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Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750 Cantatas Vol 15: New York SDG127 COVER SDG127 CD 76:15 For the Third Day of Christmas Sehet, welch eine Liebe hat uns der Vater erzeiget BWV 64 Süßer Trost, mein Jesus kömmt BWV 151 Selig ist der Mann BWV 57 (For the Second Day of Christmas) Ich freue mich in dir BWV 133 Katharine Fuge, Gillian Keith, Joanne Lunn sopranos CD 2 51:48 Robin Tyson, William Towers altos James Gilchrist tenor, Peter Harvey bass C M The Monteverdi Choir Y The English Baroque Soloists K John Eliot Gardiner Live recording from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage St Bartholomew’s, New York, 27 December 2000 Soli Deo Gloria Volume 15 SDG 127 P 2006 Monteverdi Productions Ltd C 2006 Monteverdi Productions Ltd www.solideogloria.co.uk Edition by Reinhold Kubik, Breitkopf & Härtel Manufactured in Italy LC13772 8 43183 01272 5 15 SDG 127 Bach Cantatas Gardiner Bach Cantatas Gardiner CD 76:15 For the Third Day of Christmas The Monteverdi Choir The English Flute/Recorder 1-8 (17:39) Sehet, welch eine Liebe hat uns der Vater erzeiget BWV 64 Baroque Soloists Rachel Beckett Sopranos 9-13 (17:07) Süßer Trost, mein Jesus kömmt BWV 151 Suzanne Flowers First Violins Oboes 14-21 (22:56) Selig ist der Mann BWV 57 Katharine Fuge Kati Debretzeni Xenia Löffler Joanne Lunn Nicolette Moonen James Eastaway (For the Second Day of Christmas) Gillian Keith Penelope Spencer Mark Baigent Elin Manahan Thomas Matthew Truscott 22-27 (18:15) Ich freue mich in dir BWV 133 Bassoon Charlotte Mobbs Deborah Diamond Philip Turbett Altos Second Violins Gillian Keith soprano BWV 64, 151 Trumpets William Towers Peter Lissauer Gabriele Cassone Joanne Lunn soprano BWV 57, Katharine Fuge soprano BWV 133 Robin Tyson Rodolfo Richter Paul Sharp Frances Jellard Jane Gillie Robin Tyson alto BWV 64, 133, William Towers alto BWV 151 Mauro Bernasconi James Burton Deirdre Ward James Gilchrist tenor, Peter Harvey bass Sackbuts Tenors Violas Adam Woolf alto Vernon Kirk Jane Rogers Abigail Newman tenor Robert Murray Katherine McGillivray The Monteverdi Choir Stephen Saunders bass Nicolas Robertson Rosemary Nalden The English Baroque Soloists Timpani Basses Cellos Adrian Bending John Eliot Gardiner Julian Clarkson Alison McGillivray Christopher Foster Catherine Rimer Harpsichord Live recording from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage Michael McCarthy Silas John Standage Double Bass Edward Caswell St Bartholomew’s, New York, 27 December 2000 Valerie Botwright Organ Howard Moody SDG127 BACK WALLET C M Y K CD 76:15 For the Third Day of Christmas The Monteverdi Choir The English Flute/Recorder 1-8 (17:39) Sehet, welch eine Liebe hat uns der Vater erzeiget BWV 64 Baroque Soloists Rachel Beckett Sopranos 9-13 (17:07) Süßer Trost, mein Jesus kömmt BWV 151 Suzanne Flowers First Violins Oboes 14-21 (22:56) Selig ist der Mann BWV 57 Katharine Fuge Kati Debretzeni Xenia Löffler Joanne Lunn Nicolette Moonen James Eastaway (For the Second Day of Christmas) Gillian Keith Penelope Spencer Mark Baigent Elin Manahan Thomas Matthew Truscott 22-27 (18:15) Ich freue mich in dir BWV 133 Bassoon Charlotte Mobbs Deborah Diamond Philip Turbett Altos Second Violins Gillian Keith soprano BWV 64, 151 Trumpets William Towers Peter Lissauer Gabriele Cassone Joanne Lunn soprano BWV 57, Katharine Fuge soprano BWV 133 Robin Tyson Rodolfo Richter Paul Sharp Frances Jellard Jane Gillie Robin Tyson alto BWV 