john eliot gardiner bach cantata pilgrimage

Nor did we have the luxury of repeated performances in which to try out various solutions: at the end of each feast-day we had to put the outgoing trio or quartet of cantatas to the back of our minds and move on the the next clutch - which came at us thick and fast at peak periods such as Whitsun, Christmas and Easter. Although we had commissioned a new edition of the cantatas by Reinhold Kubik, incorporating the latest source findings, we were still left with many practical decisions to make over instrumentation, pitch, bass figuration, voice types, underlay and so on. Then to fit into a single evening cantatas for the same day composed by Bach over a forty-year span meant deciding on a single pitch (A = 415) for each programme, so that the early Weimar cantatas written at high organ pitch needed to be performed in the transposed version Bach adopted for their revival, real or putative, in Leipzig.

Compromises were sometimes needed to accommodate the quirks of the liturgical year (Easter falling exceptionally late in 2000 meant that we ran out of liturgical slots for the late Trinity season cantatas, so that they needed to be redistributed among other programmes). 'With weekly preparations leading to the performances of these extraordinary works, a working rhythm we sustained throughout a whole year, our approach was influenced by several factors: time (never enough), geography (the initial retracing of Bach’s footsteps in Thuringia and Saxony), architecture (the churches both great and small where we performed), the impact of one week’s music on the next and on the different permutations of players and singers joining and rejoining the pilgrimage, and inevitably, the hazards of weather, travel and fatigue. + 4 additional CDs previously released by Deutsche Grammophon. In 2000 John Eliot Gardiner commemorated the 250th anniversary of Bachs death with theBach Cantata Pilgrimage, a year-long European tour by the English Baroque Soloists and Monteverdi Choir. The set contains 56 audio CDs including All 28 existing volumes from our Bach Cantatas series (BWV 29, 53 & 157 do not feature as these have not been recorded / released on SDG) Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at. The CDs in the box are packed in individual sleeves with Steve McCurry’s evocative portrait photos from the existing series, so the “feel” of the collection will be much the same as the individual releases. 1: City of London by John Eliot Gardiner released in 2005. Recorded live during the Bach Cantata Pilgrimageįor the first time on one label, the complete live recordings from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage in an elegant box set.

John eliot gardiner bach cantata pilgrimage