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Building a Library: Hannah French listens to and compares recordings of Bach’s Ascension Oratorio ‘Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen‘ BWV 11.
Composed probably in 1735 for the feast of the Ascension, the text of Bach’s oratorio comprises several biblical sources, free poetry and chorales. It tells the narrative of Christ’s ascension to Heaven, as told in the Gospels of Luke and Mark, and in the Acts of the Apostles. As is often the case in Bach’s music, several of the movements from the Ascension Oratorio are re-workings of parts of earlier cantatas, while the alto aria was used again much later for the plangent Agnus Dei of his Mass in B minor.
Available versions:-
Jan Kobow , Gotthold Schwarz, Joanne Lunn, Elisabeth Jansson, Samuel Boden, Tobias Berndt, David Allsopp, Barockorchester Stuttgart, Kammerchor Stuttgart, Frieder Bernius
Ann Monoyios, Daniel Taylor, Frederick Urrey, Christòpheren Nomura, Bach Choir Of Bethlehem, Bach Festival Orchestra, Greg Funfgeld
Lenneke Ruiten, Meg Bragle, Andrew Tortise, Dietrich Henschel, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
Carolyn Sampson, Iestyn Davies, James Gilchrist, Petery Harvey, Retrospect Ensemble, Matthew Halls
Kurt Equiluz, Max van Egmond, Paul Esswood, Soloist of the Wiener Sängerknaben, Wiener Sängerknaben, Chorus Viennensis, Concentus musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Barbara Schlick, Catherine Patriasz, Christoph Prégardien & Peter Kooy, Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe *
William Herbert, William Parsons, Kathleen Ferrier, Ena Mitchell, Jacques Orchestra, Reginald Jacques
Neumeyer Consort & Gutenberg-Kammerchor, Felix Koch
Sandrine Piau, Johannette Zomer, Sibylla Rubens, Bogna Bartosz, Bernhard Landauer, James Gilchrist, Christoph Prégardien, Jörg Dürmüller, Klaus Mertens, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir, Ton Koopman
Siri Thornhill, Petra Noskaiova, Christoph Genz, Jan van der Crabben, La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken (SACD)
Martyn Hill, Stephen Roberts, Alfreda Hodgson, Margaret Marshall, Choir of King’s College Cambridge, English Chamber Orchestra, Sir Philip Ledger *
Christoph Prégardien, David Wilson-Johnson, Monika Frimmer, Ralf Popken, Choir Of The Age Of Enlightenment, Gustav Leonhardt *
Buckel, Engen, Fischer-Dieskau, Haefliger, Mathis, Moll, Reynolds, Schreier, Töpper, van Kesteren, Münchener Bach-Chor & Münchener Bach-Orchester, Karl Richter *
Costanza Cuccaro,, Mechthild Georg, Adalbert Kraus, Andreas Schmidt
Gächinger Kantorei, Stuttgart Choir, Stuttgart Bach Collegium Orchestra, Kammerorchester Heilbronn, Helmuth Rilling
Yukari Nonshita, Patrick van Goethem, Jan Kobow, Chiyuki Urano, Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki (SACD)
* = download only
Building a Library: Hannah French listens to and compares recordings of Bach’s Ascension Oratorio ‘Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen‘ BWV 11.
Composed probably in 1735 for the feast of the Ascension, the text of Bach’s oratorio comprises several biblical sources, free poetry and chorales. It tells the narrative of Christ’s ascension to Heaven, as told in the Gospels of Luke and Mark, and in the Acts of the Apostles. As is often the case in Bach’s music, several of the movements from the Ascension Oratorio are re-workings of parts of earlier cantatas, while the alto aria was used again much later for the plangent Agnus Dei of his Mass in B minor.
Available versions:-
Jan Kobow , Gotthold Schwarz, Joanne Lunn, Elisabeth Jansson, Samuel Boden, Tobias Berndt, David Allsopp, Barockorchester Stuttgart, Kammerchor Stuttgart, Frieder Bernius
Ann Monoyios, Daniel Taylor, Frederick Urrey, Christòpheren Nomura, Bach Choir Of Bethlehem, Bach Festival Orchestra, Greg Funfgeld
Lenneke Ruiten, Meg Bragle, Andrew Tortise, Dietrich Henschel, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
Carolyn Sampson, Iestyn Davies, James Gilchrist, Petery Harvey, Retrospect Ensemble, Matthew Halls
Kurt Equiluz, Max van Egmond, Paul Esswood, Soloist of the Wiener Sängerknaben, Wiener Sängerknaben, Chorus Viennensis, Concentus musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Barbara Schlick, Catherine Patriasz, Christoph Prégardien & Peter Kooy, Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe *
William Herbert, William Parsons, Kathleen Ferrier, Ena Mitchell, Jacques Orchestra, Reginald Jacques
Neumeyer Consort & Gutenberg-Kammerchor, Felix Koch
Sandrine Piau, Johannette Zomer, Sibylla Rubens, Bogna Bartosz, Bernhard Landauer, James Gilchrist, Christoph Prégardien, Jörg Dürmüller, Klaus Mertens, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir, Ton Koopman
Siri Thornhill, Petra Noskaiova, Christoph Genz, Jan van der Crabben, La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken (SACD)
Martyn Hill, Stephen Roberts, Alfreda Hodgson, Margaret Marshall, Choir of King’s College Cambridge, English Chamber Orchestra, Sir Philip Ledger *
Christoph Prégardien, David Wilson-Johnson, Monika Frimmer, Ralf Popken, Choir Of The Age Of Enlightenment, Gustav Leonhardt *
Buckel, Engen, Fischer-Dieskau, Haefliger, Mathis, Moll, Reynolds, Schreier, Töpper, van Kesteren, Münchener Bach-Chor & Münchener Bach-Orchester, Karl Richter *
Costanza Cuccaro,, Mechthild Georg, Adalbert Kraus, Andreas Schmidt
Gächinger Kantorei, Stuttgart Choir, Stuttgart Bach Collegium Orchestra, Kammerorchester Heilbronn, Helmuth Rilling
Yukari Nonshita, Patrick van Goethem, Jan Kobow, Chiyuki Urano, Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki (SACD)
* = download only
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