Bach - Easter Oratorio · Magnificat / Koopman

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Bach's celebration of Easter is a mostly joyous one, opening with a three-movement sinfonia, richly orchestrated, and complete with trumpets and drums: the third movement includes the chorus inviting listeners to rejoice and hasten to the tomb of Jesus, "For our Savior has awakened." There follow recitatives and arias for Mary Magdalen, Mary, the mother of James, Peter, and John. Each character goes through grief to love and gratefulness, and Bach's endlessly inventive scoring, melodic lines, and changing orchestral textures take us on a rich, 40-minute musical journey to peace. Only a too-long soprano aria tends to wear. The Oratorio is coupled on this CD with Bach's justly famous 12-movement setting (in 25 minutes) of the Magnificat text from Luke. Also elaborately scored, with the vocal choices, tempos, and mood changing every couple of minutes, this is one of the great works of Western liturgical music (Gardiner's masterly reading of this work is a must-have). The performances, on Baroque instruments and with crisp, clean, unsentimental Baroque style, are exemplary. Rejoice! --Robert Levine

Bach - Easter Oratorio · Magnificat / Koopman, Music, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ton Koopman, Lisa Larsson, Elisabeth von Magnus, Klaus Mertens, Gerd Türk, Bogna Bartosz, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir, Choral, Classical, Classical Composers, Classical Music, Magnificat, Oratorio, Orchestral & Symphonic
Bach - Easter Oratorio · Magnificat / Koopman
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • What a fun performance and glorious sound!
  • Powerful Kantor's Easter & Magnificat Efforts
  • What an up!
 Bach - Easter Oratorio · Magnificat / Koopman
Johann Sebastian Bach , Ton Koopman , Lisa Larsson , Elisabeth von Magnus , Klaus Mertens , Gerd Türk , Bogna Bartosz , and Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir
Manufacturer: Erato
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000I8TC
Release Date: 1999-03-16

Tracks:

  1. Easter Oratorio BWV 249: Sinfonia
  2. Easter Oratorio BWV 249: Adagio
  3. Easter Oratorio BWV 249: Chorus: 'Kommt, eilet und laufet'
  4. Easter Oratorio BWV 249: Recitativo: 'O kalter Manner Sinn!'
  5. Easter Oratorio BWV 249: Aria: 'Seele, deine Spezereien'
  6. Easter Oratorio BWV 249: Recitativo: 'Hier ist die Gruft'
  7. Easter Oratorio BWV 249: Aria: 'Sanfte soll mein Todeskummer'
  8. Easter Oratorio BWV 249: Recitativo: 'Indessen seufzen wir'
  9. Easter Oratorio BWV 249: Aria: 'Saget, saget mir geschwinde'
  10. Easter Oratorio BWV 249: Recitativo: 'Wir sind erfreut'
  11. Easter Oratorio BWV 249: Chorus: 'Preis und Dank'
  12. Magnificat BWV 243: Chorus: 'Magnificat anima mea Dominum'
  13. Magnificat BWV 243: Aria: 'Et exsultavit spiritus meus in Deo'
  14. Magnificat BWV 243: Aria: 'Quia respexit humilitatem'
  15. Magnificat BWV 243: Chorus: 'Omnes generationes'
  16. Magnificat BWV 243: Aria: Quia fecit mihi magna qui potens est'
  17. Magnificat BWV 243: Aria: 'Et misericordia'
  18. Magnificat BWV 243: Chorus: 'Fecit potentiam in brachio suo'
  19. Magnificat BWV 243: Aria: 'Deposuit potentes de sede'
  20. Magnificat BWV 243: Aria: 'Esurientes implevit bonis'
  21. Magnificat BWV 243: Chorus: 'Suscepit Israel puerum suum'
  22. Magnificat BWV 243: Chorus: 'Sicut locutus est ad patres nostros'
  23. Magnificat BWV 243: Chorus: 'Gloria Patri, gloria Filio'

Amazon.com essential recording

Bach's celebration of Easter is a mostly joyous one, opening with a three-movement sinfonia, richly orchestrated, and complete with trumpets and drums: the third movement includes the chorus inviting listeners to rejoice and hasten to the tomb of Jesus, "For our Savior has awakened." There follow recitatives and arias for Mary Magdalen, Mary, the mother of James, Peter, and John. Each character goes through grief to love and gratefulness, and Bach's endlessly inventive scoring, melodic lines, and changing orchestral textures take us on a rich, 40-minute musical journey to peace. Only a too-long soprano aria tends to wear. The Oratorio is coupled on this CD with Bach's justly famous 12-movement setting (in 25 minutes) of the Magnificat text from Luke. Also elaborately scored, with the vocal choices, tempos, and mood changing every couple of minutes, this is one of the great works of Western liturgical music (Gardiner's masterly reading of this work is a must-have). The performances, on Baroque instruments and with crisp, clean, unsentimental Baroque style, are exemplary. Rejoice! --Robert Levine

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars What a fun performance and glorious sound!.......2002-07-08

This recording is full of energy and joy. The period instruments sound so wonderful and lush. It was recorded in just the right environment and sounds superb.

The approach to both pieces is spot on and you will want to listen to this recording many times just for the sheer fun of it.

The provided booklet provides some helpful notes on the background of the pieces - when and why Bach wrote them. And also the libretto (which is ALWAYS nice to have). I like to have all that information available and knowing when and why can deepen our appreciation of the music. However, the first and most important thing is to hear the music.

This recording is among the best of these works. So, you would do well to begin here!

5 out of 5 stars Powerful Kantor's Easter & Magnificat Efforts.......2002-05-09

1723-25 were powerful, productive years for Bach in Leipzig as Kantor. In 1723-24 Christmas, comes this Magnificat. Especially attractive to me is track 14, "Aria" "Quia respexit humilitatem" which is a powerful soprano and oboe movement aided by the full chorus piping in "To all Generations!"

The Easter Oratorio was a gift for an honorarium by Duke Christian composed around four aria recitatives for Mary Magdelene, Mary, John and Peter. The opening Sinfonia is breathtaking with its gracious oboe work by Marcel Ponseele.
Building to the heights of the finale, "Praise and Thanks" ends in triumphant declaration by full choir "The Lion of Judah approaches in triumph!"

Strong vocalist performances by soprano Lisa Larsson and bass Klaus Mertens. Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Chorus directed by Ton Koopman is well done with passion and pace.

With translation in French, German and English, this is excellent performance of important Sacred Large-Scale Composition for soloists, choir and orchestra.

5 out of 5 stars What an up!.......2000-04-13

Ok, I don't speak German. It doesn't matter.The opening bars of this CD are so pleasing, excited, joyous, thrilled they break the language barrier. You know easter is here. Then they turn to the Magnificat. A wonderful rendition.This is the version that will be my standard.

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