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The Bach Choir Of Bethlehem, Christopher Jackson, Bach Festival Orchestra – Mendelssohn & Bach: Matthäus-Passion (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:05:19 minutes | 1,99 GB | Genre: Classical
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For nearly 74 years from the death of J.S. Bach in 1750 to Mendelssohn’s fifteenth birthday in 1824 the Matthäus Passion had all but disappeared. Young Mendelssohn’s prized birthday gift – a bespoke a copy of the Passion – was to change music history when five years later he mounted its first performance in the nineteenth century in Berlin. Today it is inconceivable to imagine music without Bach, but in the 1820s his music had been relegated to no more than the exercise-book for students of counterpoint. Turning often to Bach’s music after 1829, Mendelssohn performed the Passion again in Leipzig in 1841. Now in a romantic era with a symphonic sized orchestra and choir, he remodelled both the role of the Evangelist and soloists, compacting the Passion’s length by some 30 percent. After his death in 1847 Mendelssohn’s ‘edition’ of the Passion lay fallow with his heirs in London, his grandson eventually bequeathing it to the Bodleian Library in Oxford. A first complete reconstruction of Mendelssohn’s material by Malcolm Bruno and Caroline Ritchie is published in December 2023 by Bärenreiter Verlag, and the first recording by the Bach Choir of Bethlehem to be released in March 2024 on the Analekta label.
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The Bach Choir of Bethlehem & Greg Funfgeld – J.S. Bach: Cantata BWV 21 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:01 minutes | 814 MB | Genre: Classical
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The oldest Bach choir in the United States, The Bach Choir of Bethlehem celebrates its 120th birthday in 2018. Since its founding in 1898, the now famous choir has attracted thousands of visitors from across the United States and beyond to the annual Bethlehem Bach Festival in Pennsylvania. Cantata BWV 21, Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis, was composed for various occasions between 1713 and 1714; with nearly every performance it was expanded by additional movements.
It should be noted that this recording frames the Bach cantata with two exquisite arias. With Daniel Taylor, Cassandra Lemoine, Rosa Lamoreaux, Benjamin Butterfield, William Sharp & The Bach Festival Orchestra, directed by Greg Funfgeld, this production is grandiose!
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The Bach Choir of Bethlehem & Greg Funfgeld – Handel: Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 49:21 minutes | 871 MB | Genre: Classical
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Celebrating its 120th birthday in 2018, the Bach Choir of Bethlehem is the oldest Bach choir in the United States, attracing thousands of visitors to Pennsyvania’s annual Bethlehem Bach Festival. The Ode for Saint Cecilia’s Day was composed between September 15 and 24, 1739, and features instrumental pieces, arias, choruses and recitatives. The Choir is joined by Cassandra Lemoine, Benjamin Butterfield, and the Bach Festival Orchestra.
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