JS Bach: Easter Oratorio and Actus Tragicus

Monteverdi Choir,English Baroque Soloists,John Eliot Gardiner

JS Bach: Easter Oratorio and Actus Tragicus
Format
Audio
Publisher
Country
Published
25 March 2014
ISBN
0843183071920

JS Bach: Easter Oratorio and Actus Tragicus

Monteverdi Choir,English Baroque Soloists,John Eliot Gardiner

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.

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