Easter Oratorio
classical CD · categorised by title
RRP £15.20 historic list price — see live Amazon pricing below
- Performers
- Monteverdi Choir:Gardner
- Label
- Sdg
- Barcode
- 0843183071920
Product Description This album follows the acclaimed release of the Ascension Oratorio. It features soloists Hannah Morrison (soprano), Meg Bragle (mezzo), Nicholas Mulroy (tenor), Peter Harvey (bass). The Easter Oratorio, one of the less performed of Bach's choral works, was first composed as a simple cantata and later revised to become a more polished piece with a meditative emphasis. Actus tragicus, composed for a funeral, has an unusually soft toned instrumentation (recorders, viola da gamba and organ) which make it sound both consoling and full of optimism. The album is packaged in our usual casebook packaging and contains a 28 pages booklet with notes by John Eliot Gardiner and texts in German, English and French. In March 2014, the Monteverdi Choir will be celebrating its 50th Anniversary. Review Music to combat grief is John Eliot Gardiner's apt description of Bach's Actus Tragicus, coupled on this CD with a timely performance of the Easter Oratorio. Gardiner's long, in-depth experience of Bach's music has been manifest over the past decade through the many SDG recordings emanating from his Bach Pilgrimage in 2000 with the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque soloists. This, however, is a completely new recording, made in June last year. The Actus Tragicus is comparatively early Bach, but it is thoroughly mature in the range of penetrating emotions that Gardiner and his forces fully and poignantly explore here. If the chorus is assigned the upbeat role in the first nu
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