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