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Motets BWV 225-230
Conducted by Konrad Junghänel with Cantus Cölln
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J.S. Bach: Motetten - Motets BWV 225-230 |
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Motets BWV 225-230 [12:04, 7:30, 18:20, 8:09, 8:01, 6:14] |
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Konrad Junghänel |
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Cantus Cölln |
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Sopranos: Johanna Koslowsky, Maria Cristina Kiehr; Alto: Elisabeth Popien; Counter-tenor: Bernhard Landauer; Tenors: Gerd Türk, Wilfried Jochens; Basses: Stephan Schreckenberger, Matthias Gerchen |
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Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 77368 |
Oct 19-23, 1995 |
CD / TT: 60:57 |
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Recorded at St. Osdag, Mandelsloh, Germany.
See: Motets - performed by Konrad Junghänel & Cantus Cölln
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Cantus Cölln Motets
Marcos Maffei wrote (May 29, 2001):
Thanks for everybody in this list who recommended the Cantus Cölln Motets CD!
I've just received it today, and it's incredibly, awesomely beautiful!
It's been ages since a recording with music that I already knew put me in such a state of rapture. (and so instantly and definitely made useless the other version I had of it - the one by Herreweghe, which is also very good and which I liked a lot, but... )
And of course, one of the reasons (but not the only one: it is so consistently and amazingly good... that I'm in a lack of words) is that it's OVPP.
Cantus Cölln is undoubtely the best argument for it, in practice (Andrew Parrot's book is very convincing; but his recordings not quite so...); also amazingly beautiful is their cantatas CD ("Actus tragicus", BWV 4, 12, 106 & 196; HMC 901694; and by the way, the motets cd is DHM 05472 77368).
But the point of this message is just this: if it weren't for this list, I wouldn't have noticed that Cantus Cölln had also recorded the motets, and wouldn't be right now listening (again, and again) to this marvellous recording!
So, thank you again (and again).
PS: By the way, is there any other Bach Cantus Cölln cd besides these two? Of course, I have some of their recordings of other composers - Biber&Muffat, Buxtehude, and Schutz - which are also very beautiful; but... I want more of their Bach!
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