John Eliot Gardiner dirigiert die großen geistlichen Werke [9CD-BOX-SET] – Tonträger gebraucht kaufen

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511 Min.

2003

CD-Box

300 g

Album: NEU und EINGESCHWEISST (OVP), SEALED

Collectors Edition - Bach: Christmas Oratorio, Etc

Release Date: 11/09/2002
Label: Archiv Produktion (DGG) Catalog #: 469 769 Spars Code: DDD
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Ruth Holton, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Hans-Peter Blochwitz, Anne Sofie von Otter, ...
Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, London Oratory Junior Choir
Number of Discs: 9
Recorded in: Stereo
Length: 8 Hours 31 Mins.

Works on This Recording
1. Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Ruth Holton (Soprano), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Tenor), Hans-Peter Blochwitz (Tenor),
Anne Sofie von Otter (Mezzo Soprano), Nancy Argenta (Soprano), Olaf Bär (Bass),
Katie Pringle (Soprano)
Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir
Period: Baroque
Written: 1734-1735; Leipzig, Germany
Date of Recording: 01/1987
Venue: EMI Abbey Road Studios, London
Length: 140 Minutes 4 Secs.
Language: German
Notes: Composition written: Leipzig, Germany (1734 - 1735).
2. Saint Matthew Passion, BWV 244 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Olaf Bär (Baritone), Howard Crook (Tenor), Anne Sofie von Otter (Mezzo Soprano),
Michael Chance (Countertenor), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Tenor), Ann Monoyios (Soprano),
Barbara Bonney (Soprano), Andreas Schmidt (Baritone), Cornelius Hauptmann (Bass)
Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, London Oratory Junior Choir
Period: Baroque
Written: Circa 1727; Leipzig, Germany
Date of Recording: 04/1988
Venue: The Maltings, Snape, Aldeburgh
Length: 157 Minutes 24 Secs.
Language: German
3. Mass in B minor, BWV 232 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Sophia McKenna (Oboe), Patrick Collin (Countertenor), Paul Nicholson (Harpsichord),
Valerie Darke (Oboe), Alastair Ross (Organ), Elizabeth Wilcock (Violin),
Howard Milner (Tenor), Andrew Murgatroyd (Tenor), Lisa Beznosiuk (Flute),
Stephen Varcoe (Bass), Richard Lloyd Morgan (Bass), Wynford Evans (Tenor),
Nancy Argenta (Soprano), Ashley Stafford (Countertenor), Lynne Dawson (Soprano),
Jane Fairfield (Soprano), Valerie Botwright (Double Bass), Timothy Mason (Cello),
Michael Thompson (French Horn), Patrizia Kwella (Soprano), Carol Hall (Soprano),
Mary Nichols (Mezzo Soprano), Michael Chance (Countertenor), Jean Knibbs (Soprano)
Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir
Period: Baroque
Written: 1747-49; Leipzig, Germany
Date of Recording: 02/1985
Venue: All Saints' Church, Tooting, London
Length: 106 Minutes 22 Secs.
Language: Latin
4. Saint John Passion, BWV 245 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Neill Archer (Tenor), Gillian Ross (Soprano), Michael Chance (Countertenor),
Ruth Holton (Soprano), Nancy Argenta (Soprano), Rufus Müller (Tenor),
Andrew Murgatroyd (Tenor), Simon Birchall (Bass), Nicholas Robertson (Tenor),
Cornelius Hauptmann (Bass), Stephen Varcoe (Bass), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Tenor)
Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir
Period: Baroque
Written: 1724; Leipzig, Germany
Date of Recording: 03/1986
Venue: All Saints' Church, Tooting, London
Length: 107 Minutes 0 Secs.
Language: German

Review by James Manheim [-]

This monster box set -- nine CDs -- is aimed at buyers in the process of doing what used to be called building a classical library. It contains four large Bach sacred works generally deemed critical to a classical collection aspiring to completeness: the St. John and St. Matthew Passions, the Christmas Oratorio, and the Mass in B minor. The performances, recorded on period instruments by John Eliot Gardiner and his English Baroque Soloists with the Monteverdi Choir in the late '80s, are reliable classics, the kind of thing that a clerk at a CD store might tell you that you couldn't go wrong with. They take advantage of the clean sound and the clear separation between ensemble sections that come from performing Bach's music on the instruments for which he wrote it, but they're not radical experiments in re-creating 300-year-old music -- by this time, when most Bach enthusiasts think about his big choral pieces, what they tend to hear in their heads is something like what's heard on these recordings. There are more vivid, warmer, more passionate recordings of each of these pieces out there, but everything included here is consistent, clear, and convincing, with top-notch soloists. The bottom line: this is a lot of good Bach, for a very reasonable price. You might also, however, like to try out various approaches to these pieces to see what they might bring, rather than getting "Bachsed in." Two annoyances are the lack of texts (you can find them on the Internet) and the tendency of the booklet to fall apart in your hands. The late-'80s sound from Archiv is warm, without a trace of the harshness sometimes heard early in the CD era.

Pressestimmen

Audio 2 / 86: "Das Resultat ist eine Sensation. Egal, wo Sie reinhören: Hier stimmt alles." (Messe) FonoForum 1 / 90: "Der Monteverdi Chor leistet Maßstäbliches. Das Orchester reagiert mit vitaler Spiellust auf Gardiners stetes Vorwärtsdrängen und setzt rhythmisch pointierte Akzente." (BWV 244) FonoForum 12 / 87: "Eine schlanke, moderne, eigenwillige Aufnahme von englischer Noblesse und intelligenter Gesamtdramaturgie." (BWV 248)

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