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J.S. Bach: Advent Cantatas
Artist
Sibylla Rubens, Sarah Connolly, Christoph Prégardien, Peter Kooy
Label
Harmonia Mundi
Catalogue Number
HMM931605
Release Date
November 29, 2019

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...

  1. 1 Schwingt freudig euch empor, BWV 36: I. Chorus "Schwingt freudig euch empor zu den erhabenen Sternen" 4:00
  2. 2 Schwingt freudig euch empor, BWV 36: II. Choral "Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland" 3:33
  3. 3 Schwingt freudig euch empor, BWV 36: III. Aria "Die Liebe zieht mit sanften Schritten" (Tenor) 5:56
  4. 4 Schwingt freudig euch empor, BWV 36: IV. Choral "Zwingt die Saiten in Cythara" 1:23
  5. 5 Schwingt freudig euch empor, BWV 36: V. Aria "Willkommen, werter Schatz!" (Bass) 3:36
  6. 6 Schwingt freudig euch empor, BWV 36: VI. Choral "Der du bist dem Vater gleich" (Tenor) 1:48
  7. 7 Schwingt freudig euch empor, BWV 36: VII. Aria "Auch mit gedämpften, schwachen Stimmen" (Sopran) 8:36
  8. 8 Schwingt freudig euch empor, BWV 36: VIII. Choral "Lob sei Gott dem Vater ton" 0:41
  9. 9 Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 61: I. Ouvertüre "Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland" 3:20
  10. 10 Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 61: II. Recitativo "Der Heiland ist gekommen" (Tenor) 1:31
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