With this set of 12 cantatas, a few of them quite short, Dutch historical-instrument conductor Ton Koopman approaches the end of his monumental traversal of the complete Bach cantata corpus. The cantatas here mostly date from the last two decades of Bach's life. By this time Bach had cantatas from earlier cycles ready for most occasions pertaining ...
Just when you think that Ton Koopman's magnificent cycle of the complete cantatas of Bach can't get any better, on the last disc of the last volume, it does with a reconstruction of Bach's fragmentary Cantata 193 Ihr Tore zu Zion by Koopman himself. After 19 volumes of three discs apiece, Koopman has proved himself to be perhaps the current ...
After he finished recording everything he could possibly record by J.S. Bach in 2004, Dutch keyboard player and conductor Ton Koopman turned to recording everything he could possibly record by Dietrich Buxtehude in 2005. It made perfect sense. Buxtehude was a direct inspiration for the young Bach -- the story of the younger composer trekking from ...
Just because there are ten cantatas in this tenth volume of Ton Koopman and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Chorus' complete recordings of Bach's cantatas is no reason to play them all straight through them. After all, the cantatas were intended to be heard just once a week at Sunday services, and playing ten straight through comes dangerously ...
Why did Bach, a German Lutheran composer, write Latin church music? The churches for which he wrote music used Latin settings on certain major holidays and feast days. But there was another reason: Bach was a practical man, and music suited to the needs of the Catholic court of the Elector of Saxony in Dresden could (and in several cases did) do ...
It's a safe bet that very few listeners will buy just one volume of a series of the Bach cantatas. Whether it's the Helmuth Rilling, the Masaaki Suzuki, or the John Eliot Gardiner in single discs; the Gustav Leonhardt and Nikolaus Harnoncourt in double-disc sets; or the Ton Koopman in triple-disc sets, once a listener determines which series of ...
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