Herreweghe Bach Leipzig Cantatas

Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe - J.S. Bach: Leipzig Cantatas (Remastered) (2001/2023) [Digital Download 24/48]

Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe - J.S. Bach: Leipzig Cantatas (Remastered) (2001/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 55:25 minutes | 588 MB
Classical, Sacred, Vocal | Label: harmonia mundi, Official Digital Download

The Christmas cantatas have in common the use of a church chorale as their conceptual starting point, and their intimate performing forces. In Bach's output they constitute a kind of meditation on the meaning of the feast of Christmas.
Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herrewegh - Bach Leipzig Cantatas BWV 101, BWV 103 & BWV 115 (2017) [24/96]

Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herrewegh - Bach Leipzig Cantatas BWV 101, BWV 103 & BWV 115 (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 62:00 minutes | 1.07 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

For the third time on the Phi label, Philippe Herreweghe gives us the opportunity to (re)discover three cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach – Nimm von uns, Herr, du treuer Gott, BWV 101, Ihr werdet weinen und heulen, BWV 103 and Mache dich, mein Geist, bereit, BWV 115. After two albums of cantatas written during the composer’s first year in Leipzig (LPH006 and LPH012), the Belgian conductor and his Collegium Vocale Gent, orchestra and choir, will be performing three cantatas he composed during his second year as Kantor at St Thomas’s.
Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herrewegh - Bach: Leipzig Cantatas BWV 101, BWV 103 & BWV 115 (2017)

Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herrewegh - Bach: Leipzig Cantatas BWV 101, BWV 103 & BWV 115
Classical, Vocal | WEB FLAC (tracks) & d. booklet | 62:00 min | 296 MB
Label: Phi | Tracks: 19 | Rls.date: 2017

or the third time on the Phi label, Philippe Herreweghe gives us the opportunity to (re)discover three cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach – Nimm von uns, Herr, du treuer Gott, BWV 101, Ihr werdet weinen und heulen, BWV 103 and Mache dich, mein Geist, bereit, BWV 115. After two albums of cantatas written during the composer’s first year in Leipzig (LPH006 and LPH012), the Belgian conductor and his Collegium Vocale Gent, orchestra and choir, will be performing three cantatas he composed during his second year as Kantor at St Thomas’s.
Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe - J.S. Bach: Secular Cantatas (Remastered) (2004/2023) [Digital Download 24/96]

Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe - J.S. Bach: Secular Cantatas (Remastered) (2004/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 56:08 minutes | 992 MB
Classical, Vocal | Label: harmonia mundi, Official Digital Download

"Sound, ye drums! Ring out, ye trumpets!" In his Leipzig years, Bach liked to remind people that he was not only Kantor of St Thomas’s, but also the city’s director of music. It was in this capacity that he wrote these sumptuous secular cantatas, in honour respectively of the university professor Kortte (BWV 207, 1726) and of Queen Maria Josepha (BWV 214, 1733). Allegorical figures such as Industry, Fortune, Honour and Gratitude take it in turns to sing of the learning and the merits of the recipients, borrowing material from one of the Brandenburg Concertos or ‘quoting’ some of the finest music from the Christmas Oratorio, not yet composed…
Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe - J.S. Bach: Christmas Cantatas (Remastered) (1995/2023) [24/48]

Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe - J.S. Bach: Christmas Cantatas (Remastered) (1995/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 72:34 minutes | 639 MB
Classical, Sacred, Oratorio | Label: harmonia mundi, Official Digital Download

If there is one work that sheds light on all facets of festive music-making during the Christmas season, it is Johann Sebastian Bach’s Christmas Oratorio. This music transcends the ages and radiates throughout the world – starting in Leipzig, where the six-part cantata cycle was first heard in the two main churches of St. Nikolai and St. Thomas on the festive days between 25 December 1734 and 6 January 1735.
Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe - J.S. Bach: Advent Cantatas (Remastered) (1996/2023) [Digital Download 24/48]

Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe - J.S. Bach: Advent Cantatas (Remastered) (1996/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 62:45 minutes | 663 MB
Classical, Sacred, Vocal | Label: harmonia mundi, Official Digital Download

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…
Philippe Herreweghe, Collegium Vocale Gent - Johann Sebastian Bach: Famous Cantatas Vol. 2 (2010)

Philippe Herreweghe, Collegium Vocale Gent - Johann Sebastian Bach: Famous Cantatas Vol. 2 (2010)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 825 Mb | Total time: 2h58'46 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HML 5908363.65 | Recorded: 1988, 2000, 2005

This program also makes a perfect introduction to the world of the cantatas in general for anyone who loves Bach's instrumental music or larger vocal works (like the B minor Mass), but who has been hesitating before taking the plunge into the vast sea of his cantata production. Why? Simple: two of these pieces contain music found elsewhere in Bach's output. For example, the first chorus of BWV 120 became the concluding number (Et expecto) of the B minor Mass "Credo". BWV 29 opens with an almost shockingly brilliant arrangement (as an organ concerto) of the opening movement of the E major violin partita, followed by the chorus that appears in the B minor Mass as both the "Gratias" and the "Dona Nobis Pacem" (the German original means exactly the same thing as the Gratias: "We thank thee," making the adaptation entirely apropos). All three cantatas feature brilliant writing for trumpets (four of them in BWV 119) and drums, and were written for civic ceremonies in Leipzig. And if the words are often less than inspiring to us now, no one can argue that Bach didn't rise to the occasion musically.
Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe - Bach: Christus, der ist mein Leben - Sacred Cantatas (Remast.) (2006/2023) [24/96]

Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe - Bach: Christus, der ist mein Leben - Sacred Cantatas (Remastered) (2006/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 62:36 minutes | 1,05 GB
Classical, Sacred, Vocal | Label: harmonia mundi, Official Digital Download

Although Bach had dreamt of establishing a ‘well-regulated church music’ since his early days, it was only between 1723 and 1750 that he finally had the chance to do so, as Kantor and Director Musices in Leipzig. Here he invented the ‘modern’ cantata, combining chorales and traditional biblical texts with arias and recitatives on freely composed texts. The four cantatas recorded by Philippe Herreweghe offer a magisterial demonstration of the transition from cantatas initially judged ‘too theatrical’ to a perfectly achieved form – as in the cantata BWV 84, among the very last to be written.

Bach: Ich Elender Mensch - Leipzig Cantatas (2014)  Music

Posted by peotuvave at Jan. 20, 2015
Bach: Ich Elender Mensch - Leipzig Cantatas (2014)

Bach: Ich Elender Mensch - Leipzig Cantatas (2014)
EAC Rip | Flac (Image + cue + log) | 1 CD | Full Scans | 293 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Phi | Catalog Number: 12

For the second time on the Phi label, Philippe Herreweghe presents four Bach cantatas written during the first year the composer spent in Leipzig. In relation to the repertoire composed in Weimar, the instrumentarium is enlarged to adapt to the size of the churches of Saint Thomas and Saint Nicholas. But, above all, the instrumental virtuosity is much greater, as are the vocal demands confronting the choirs and solo singers, trained at the time by Bach himself.
Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe - J.S.Bach: Ich elender Mensch & Leipzig Cantatas (2014) [Official Digital Download]

Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe - J.S.Bach: Ich elender Mensch & Leipzig Cantatas (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 68:15 minutes | 1.17 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

For the second time on the Phi label, Philippe Herreweghe presents four Bach cantatas written during the first year the composer spent in Leipzig. In relation to the repertoire composed in Weimar, the instrumentarium is enlarged to adapt to the size of the churches of Saint Thomas and Saint Nicholas. But, above all, the instrumental virtuosity is much greater, as are the vocal demands confronting the choirs and solo singers, trained at the time by Bach himself.