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JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Advent Cantatas Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe
1h02
1 CD
HMM931605
Waiting for the Lord...
Surely one of the greatest gifts the Lutheran Church ever made to music was to have charged Bach with the duty of producing a cantata for every week of the year! He left us no fewer than three for the first Sunday in Advent alone, composed between 1714 (at Weimar) and 1724-31 (at Leipzig).
They are inspired in very different ways by Luther's original chorale: it is as if all of baroque Germany is contained between the sobriety of BWV 61 and the ambitious frescoes of BWV 36 and 62...
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Artists
- Sibylla RubensSoprano
- Sarah ConnollyMezzo-soprano
- Christoph PrégardienTenor
- Peter KooyBass
- Collegium Vocale Gent
- Conductor