Motet BWV.225-230, etc : Gardiner / English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir (2011)

J.S.Bach: Motets, BWV225-230
Recorded live in London, St John’s Smith Square, 2011

Lobet den Herrn alle Heiden, BWV230
Komm Jesu komm, BWV229
Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf, BWV226
Jesu meine Freude, BWV227
Furchte dich nicht ich bin bei dir, BWV228
Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, BWV225
Ich lasse dich nicht du segnest mich denn!, BWV Anh III 159

Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

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.

The album is packaged in a hard back book similar to our other releases. It contains 44 pages booklet with original notes by John Eliot Gardiner and texts in German, English and French.