JS Bach: Himmelfahrts-Oratorium

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JS Bach: Himmelfahrts-Oratorium (BWV 11).
Recorded live at the Church of St. Nikolai, Leipzig (May 2004) Published in DVD Video by EuroArts. Interpreted by La Petite Bande directed by Sigiswald Kuijken . Like the players, enjoy the introduction choir 'Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen' (One Voice Per Part)

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  • Logisch es gibt kein Worter für dieses himlisch schöne Musik.

  • Awesome. I really enjoyed the period instruments. Trumpets were the best.  Great job!

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  • Madeuf et al with their natural trumpets are incredibly bold and it's admirable. But I can't help thinking I'm willing to sacrifice a bit of historical authenticity for the sake of intonation. There's an especially sour chord in 0:18 and it's just unpleasant to hear. Maybe when they've truly mastered herunterreiben they should use them, but for now, I think I'm in favour of vent holes.

  • Lovely cantata but i prefer bigger choir in this opening chorus.

  • the instruments, when they are confonted with a regular choir, they switch back a bit. but with the soloists they feel on equal footing.

  • Wunderbar!

  • @PeriodinstrumentfaN Hi! I don't know exactly what instrument was used by Thibaud Robinne (1st trumpet) but Jean-Francois Madeuf used in the first part of the concert (Ch.P.E.Bach) his copy of an english natural trumpet by Graham Nicholson (the one in this extract is one of his many trumpets, but he also plays sometimes an original instrument from 1st half of 18th century) Nicholson himself as 3rd trumpeter in this recording plays one of his own copies.

  • @GBADCD well I would not dare to say, that he is an Iditot or ridiculous!!!! There's evidence, for both positions! So maybe Bach used just 4 singers in the "normal" sunday cantatas and more on festive days? How about that? And so far a choir with 30 people are also not what Bach had in his mind. He had also not more than 3 singers per voice! And also Bach didn't use 12 violins! So concerts by Herreweghe or Koopman sound nice but really historical I wouldn't call them too!

  • @richie132 And if you want to hear excellente performance of the "Himmlfahrts Oratorium" buy a CD of Herreweghe and Gustav Leonhardt. Now that's BACH.

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