Bach: Motets
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Thirty years on from their acclaimed recording for Erato, Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir return to the Bach Motets in a new SDG recording, taken from a concert in London last year at the end of a tour which saw performances in Italy, France, The Netherlands and Germany.The Motets can be seen as some of Bach's most perfect and hypnotic compositions. Through their extraordinary complexity and density, they require exceptional virtuosity and sensitivity of all the performers.Each of them is endlessly fascinating, and each inhabits its own sound world, Bach's masterful use of canon, fugue and counterpoint, the brilliant exploitation of double-choir sonorities are perfectly matched by the Monteverdi Choir's virtuosity."If all the world's depressed people had somehow been squeezed into St John's to hear this concert, the pharmaceutical companies would be out of business. Who needs pills to lift the spirits when we have the six Bach motets, and John Eliot Gardiner's Monteverdi Choir to sing them?"The Times ***** "Lightness of touch and consistent momentum - the Monteverdi Choir was on supreme form"The Guardian *****""
Tracklisting
J.C.Bach
Monteverdi Choir:Gardiner
Monteverdi Choir/Gardner
Monteverdi Choir:Gardiner
Monteverdi Choir:Gardiner
Monteverdi Choir:Gardiner
Monteverdi Choir:Gardiner
Monteverdi Choir:Gardiner
Monteverdi Choir:Gardiner
Monteverdi Choir:Gardiner
Monteverdi Choir:Gardiner
Monteverdi Choir:Gardiner
Monteverdi Choir:Gardiner
Monteverdi Choir:Gardiner
Monteverdi Choir:Gardiner
Monteverdi Choir:Gardiner