Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Bach: Magnificat, Christmas Cantata (2015) [LINN FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Johann Sebastian Bach – Magnificat, Christmas Cantata – Dunedin Consort, John Butt (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:26:47 minutes | 1,76 GB | Genre: Classical
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Recorded: Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh, UK, 27-31 July 2014

Dunedin Consort recreates Bach’s first Christmas at Leipzig (Vespers in the Nikolaikirche, 25 December 1723); the recording opens with a Gabrieli motet and includes organ preludes and a seasonal congregational chorale. Director John Butt has given listeners an interpretation that will provide a refreshing outlook on this masterpiece and will show the Magnificat in a completely new light. This recording marks the return of Dunedin Consort’s star-studded cast including, Nicholas Mulroy, Matthew Brook, Joanne Lunn and Clare Wilkinson plus newcomer Julia Doyle.

Another bull’s-eye hit from John Butt’s Dunedin Consort. This newest liturgical reconstruction is of Bach’s first Christmas Vespers in Leipzig in December 1723, a rich service that included organ music, hymns, a cantata and Bach’s great Magnificat, in its early version with four little Christmas interpolations. There are interesting textual changes, the playing and singing are terrific, and Butt creates a very convincing congregational hymn with organ flourishes. But the highlight of the disc is the Christmas Cantata 63, brilliantly done with such expressive exuberance that it should have had (but certainly did not) the Leipzigers dancing in the aisles with joy at the arrival of their new Kapellmeister. -Nicolas Kenyon, The Observer

Tracklist:
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
01 – Organ Prelude: Vom Himmel kam, BWV 607 01:10
Giovanni Gabrieli (c.1554/1557-1612)
02 – Motet: Hodie Christus natus est a8 02:51
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
03 – Das Orgel-Büchlein: No. 2, Gott, durch deine Güte, BWV 600 00:59
Christen, atzet diesen Tag, BWV 63:
04 – I. Christen, atzet diesen Tag 05:21
05 – II. O selger Tag! 02:57
06 – III. Gott, du hast es wohl gefuget 07:26
07 – IV. So kehret sich nun heut 00:49
08 – V. Ruft und fleht den Himmel an 03:43
09 – VI. Verdoppelt euch demnach 01:02
10 – VII. Hochster, schau in Gnaden an 06:54
11 – Das Orgel-Buchlein: No. 8, Vom Himmel hoch, BWV 606 00:42
12 – Neu Leipziger Gesangbuch: Vom Himmel hoch 02:56
13 – Organ Prelude: Der Tag, der ist so freudenreich, BWV 605 01:41
14 – Congregational Pulpit Hymn: Ein Kindelein so loebelich 02:45
15 – Fuga sopra il Magnificat, BWV 733 (Meine Seele erhebet den Herren) 03:42
Magnificat in E-Flat Major, BWV 243a:
16 – I. Magnificat 02:55
17 – IIa. Et exsultavit 02:24
18 – IIb. Vom Himmel hoch 01:30
19 – III. Quia respexit 02:35
20 – IV. Omnes generationes 01:21
21 – Va. Quia fecit 01:43
22 – Vb. Freut euch und jubiliert 01:20
23 – VI. Et misericordia 03:30
24 – VIIa. Fecit potentiam 01:56
25 – VIIb. Gloria in excelsis Deo! 01:05
26 – VIII. Deposuit potentes 02:01
27 – IXa. Esurientes implevit bonis 03:17
28 – IXb. Virga Jesse 02:58
29 – X. Suscepit Israel 02:04
30 – XI. Sicut locutus est 01:24
31 – XII. Gloria 02:16
32 – Responsory, Collect, Blessing, Response to Blessing 02:55
33 – Das Orgel-Buchlein: Puer natus in Bethlehem, BWV 603 01:36
34 – Neu Leipziger Gesangbuch: Puer natus in Bethlehem 02:43

Personnel:
Dunedin Consort
John Butt, conductor
Julia Doyle, soprano
Joanne Lunn, soprano
Clare Wilkinson, mezzo-soprano
Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
Matthew Brook, bass-baritone

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