Christmas Oratorio (Weihnachts oratorium) - Bach at the Herdkirche in Weimar DVD

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Christmas Oratorio (Weihnachts oratorium) - Bach at the Herdkirche in Weimar DVD | 13,7 GB
Director: John Eliot Gardiner | Studio: TDK DVD-BACHHO | DVD9 | Dolby Digital 5.1 amp; DTS 5.1 | Untouched | Aspect ratio: 16:9 | Run Time: 198 min
Language(s) Available: German | Subtitle(s): German, English, French, Japanese
In the year 2000, John Eliot Gardiner set out on his Bach Cantata Pilgrimage, with the goal of performing all of Bach’s sacred cantatas in churches around Europe and in New York. Over a 52-week period, his orchestra, choir and soloists achieved this unique goal, with a fervour that was almost religious. Just before beginning his cantata performances, however, he performed the Christmas Oratorio in Weimar, in a beautiful church, on two days, as this work was originally performed. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio is among his most joyous music. Although not actually an oratorio - it is really a series of six cantatas - it was written for the 1734-1735 Christmas celebration in Leipzig. Curiously, to illustrate this, the most sacred of Christian celebrations, Bach chose to quot;parodyquot; many movements from secular cantatas. But he certainly made fine choices; this music is moving and unforgettable. Download the files immediately before they delete again the files.

Gardiner has a special touch with Bach’s music. He chooses excellent musicians and singers, uses reasonably-sized forces, and his tempi have the right balance between élan and introspection. This recording uses about a dozen musicians and a choir of about twenty, giving the music a very intimate feeling - this is light years away from the heavier performances of this work where a large choir drowns out the musicians.

The musicians are all excellent - one is delighted to hear the excellent oboist Marcel Poncelle, and to recognize many other familiar faces from Gardiner’s usual group of performers. The soloists are top-rate as well. Alto Bernarda Fink shines in her many solos, especially the long aria in the second part, Schlafe, mein liebster, where her voice shows incredible purity. Tenor Christoph Genz, who also serves as the evangelist, is also excellent - both in his arias and his recitatives. Soprano Claron McFadden has a very limited performance in this work; one can think that Bach did not have a very good soprano available at the time, and scored very few movement for soprano. Nevertheless, she has a beautiful voice; I would certainly like to here more of her. Bass Dietrich Henschel is very good, though he, too, has a much more limited role than the alto and tenor.

The choir is one of the high points in all of Gardiner’s Bach recordings. With a choir close to the size that Bach probably used, Gardiner seems to use the choir as a soloist - the texture is always rich and lush, and the choir sounds as if it were singing with one, unique voice.

The 26-minute documentary on Gardiner’s Cantata Pilgrimage at the end of the first disc is excellent, and shows how Gardiner developed such a mad project, but also shows how invested the musicians were in this tour. The first documentary shows rehearsals for the performances on this DVD, and is a shorter version of a BBC documentary which also appears on Gardiner’s Bach Cantatas DVD. The second documentary, which is actually another section of the same BBC film, Bach Revisited, presents Gardiner as he visits Saxony and Thuringia, visiting Bach’s school, the churches he performed in and other sites.

Gardiner is one of the finest interpreters of Bach’s vocal music, and this DVD shows this very well. Not only does the music come through with great subtlety and emotion, but the quality of each of the musicians and soloists is such that this performance is certainly one of the finest.

Casts:
Claron McFadden, soprano
Bernarda Fink, alto
Christoph Genz, tenor
Dietrich Henschel, bass
Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists,


Recorded: 23 amp; 27\12\1999 (live audience recording)
DVD Release Date: November 15, 2005

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