{"product_id":"bach-cantatas-170-82-159-marriner-sirneville","title":"BACH: Six Cantatas - Janet Baker, Robert Tear, John Shirley-Quirk, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Neville Marriner, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields (2 CDs)","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/4660\/3571\/files\/ABOUT_THIS_RECORDING_W._WORLD_2_e41329ea-b9a9-4e85-9c74-e4ca06232094_480x480.png?v=1597936917\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe complete Philips and L’Oiseau-Lyre recordings of Bach cantatas made by Sir Neville Marriner, reissued together for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBach’s cantatas vary enormously in scale and style, ranging from festal works featuring elaborate choral movements and large instrumental ensembles including trumpets and drums, to more meditative cantatas for a single voice and only a handful of instruments. The six examples gathered in this new Eloquence reissue tend towards the latter, more intimate vein of expression but they also encompass stylistic poles defined by varying purposes as either a sacred exposition of Scriptural principles or a rollicking secular entertainment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Academy of St. Martin in the Fields was not yet five years old when, in April 1964, it was joined by John Shirley-Quirk in St. Paul’s, Knightsbridge, to record the two most renowned cantatas for solo bass voice. Both ‘Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen’ and ‘Ich habe genug’ rank among the composer’s most profound contemplations of mortality and singers of every voice-type have wished to put their personal stamp on them. Reviews at the time praised Shirley-Quirk’s assured legato as well as his affecting identification with Bach’s acutely sensitive response to text.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA little under two years later, the Academy and Shirley-Quirk made a sequel album, featuring another pair of much-loved English singers, Robert Tear and Dame Janet Baker. In ‘Vergnügte Ruh’ Baker sings hauntingly of the soul’s longing for death but to Shirley-Quirk is allotted the prize of ‘Es ist vollbracht’ in ‘Sehet, wir gehn hinauf gen Jerusalem’, one of the most expressive arias Bach ever wrote.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDating from the early digital era, a pair of fun, sometimes satirical secular cantatas features the husband-and-wife team of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Julia Varady, well placed to make the most of Bach’s underrated sense of humour and as ever accompanied by playing of natural and unaffected style from the Academy and Marriner.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/4660\/3571\/files\/TRACK_LISTING_WITH_WORLD_1_4b3088c9-df3c-47ba-bf41-5b7e5d1a8144_480x480.png?v=1597936873\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH\u003cbr\u003eCD 1\u003cbr\u003eCantata ‘Vergnügte Ruh’ beliebte Seelenlust’, BWV 170\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJanet Baker\u003c\/strong\u003e, mezzo-soprano\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eCantata ‘Ich habe genug’, BWV 82\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Shirley-Quirk\u003c\/strong\u003e, bass\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCantata ‘Sehet, wir gehn hinauf gen Jerusalem’, BWV 159\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJanet Baker\u003c\/strong\u003e, mezzo-soprano\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRobert Tear\u003c\/strong\u003e, tenor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Shirley-Quirk\u003c\/strong\u003e, bass\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSt. Anthony Singers\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCD 2\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eCantata ‘Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen’, BWV 56\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Shirley-Quirk\u003c\/strong\u003e, baritone\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSt. Anthony Singers\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eCantata ‘Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht’ (Coffee Cantata), BWV 211\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJulia Varady\u003c\/strong\u003e, soprano\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAldo Baldin\u003c\/strong\u003e, tenor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDietrich Fischer-Dieskau\u003c\/strong\u003e, bass\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCantata ‘Mer hahn en neue Oberkeet’ (Peasant Cantata), BWV 212\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJulia Varady\u003c\/strong\u003e, soprano\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDietrich Fischer-Dieskau\u003c\/strong\u003e, bass\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAcademy of St. Martin in the Fields\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNeville Marriner\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DECCA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32356309860439,"sku":"028947626848","price":14.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/4660\/3571\/products\/4829722_BachCantatas_Marriner.jpg?v=1600879265","url":"https:\/\/classicselectworld.com\/en-de\/products\/bach-cantatas-170-82-159-marriner-sirneville","provider":"ClassicSelect World","version":"1.0","type":"link"}