Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750 Cantatas Vol 14: New York SDG113 COVER SDG113 CD 71:17 For Christmas Day Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ BWV 91 Unser Mund sei voll Lachens BWV 110 For the Second Day of Christmas Dazu ist erschienen der Sohn Gottes BWV 40 Christum wir sollen loben schon BWV 121 CD 2 51:48 Katharine Fuge, Joanne Lunn sopranos Robin Tyson, William Towers altos C James Gilchrist tenor, Peter Harvey bass M Y The Monteverdi Choir K The English Baroque Soloists John Eliot Gardiner Live recordings from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage St Bartholomew’s, New York, 25 December 2000 Soli Deo Gloria Volume 14 SDG 113 P 2005 Monteverdi Productions Ltd C 2005 Monteverdi Productions Ltd www.solideogloria.co.uk Edition by Reinhold Kubik, Breitkopf & Härtel Manufactured in Italy LC13772 8 43183 01132 2 14 SDG 113 Bach Cantatas Gardiner Bach Cantatas Gardiner For Christmas Day The Monteverdi Choir The English Bass Sackbuts CD 71:17 For the Second Day of Christmas Baroque Soloists Valerie Botwright Adam Woolf alto Sopranos Abigail Newman tenor BWV Suzanne Flowers Flutes 1-6 (16:02) Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ 91 First Violins Steve Saunders bass Katharine Fuge Rachel Beckett BWV Kati Debretzeni 7-12 (18:04) Christum wir sollen loben schon 121 Joanne Lunn Neil McLaren Timpani Nicolette Moonen BWV Gillian Keith Adrian Bending 13-20 (14:32) Dazu ist erschienen der Sohn Gottes 40 Penelope Spencer Oboes Elin Manahan Thomas BWV Matthew Truscott Xenia Löffler Harpsichord 21-27 (22:16) Unser Mund sei voll Lachens 110 Charlotte Mobbs Debbie Diamond James Eastaway Silas John Standage Altos Mark Baigent Katharine Fuge soprano (BWV 91, 121), Joanne Lunn soprano (BWV 110) Second Violins Organ William Towers Peter Lissauer Bassoon Howard Moody Robin Tyson alto (BWV 91, 40), William Towers alto (BWV 121, 110) Robin Tyson Rodolfo Richter Philip Turbett Frances Jellard James Gilchrist tenor, Peter Harvey bass Jane Gillie James Burton Trumpets Deirdre Ward Gabriele Cassone Tenors Violas Paul Sharp The Monteverdi Choir Vernon Kirk Jane Rogers Mauro Bernasconi Robert Murray The English Baroque Soloists Katherine McGillivray Nicolas Robertson Horns Rosemary Nalden John Eliot Gardiner Gabriele Cassone Basses Cellos Martin Lawrence Julian Clarkson Alison McGillivray Live recording from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage Christopher Foster Catherine Rimer St Bartholomew’s, New York, 25 December 2000 Michael McCarthy Edward Caswell SDG113 BACK WALLET C M Y K For Christmas Day The Monteverdi Choir The English Bass Sackbuts CD 71:17 For the Second Day of Christmas Baroque Soloists Valerie Botwright Adam Woolf alto Sopranos Abigail Newman tenor BWV Suzanne Flowers Flutes 1-6 (16:02) Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ 91 First Violins Steve Saunders bass Katharine Fuge Rachel Beckett BWV Kati Debretzeni 7-12 (18:04) Christum wir sollen loben schon 121 Joanne Lunn Neil McLaren Timpani Nicolette Moonen BWV Gillian Keith Adrian Bending 13-20 (14:32) Dazu ist erschienen der Sohn Gottes 40 Penelope Spencer Oboes Elin Manahan Thomas BWV Matthew Truscott Xenia Löffler Harpsichord 21-27 (22:16) Unser Mund sei voll Lachens 110 Charlotte Mobbs Debbie Diamond James Eastaway Silas John Standage Altos Mark Baigent Katharine Fuge soprano (BWV 91, 121), Joanne Lunn soprano (BWV 110) Second Violins Organ William Towers Peter Lissauer Bassoon Howard Moody Robin Tyson alto (BWV 91, 40), William Towers alto (BWV 121, 110) Robin Tyson Rodolfo Richter Philip Turbett Frances Jellard James Gilchrist tenor, Peter Harvey bass Jane Gillie James Burton Trumpets Deirdre Ward Gabriele Cassone Tenors Violas Paul Sharp The Monteverdi Choir Vernon Kirk Jane Rogers Mauro Bernasconi Robert Murray The English Baroque Soloists Katherine McGillivray Nicolas Robertson Horns Rosemary Nalden John Eliot Gardiner Gabriele Cassone Basses Cellos Martin Lawrence Julian Clarkson Alison McGillivray Live recording from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage Christopher Foster Catherine Rimer St Bartholomew’s, New York, 25 December 2000 Michael McCarthy Edward Caswell SDG113 BACK WALLET C M Y K For Christmas Day The Monteverdi Choir The English Bass Sackbuts CD 71:17 For the Second Day of Christmas Baroque Soloists Valerie Botwright Adam Woolf alto Sopranos Abigail Newman tenor BWV Suzanne Flowers Flutes 1-6 (16:02) Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ 91 First Violins Steve Saunders bass Katharine Fuge Rachel Beckett BWV Kati Debretzeni 7-12 (18:04) Christum wir sollen loben schon 121 Joanne Lunn Neil McLaren Timpani Nicolette Moonen BWV Gillian Keith Adrian Bending 13-20 (14:32) Dazu ist erschienen der Sohn Gottes 40 Penelope Spencer Oboes Elin Manahan Thomas BWV Matthew Truscott Xenia Löffler Harpsichord 21-27 (22:16) Unser Mund sei voll Lachens 110 