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JSB – The beautiful Cantata BWV170 for the Sixth Sunday after Trinity performed by Collegium Vocale/Herreweghe and sung by Andreas Scholl....

Some stimulating pre-breakfast listening for me this morning:



Maurice Ravel
Rapsodie Espagnole
Alborada del Gracioso (1918) - from Miroirs
Menuet Antique
Choeur et Orchestre National de France
Eliahu Inbal conducting

http://www.musicweb-international.com/c ... _inbal.htm

fergus wrote:JSB – The beautiful Cantata BWV170 for the Sixth Sunday after Trinity performed by Collegium Vocale/Herreweghe and sung by Andreas Scholl....

Do you have a cantata for every sunday of the year then?

Seán wrote:

fergus wrote:JSB – The beautiful Cantata BWV170 for the Sixth Sunday after Trinity performed by Collegium Vocale/Herreweghe and sung by Andreas Scholl....

Do you have a cantata for every sunday of the year then?

Basically, yes....that was JSB's job after all i.e. to compose cantatas for all of the appropriate Lithurgical events of the Lutheran calander, especially the Sunday Service. I once read a nice story that during the cold bleak days of winter the bold JS would slip out of the church during those long fire and brimstone sermons and visit a local "coffee" house for some sustenance!!

Anyway, this year I am playing a Cantata appropriate for the day just to make it a little bit less boring for you guys!!!

Vivaldi – Dixit Dominus....




This wonderful music is performed with a lovely warmth and with a wonderful sense of Life. Although played on modern instruments the music is performed with a light touch and articulation very appropriate to the style of music.

fergus wrote:

Seán wrote: Do you have a cantata for every sunday of the year then?

Basically, yes....that was JSB's job after all i.e. to compose cantatas for all of the appropriate Lithurgical events of the Lutheran calander, especially the Sunday Service. I once read a nice story that during the cold bleak days of winter the bold JS would slip out of the church during those long fire and brimstone sermons and visit a local "coffee" house for some sustenance!!

Well done then.

Anyway, this year I am playing a Cantata appropriate for the day just to make it a little bit less boring for you guys!!!

Your posts cheer me on a Sunday morning, they do not bore me at all, it's your passion and all the better for that too. [wink]

DaveF wrote:

Oooh, I'd love to get my hands on a copy of that recording.

J.S. Bach - Cantata BWV 211 'Kaffee-Kantate' (Emma Kirkby/Rogers Covey-Crump/David Thomas/Christopher Hogwood, The Academy of Ancient Music, L'Oiseau-Lyre) below

Shostakovich - String Quartet No.6 (The Shostakovich Quartet, Regis)

Sibelius - Symphony No.6 (Herbert von Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, DG)