Dunedin Consort, John Butt – J.S. Bach: Magnificat & Christmas Cantata (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Dunedin Consort, John Butt – J.S. Bach: Magnificat & Christmas Cantata (2015)
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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:

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

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