Fritz Lehmann

Bach: Nine Sacred Cantatas (3CD)

The complete cantata recordings of a Bach conductor who defined performance standards of these works in his day, newly remastered and compiled together for the first time on CD.

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The sequence of cantata recordings which he made between 1950 and 1952 for DG’s then-new Archiv imprint of early and Baroque music.

The Berlin Motettenchor is a superbly disciplined vocal ensemble of evidently young voices and from the ranks of the Berliner Philharmoniker come obbligato instrumental solos of an eloquence still to rival any recording in the catalogue.

TRACK LIST

CD 1
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 1
Christ lag in Todesbanden, BWV 4
Es erhub sich ein Streit, BWV 19*

CD 2
Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis BWV 21*
Gott der Herr ist Sonn’ und Schild, BWV 79*
Meine Seele rühmt und preist, BWV 189*

CD 3
Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brot, BWV 39*
Herr, gehe nicht ins Gericht, BWV 105*
Vergnügte Ruh’, beliebte Seelenlust, BWV 170

Berliner Motettenchor
Berliner Philharmoniker
Fritz Lehmann

*FIRST CD RELEASE ON DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON