Bach. Advent Cantatas. Collegium Vocale Gent/herre
) | Label: harmonia mundi Catalog: HMA1951605 Format: CD Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe HerrewegheComposed by: Bach, J.S.: Advent Cantatas 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.  Price: $11.98 |