Charlotte Mobbs Debbie Diamond James Eastaway Silas John Standage Altos Mark Baigent Katharine Fuge soprano (BWV 91, 121), Joanne Lunn soprano (BWV 110) Second Violins Organ William Towers Peter Lissauer Bassoon Howard Moody Robin Tyson alto (BWV 91, 40), William Towers alto (BWV 121, 110) Robin Tyson Rodolfo Richter Philip Turbett Frances Jellard James Gilchrist tenor, Peter Harvey bass Jane Gillie James Burton Trumpets Deirdre Ward Gabriele Cassone Tenors Violas Paul Sharp The Monteverdi Choir Vernon Kirk Jane Rogers Mauro Bernasconi Robert Murray The English Baroque Soloists Katherine McGillivray Nicolas Robertson Horns Rosemary Nalden John Eliot Gardiner Gabriele Cassone Basses Cellos Martin Lawrence Julian Clarkson Alison McGillivray Live recording from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage Christopher Foster Catherine Rimer St Bartholomew’s, New York, 25 December 2000 Michael McCarthy Edward Caswell SDG113 BACK WALLET C M Y K The Bach Cantata Pilgrimage The Bach Cantata Pilgrimage The harpsichord used for the Recorded live at project, made by Andrew St Bartholomew’s, New York, On Christmas Day 1999 a unique celebration of Patron Wooderson, and the organ, on 25 December 2000, as part the new Millennium began in the Herderkirche His Royal Highness, made by Robin Jennings, were of the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage The Prince of Wales bought and generously made in Weimar, Germany: the Monteverdi Choir and available to the Monteverdi by Producer: Isabella de Sabata English Baroque Soloists under the direction Principal Donors Sir David and Lady Walker Balance engineer: The Dunard Fund (harpsichord) and Lord and Lady Everett Porter (Polyhymnia) of Sir John Eliot Gardiner set out to perform Mr and Mrs Donald Kahn Burns (organ). Recording engineers: all Johann Sebastian Bach’s surviving church The Kohn Foundation Carl Schuurbiers (Polyhymnia), Mr Alberto Vilar Our thanks go to the Bach Dirk Sobotka (Soundbyte NYC) cantatas in the course of the year 2000, the Cantata Pilgrimage committee, Tape editor: Sebastian Stein 250th anniversary of Bach’s death. Donors who worked tirelessly to raise Edition by Reinhold Kubik pub- Mrs Chapell enough money to allow us to lished by Breitkopf & Härtel The cantatas were performed on the liturgical Mr and Mrs Richard Davey complete the project, to the Series executive producer: feasts for which they were composed, in a year- Mrs Fairbairn Monteverdi staff, Polyhymnia’s Isabella de Sabata Ms Juliet Gibbs staff and, above all, to all the long musical pilgrimage encompassing some of Mr and Mrs Edward Gottesman singers and players who took Cover: Amdo, Tibet, 2001 the most beautiful churches throughout Europe Sir Edwin and Lady Nixon part in the project. © Steve McCurry/ Mr and Mrs David Quarmby Magnum Photos (including many where Bach himself performed) Sir Ian and Lady Vallance The Recordings Series design: Untitled and culminating in three concerts in New York Mr and Mrs Andrew Wong The release of the Bach Cantata Frontispiece: Catherine Rimer Pilgrimage recordings has been Booklet photos: over the Christmas festivities at the end of the Corporate Sponsors made possible by financial and Steve Forrest (p.4) millennial year. These recordings were made dur- Gothaer Versicherungen other support from His Royal Christopher Little (p.6) Bank of Scotland Highness the Prince of Wales, Übersetzung: Gudrun Meier ing the course of the Pilgrimage. Huth Dietrich Hahn Countess Yoko Ceschina, Rechtsanwälte Mr Kevin Lavery, The Nagaunee BWV 121 was recorded by PGGM Pensoenfonds Foundation and many others kind permission of Deutsche Data Connection who answered our appeal. We Grammophon Gesellschaft Jaffe Associates cannot name them all, but we Singer and Friedlander are enormously grateful to them. P 2005 The copyright in this For the help and advice in set- sound recording is owned by Charitable Foundations ting up Monteverdi Productions, Monteverdi Productions Ltd and Public Funds our thanks to: Lord Burns, C 2005 Monteverdi The European Commission Richard Elliston, Neil Radford Productions Ltd The Esmée Fairbairn Trust and Fiona Kinsella at Freshfields P.O. Box 46876 The David Cohen Family Bruckhaus Deringer, Thomas London SW11 2YD Charitable Trust Hoerner, The Foundation for Sport Chaz Jenkins, John Kennedy, www.solideogloria.co.uk and the Arts Stephen Revell, and Richard The Arts Council of England Schlagman and Amanda The Garfield Weston Foundation Renshaw of Phaidon Press. Lauchentilly Foundation The Woodcock Foundation The Monteverdi Society The Warden of the Goldsmiths’ Company Soli Deo Gloria SDG 113 ENDPAPERS The Bach Cantata Pilgrimage The Bach Cantata Pilgrimage The harpsichord used for the Recorded live at project, made by Andrew St Bartholomew’s, New York, On Christmas Day 1999 a unique celebration of Patron Wooderson, and the organ, on 25 December 2000, as part the new