64, 133, William Towers alto BWV 151 Mauro Bernasconi James Burton Deirdre Ward James Gilchrist tenor, Peter Harvey bass Sackbuts Tenors Violas Adam Woolf alto Vernon Kirk Jane Rogers Abigail Newman tenor Robert Murray Katherine McGillivray The Monteverdi Choir Stephen Saunders bass Nicolas Robertson Rosemary Nalden The English Baroque Soloists Timpani Basses Cellos Adrian Bending John Eliot Gardiner Julian Clarkson Alison McGillivray Christopher Foster Catherine Rimer Harpsichord Live recording from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage Michael McCarthy Silas John Standage Double Bass Edward Caswell St Bartholomew’s, New York, 27 December 2000 Valerie Botwright Organ Howard Moody SDG127 BACK WALLET C M Y K CD 76:15 For the Third Day of Christmas The Monteverdi Choir The English Flute/Recorder 1-8 (17:39) Sehet, welch eine Liebe hat uns der Vater erzeiget BWV 64 Baroque Soloists Rachel Beckett Sopranos 9-13 (17:07) Süßer Trost, mein Jesus kömmt BWV 151 Suzanne Flowers First Violins Oboes 14-21 (22:56) Selig ist der Mann BWV 57 Katharine Fuge Kati Debretzeni Xenia Löffler Joanne Lunn Nicolette Moonen James Eastaway (For the Second Day of Christmas) Gillian Keith Penelope Spencer Mark Baigent Elin Manahan Thomas Matthew Truscott 22-27 (18:15) Ich freue mich in dir BWV 133 Bassoon Charlotte Mobbs Deborah Diamond Philip Turbett Altos Second Violins Gillian Keith soprano BWV 64, 151 Trumpets William Towers Peter Lissauer Gabriele Cassone Joanne Lunn soprano BWV 57, Katharine Fuge soprano BWV 133 Robin Tyson Rodolfo Richter Paul Sharp Frances Jellard Jane Gillie Robin Tyson alto BWV 64, 133, William Towers alto BWV 151 Mauro Bernasconi James Burton Deirdre Ward James Gilchrist tenor, Peter Harvey bass Sackbuts Tenors Violas Adam Woolf alto Vernon Kirk Jane Rogers Abigail Newman tenor Robert Murray Katherine McGillivray The Monteverdi Choir Stephen Saunders bass Nicolas Robertson Rosemary Nalden The English Baroque Soloists Timpani Basses Cellos Adrian Bending John Eliot Gardiner Julian Clarkson Alison McGillivray Christopher Foster Catherine Rimer Harpsichord Live recording from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage Michael McCarthy Silas John Standage Double Bass Edward Caswell St Bartholomew’s, New York, 27 December 2000 Valerie Botwright Organ Howard Moody SDG127 BACK WALLET C M Y K The Bach Cantata Pilgrimage The Bach Cantata Pilgrimage The harpsichord used for the Cantatas BWV 64 and 133 were Recorded live at project, made by Andrew recorded by kind permission of St Bartholomew’s, New York, On Christmas Day 1999 a unique celebration of Patron Wooderson, and the organ, made Deutsche Grammophon on 27 December 2000, as part the new Millennium began in the Herderkirche His Royal Highness, by Robin Jennings, were bought Gesellschaft of the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage The Prince of Wales and generously made available in Weimar, Germany: the Monteverdi Choir and to the Monteverdi by Sir David Producer: Isabella de Sabata English Baroque Soloists under the direction Principal Donors and Lady Walker (harpsichord) Balance engineer: Everett The Dunard Fund and Lord and Lady Burns (organ). Porter (Polyhymnia) of Sir John Eliot Gardiner set out to perform Mr and Mrs Donald Kahn Recording engineers: all Johann Sebastian Bach’s surviving church The Kohn Foundation Our thanks go to the Bach Carl Schuurbiers (Polyhymnia), Mr Alberto Vilar Cantata Pilgrimage committee, Dirk Sobotka (Soundbyte