Easter Oratorio / Actus tragicus
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J. S. BACH
Easter Oratorio / Actus tragicus
Hannah Morrison (soprano), Meg Bragle (mezzo), Nicholas Mulroy (tenor) & Peter Harvey (bass) / English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
[ Soli Deo Gloria / CD ]
Release Date: Tuesday 10 June 2014
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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.
"What an exuberant, rich and dancing paean of praise and thanksgiving this is in the hands of Gardiner and his musicians...This is an outstanding addition to Gardiner's Bach discography." (MusicWeb)
"Gardiner has a judicious sense of the pulse of this music, and his singers and instrumentalists draw their colouring, phrasing and textural inflections from the music's natural contours and expressive implications." (Daily Telegraph)
