos of conductor matthew halls, but perfectly.
Bach sinfonia, oratorio bwv 249 philippe herreweghe. The opening chorus of the cantata bwv 66 is one of the legion of wonders among bach s choral movements. It was a hastilyarranged parody of a secular cantata written in the same year. Bach s beloved christmas oratorio at brussels palais des beauxarts in 2012. Easter oratorio bwv 249 osteroratorium herreweghe u7. Bach barbara schlick, kai wessel, james taylor, peter kooy, collegium vocale, philippe herreweghe. Its hard to decide when all factors conspire together to elevate bach s easter and ascension oratorios to the same level of recognition of their more famous cousin, the christmas oratorio.
Bach s osteroratorium and the kantate bwv10 in 1968. Appreciating the evangelists kaleidoscopic role allows bachs. First of all considering that this recording was done back in the late 60s the sound quality is surprisingly and it verily feels as if one is present as it is. Find recording details and track inforamtion for easter oratorio osteroratorium. Bach 333 is released worldwide on october 26th in two language versions english and german. In modern times, we tend to think of an oratorio as a sort of sacred. Himmelfahrtsoratorium, philippe herreweghe choir of the age of. Gerhard schmidtgaden concentus musicus wien, conductor. Bach herreweghe osteroratorium 416 hz grain apps blog. The material posted here if ed must be deleted in 24 hours. Little over a month afterwards the work was given again, but this time with a revised text supplied by picander, and with new recitatives. Soprano dorothee mields, countertenor damien guillon, tenor thomas hobbs, basspeter kooij join the celebrated collegium vocale ghent under their music director and founder, belgian conductor philippe herreweghe, for a performance of j. Conductor masaaki suzuki and the japan bach collegium, japans leading historicalinstrument ensemble, here take a break from a long series of cantata recordings to present bach s easter oratorio and ascension oratorio. Johann sebastian bach osteroratorium bwv 249, ddur easter oratorio 1 april 1725 philippe herreweghe conducts collegium vocale.
If youve already come across masaaki suzuki and his bach collegium of. Come, hasten and run easter oratorio by richard stokes. Easter oratorio, but also several cantatas and an ascension oratorio, among other. The recording conducted by philippe herreweghe and collegium vocale on harmonia mundi 1994.
In this 1993 recording, belgian conductor philippe herreweghe. Philippe herreweghe conducts bachs christmas oratorio. Emmanuel music is a bostonbased ensemble of singers and instrumentalists founded in 1970 by craig smith to perform the complete sacred cantatas of j. Often overshadowed by the christmas oratorio, the two oratorios presented here rely on a form of dramaturgy absent from the cantatas.
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