Label: harmonia mundi Catalog: 5908360/62 Format: CD
Philippe Herreweghe - Conductor; La Chapelle Royale - Early music ensemble; Collegium Vocale Gent - Early music ensemble; Barbara Schlick - Soprano; Deborah York - Soprano; Carolyn Sampson - Soprano
Johann Sebastian Bach Magnificat BWV 243 Cantata BWV 80 Christmas Cantatas at Leipzig BWV 91, 121, 133 Cantatas BWV 8, 125, 138
My soul doth magnify the Lord.' The Magnificat was the very first work Bach composed after his appointment as Cantor of St. Thomas's School in Leipzig in 1723. We can imagine the care he lavished on the work that was to establish him in this new function. It was revised some years later: the key was changed to D major and the forces were considerably enlarged. This is the version in which one of Bach's most famous choral works has come down to us (HMC 901326).
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