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Just over twenty secular cantatas by JS Bach have survived, and we know of almost thirty other cantatas that are now lost. The secular cantatas were almost all composed for some important, festive event in a family or in public, academic or political life. The present disc includes one of the most regularly performed of these works, the Coffee Cantata. This was written around 1734, probably for a performance at the Zimmermann Coffee House in Leipzig.
The disc opens with O holder Tag, a wedding cantata for solo soprano dated, in the version here performed, to 1741. (The piece was actually used in more or less modified form by Bach on at least five different occasions, from as early on as 1729.) The solo soprano, in her first BIS recording, is Carolyn Sampson who is one of the most exciting performers in her field today. A stunning introduction to the world of Bach's cantatas and to the incomparable Bach Collegium Japan directed by Masaaki Suzuki
Johann Sebastian Bach
O Holder Tag, Erwünschte Zeit (Hochzeitskantate), BWV 210 35'00
01 I. Recitativo (soprano) - O holder Tag, erwünschte Zeit ... 1'04
02 II. Aria (soprano) - Spielet, ihr beseelten Lieder... 7'00
03 III. Recitativo (soprano) - Doch, haltet ein... 1'03
04 IV. Aria (soprano) - Ruht hie, matte Tone... 8'10
05 V. Recitativo (soprano) - So glaubt man denn, dass die Musik verführe... 1'50
06 VI. Aria (soprano) - Schweigt, ihr Floten, schweigt, ihr Tone... 4'43
07 VII. Recitativo (soprano) - Was luft? was Grab?... 1'29
08 VIII. Aria (soprano) - Grosser Gonner, dein Vergnügen... 2'43
09 IX. Recitativo (soprano) - Hochteurer Mann, so fahre ferner fort... 1'35
10 X. Aria (soprano) - Seid beglückt, edle beide... 5'23
Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht (Kaffeekantate), BWV 211 25'08
11 I. Recitativo (tenor) - Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht... 0'34
12 II. Aria (bass) - Hat man nicht mit seinen Kindern... 2'54
13 III. Recitativo (bass, soprano) - Du boses Kind, du loses Madchen... 0'36
14 IV. Aria (soprano) - Ei! wie schmeckt der Coffee süsse... 4'42
15 V. Recitativo (bass, soprano) - Wenn du mir nicht den Coffee lasst... 1'02
16 VI. Aria (bass) - Madchen, die von harten Sinnen... 2'55
17 VII. Recitativo (bass, soprano) - Nun folge, was dein Vater spricht!... 0'49
18 VIII. Aria (soprano) - Heute noch, Lieber Vater, tut es doch!... 6'27
19 IX. Recitativo (tenor) - Nun geht und sucht der alte Schlendrian... 0'43
20 X. Chorus (soprano, tenor, bass) - Die Katze lasst das Mausen nicht... 4'26
Album total 62'05 |
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