NYC) cantatas in the course of the year 2000, the who worked tirelessly to raise Tape editor: Ientje Mooij 250th anniversary of Bach’s death. Donors enough money to allow us to Edition by Reinhold Kubik Mrs Chappell complete the project, to the published by Breitkopf & Härtel The cantatas were performed on the liturgical Mr and Mrs Richard Davey Monteverdi staff, Polyhymnia’s Series executive producer: feasts for which they were composed, in a year- Mrs Fairbairn staff and, above all, to all the Isabella de Sabata Ms Juliet Gibbs singers and players who took long musical pilgrimage encompassing some of Mr and Mrs Edward Gottesman part in the project. Cover: Lhasa, Tibet, 1989. the most beautiful churches throughout Europe Sir Edwin and Lady Nixon Baby boy born to a nomadic Mr and Mrs David Quarmby The Recordings shepherd family © Steve (including many where Bach himself performed) Sir Ian and Lady Vallance The release of the Bach Cantata McCurry/Magnum Photos and culminating in three concerts in New York Mr and Mrs Andrew Wong Pilgrimage recordings has been Series design: Untitled made possible by financial and Frontispiece: Catherine Rimer over the Christmas festivities at the end of the Corporate Sponsors other support from His Royal Booklet photos: Steve Forrest millennial year. These recordings were made Gothaer Versicherungen Highness the Prince of Wales, (p.4), Bob Johnson courtesy of Bank of Scotland Countess Yoko Ceschina, St Bartholomew’s Church (p.6) during the course of the Pilgrimage. Huth Dietrich Hahn Mr Kevin Lavery, The Nagaunee Übersetzung: Gudrun Meier Rechtsanwaelte Foundation and many others PGGM Pensoenfonds who answered our appeal. We P 2006 The copyright in this Data Connection cannot name them all, but we sound recording is owned by Jaffe Associates are enormously grateful to them. Monteverdi Productions Ltd Singer and Friedlander For the help and advice in setting C 2006 Monteverdi up Monteverdi Productions, our Productions Ltd Charitable Foundations thanks to: Lord Burns, Richard Level 2, Hertsmere House and Public Funds Elliston, Neil Radford and Fiona 2 Hertsmere Road The European Commission Kinsella at Freshfields Bruckhaus London E14 4AB The Esmée Fairbairn Trust Deringer, Thomas Hoerner, The David Cohen Family Chaz Jenkins, John Kennedy, www.solideogloria.co.uk Charitable Trust Stephen Revell, and Richard The Foundation for Sport Schlagman and Amanda and the Arts Renshaw of Phaidon Press. The Arts Council of England The Garfield Weston Foundation Lauchentilly Foundation The Woodcock Foundation The Monteverdi Society The Warden of the Goldsmiths’ Company Soli Deo Gloria SDG 127 ENDPAPER The Bach Cantata Pilgrimage The Bach Cantata Pilgrimage The harpsichord used for the Cantatas BWV 64 and 133 were Recorded live at project, made by Andrew recorded by kind permission of St Bartholomew’s, New York, On Christmas Day 1999 a unique celebration of Patron Wooderson, and the organ, made Deutsche Grammophon on 27 December 2000, as part the new Millennium began in the Herderkirche His Royal Highness, by Robin Jennings, were bought Gesellschaft of the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage The Prince of Wales and generously made available in Weimar, Germany: the Monteverdi Choir and to the Monteverdi by Sir David Producer: Isabella de Sabata English Baroque Soloists under the direction Principal Donors and Lady Walker (harpsichord) Balance engineer: Everett The Dunard Fund and Lord and Lady Burns (organ).