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J.S. Bach - Magnificat / Argenta, Kwella, Brett, Rolfe-Johnson, Thomas / "Jauchzet Gott In Allen Landen" / Emma Kirkby, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner / Hungaroton 1985 LP
SLPDL 31068
Johann Sebastian Bach's Magnificat, BWV 243, is a musical setting of the biblical canticle Magnificat. It is scored for five vocal parts (two sopranos, alto, tenor and bass), and a Baroque orchestra including trumpets and timpani. It is the first major liturgical composition on a Latin text by Bach.
In 1723, after taking up his post as Thomaskantor in Leipzig, Bach set the text of the Magnificat in a twelve movement composition in the key of E-flat major. For a performance at Christmas he inserted four hymns (laudes) related to that feast. This version, including the Christmas interpolations, was given the number 243.1 (previously 243a) in the catalogue of Bach's works.
Likely for the feast of Visitation of 1733, or another feast in or around that year, Bach produced a new version of his Latin Magnificat, without the Christmas hymns: instrumentation of some movements was altered or expanded, and the key changed from E-flat major to D major, for performance reasons of the trumpet parts. This version of Bach's Magnificat is known as BWV 243.2 (previously BWV 243).
After publication of both versions in the 19th century, the second became the standard for performance. It is one of Bach's most popular vocal works.
A Magnificat (BWV 243) Johann Sebastian Bach 12-tételes latin nyelvű liturgikus zeneműve. Egy korai és egy későbbi változata létezik, utóbbit gyakrabban játsszák és összességében Bach egyik legnépszerűbb zeneműve.
Tracklist:
| Magnificat BWV 243 | 25:46 | ||
| A1 | No. 1 Kórus: Magnificat Anima Mea | 2:48 | |
| A2 | No. 2 Ária (Szoprán II): Et Exsultavit Spiritus Meus | 2:17 | |
| A3 | No. 3 Ária (Szoprán I): Quia Respexit Humilitatem | 2:13 | |
| A4 | No. 4 Kórus: Omnes Generationes | 1:10 | |
| A5 | No. 5 Ária (Basszus): Quia Fecit Mihi Magna | 2:00 | |
| A6 | No. 6 Ária (Kettös; Alt, Tenor): Et Misericordia | 3:45 | |
| A7 | No. 7 Kórus: Fecit Potentiam | 1:44 | |
| A8 | No. 8 Ária (Tenor): Deposuit Potentes | 1:46 | |
| A9 | No. 9 Ária (Alt): Esurientes Implevit Bonis | 2:48 | |
| A10 | No. 10 Ária (Hármas; Szoprán I, Alt, Szoprán II): Suscepit Israel |
2:02 | |
| A11 | No. 11 Kórus: Sicut Locutus Est | 1:23 | |
| A12 |
No. 12 Kórus: Gloria Patri | 2:11 | |
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51. Kantáta "Jauchzet Gott In Allen Landen" - BWV 51 |
15:39 |
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| B1 | No. 1 Ária: Jauchzet Gott | 4:04 | |
| B2 | No. 2 Recitativo: Wir Beten Zu Dem Tempel An | 1:52 | |
| B3 | No. 3 Ária: Höchster, Mache Deine Güte | 4:14 | |
| B4 | No. 4 Korál: Sei Lob Und Preis Mit Ehren | 3:28 | |
| B5 | No. 5 (Ária): Alleluja | 2:00 |
- Alto Vocals – Charles Brett (tracks: A1 to A12)
- Bass Vocals – David Thomas (9) (tracks: A1 to A12)
- Bass Vocals [Choir] – Charles Stewart (2), Lawrence Wallington, Richard Suart, Stephen Charlesworth (2)
- Bassoon – Alastair Mitchell, Andrew Watts (2)
- Cello – Angela East, Julie Lehwalder, Richard Tunnicliffe, Suki Towb, Timothy Mason
- Cello [Continuo] – Angela East, Timothy Mason
- Choir – Monteverdi Choir
- Composed By – J.S. Bach
- Conductor – John Eliot Gardiner
- Countertenor Vocals [Choir] – Ashley Stafford, Brian Gordon (2), Julian Clarkson, Michael Chance, Wilfred Swansborough
- Double Bass – Amanda MacNamara, Valerie Botwright
- Flute – Guy Williams (2), Lisa Beznosiuk, Utako Ikeda
- Flute, Soloist – Guy Williams (2), Lisa Beznosiuk (tracks: A9), Utako Ikeda (tracks: A6, A10)
- Illustration – Leonardo Da Vinci
- Liner Notes – Clifford Bartlett
- Liner Notes [French Translation], Liner Notes [French Translation Of The Text Bwv 51] – Jacques Lasserre
- Liner Notes [German Translation] – Brigitte Sydow-Saak
- Liner Notes [Italian Translation] – Patrizia Moggi
- Oboe – Paul Goodwin (2), Richard Earle, Sophia McKenna, Valerie Darke
- Oboe Da Caccia, Soloist – Richard Earle
- Oboe d'Amore, Soloist – Sophia McKenna, Valerie Darke
- Orchestra – English Baroque Soloists
- Organ – Alastair Ross
- Organ [Continuo] – Alastair Ross
- Soprano Vocals [Choir] – Carol Hall (2), Emma Kirkby (tracks: B1 to B5), Gill Ross, Gillian Fisher, Jane Fairfield, Jean Knibbs, Lucinda Houghton, Marilyn Troth, Mary Seers, Nicola Jenkin, Sarah Leonard (2), Suzanne Flowers
- Soprano Vocals [❘] – Nancy Argenta (tracks: A1 to A12)
- Soprano Vocals [❘❘] – Patrizia Kwella (tracks: A1 to A12)
- Tenor Vocals – Anthony Rolfe-Johnson (tracks: A1 to A12)
- Tenor Vocals [Choir] – Andrew Murgatroyd, Howard Milner, Nicolas Robertson, William Pool
- Timpani – Tristan Fry
- Trumpet – Crispian Steele-Perkins, David Staff, Stephen Keavy
- Trumpet, Soloist – Crispian Steele-Perkins (tracks: B1 to B5)
- Viola – Annette Isserlis, Jan Schlapp, Katharine Hart*, Nicola Cleminson
- Violin [1st] – Alison Bury, Desmond Heath, Helen Orsler, Hildburg Williams, Miles Golding, Nicholas Parker, Susan Carpenter-Jacobs
- Violin [2nd] – Alison Townley, Bruce Berg, Graham Cracknell, Henrietta Wayne, Julie Miller (2), Roy Goodman
- Violin, Soloist – Alison Bury, Roy Goodman
