{"product_id":"john-eliot-gardiner-bach-motets-bwv-225-231-cantatas-bwv-50-118","title":"John Eliot Gardiner- Bach: Motets BWV 225-231, Cantatas BWV 50 \u0026 118 (CD)","description":"\u003cp\u003eTaken together these motets and quasi-motets form one of the peaks of Bach's art as a composer of choral music. Compressed and complex, they make enormous demands on performers, requiring exceptional virtuosity, stamina and sensitivity to abrupt changes of mood and texture. Bach's characteristically skilful use of fugue, canon and counterpoint makes this music endlessly fascinating, but most of all these are works of emotional power, revealing Bach's compassionate nature, the dancing joy he takes in praising God, and his total certainty as he contemplates death. John Eliot Gardiner's extraordinary technical and interpretative skills ensure recognition of the motets and cantatas as some of the best of Bach. A key figure in today's musical landscape, John Eliot Gardiner has established a number of ensembles - both instrumental and vocal - that he directs in a wide-ranging repertoire. Baroque music, with which he first made his name, remains very important to him, particularly the works of Johann Sebastian Bach; he has even published a major biographical study of the composer, Music in the Castle of Heaven.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCD1- Komm, Jesu, komm, BWV 229\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eO Jesu Christ, mein's Lebens Licht, BWV 118\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDer Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf, BWV 226\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLobet den Herrn, alle Heiden, BWV 230\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSei Lob und Preis mit Ehren, BWV 231\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDer Gerechte kommt um\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFürchte dich nicht, ich bin bei dir, BWV 228\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCD2- Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSinget dem Herrn ein neues Lied, BWV 225 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNun ist das Heil und die Kraft, BWV 50 11.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Alliance - BT","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46984715731165,"sku":"190295543051","price":69.0,"currency_code":"CNY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/3833300-2582932.jpg?v=1762927903","url":"https:\/\/darksiderecords.myshopify.com\/products\/john-eliot-gardiner-bach-motets-bwv-225-231-cantatas-bwv-50-118","provider":"Darkside Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}