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| Bach: Christmas Oratorio | 
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| Artist: King's College Choir
Creator: J.s. Bach
Label: EMI Classics
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 67567
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 5099921762529
ASIN: B001EZ1H0C
Release Date: November 11, 2008
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Jauchzet, frohlocket!:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Es begab sich aber zu der Zeit:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Nun wird mein liebster Braeutigam:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Bereite dich, Zion:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Wie soll ich dich empfangen:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Und sie gebar ihren ersten Sohn:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Er ist auf Erden kommen arm:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Grosser Herr und starker Koenig:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Ach mein herzliebes Jesulein!:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Sinfonia:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Und es waren Hirten:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Brich an, o schoenes Morgenlicht:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Und der Engel sprach:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Was Gott dem Abraham verheissen:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Frohe Hirten, eilt:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Und das habt zum Zeichen:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Schaut hin!:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Sp geht denn hin!:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Schlafe, mein Liebster:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Und alsobald war da bei dem Engel:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Ehre sei Gott in der Hoehe:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | So recht, ihr Engel:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Wir singen dir in deinem Heer:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Herrscher des Himmels:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Und da die Engel von ihnen gen Himmel:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Lasset uns nun gehen gen Bethlehem:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Er hat sein Volk getroest't:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Dies hat er alles uns getan:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Herr, dein Mitleid, dein Erbarmen:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Und sie kamen eilend:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Schliesse, mein Herze:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Ja, ja, mein Herz soll es bewahren:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Ich will dich mit Fleiss bewahren:- Christmas Oratorio |
Disc 2
| • | Und die Hirten:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Seid froh dieweil:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Herrscher des Himmels (rpt):- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Fallt mit Danken:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Und da acht Tage:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Immanuel, o suesses Wort!:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Floesst, mein Heiland:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Wohlan! Dein Name soll allein:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Ich will nur dir zu Ehren leben:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Jesus richte mein Beginnen:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Ehre sei dir, Gott, gesungen:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Da Jesus geboren:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Wo ist der neugeborene Koenig der Jueden?:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Dein Glanz all' Finsternis verzehrt:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Erleucht' auch meine finstre Sinnen:- Christmas Ortorio | | • | Da das der Koenig Herodes:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Warum wollt ihr erschrecken?:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Und liess versammeln alle Hohenpriester:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Ach! Wann wird die Zeit erscheinen?:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Mein Liebster herrschet schon:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Zwar ist solche Herzensstube:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Herr, wenn die stolzen Feinde:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Da berief Herodes:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Du Falsche, suche nur den Herrn zu faellen:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Nur ein Wink:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Als sie nun den Koenig:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Ich steh an deiner Krippen hier:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Und Gott befahl ihnen im Traum:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | So geht! genug, mein Schatz:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Nun moegt ihr stolzen Feinde:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Was will der Hoellen Schrecken nun:- Christmas Oratorio | | • | Nun seid ihr wohl gerochen:- Christmas Oratorio |
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Album Description
The Gemini Series features an impressive roster of singers, conductors, soloists, and ensembles of international renown, all from the incomparable EMI Classics stable. EMI's rich legacy of recording expertise comes to the fore in performances from the 1960s to the 1990s. Gemini titles are predominantly collections of single composers and fantastic value with well over an hour of music on each CD, making them the ideal place to start or develop a collection of classical music. Each 2-CD set contains over two hours of music for a fantastically low price. Attractively designed and packaged in space-saving brilliant boxes, each set includes three-language booklets with detailed notes on the music. This release of 10 new Gemini titles will bring the total number of titles in the series to 175. As with previous Gemini releases, this installment includes many recordings new to CD and as well as recordings that have been transferred from Double Forte. Among the excellent releases in this new set are performances by Placido Domingo, Natalie Dessay, Deborah Voigt, Janet Baker, Jean-Philippe Collard, Simon Rattle, Michel Plasson, Claudio Abbado, and others! These titles have been digitally remastered to the highest standards at the world famous Abbey Road Studios.
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Another real music gem from the Kings College Cambridge Catalog November 22, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Fans of the great, distinguished British choral tradition can rejoice at this re-release of an older EMI recording at even less expensive prices. Here we get Sir Philip Ledger leading the Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields, with Kings College Cambridge, plus four outstanding oratorio soloists. The soprano is justly renowned Dutch singer, Elly Ameling. The mezzo/alto is the entirely regal Dame Janet Baker. Tenor Robert Tear has earned his chops in oratorio, to say the least about his EMI history. Rounding off the quartet is perhaps the greatest baritone of the past century, German Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Now welcome this release to the existing line of grand, elegant Kings College Cambridge performances which are available again. Add Haydn's Creation (sung in English), and Handel's Messiah (also sung in English - In that Messiah, the soprano arias are taken by the choir trebles who sing everything superbly, in unison !!!!!). The Creation has Heather Harper, John Shirley-Quirk, and Robert Tear for soloists. Amazingly, given that the choir is a college chapel choir, the choral singing in all three recordings is well nigh impeccable.
One of the really nice things about music in this holiday season must be the continuing fact that we are suffering an embarrassment of musical riches when it comes to available recordings of this oratorio. One can find very nice big band versions, even if the approach to HIP Baroque style is distinctly old-fashioned. Search for Flamig (Arleen Auger), Jochum (Ameling), Peter Schreier (Helen Donath). One can find reduced musical forces, varying in style and technique from old-fashioned to influenced-updated via historical instrument practices, albeit on modern instruments. Search for Karl Munchinger, Karl Richter, Helmuth Rilling, Greg Funfgeld in Pennsylvania's Bethlehem Bach Festival, and this one with Philip Ledger. One can find brilliant and rewarding original instrument versions, quite a few in fact. Search for Rene Jacobs, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Ton Koopman, Maasaki Suzuki, Ralf Otto, Jos van Veldhoven with Netherlands Bach Society, Philippe Herreweghe, Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden, Julian Wachner.
Given such a large catalog, one risks letting this particular release get lost in the many choices that go blurry all together in a flurry of these crowded options. But that would really be a pity. Among the wonders of this set are Sir Philip Ledger's utterly congenial naturalness as a leader. He has no extremes or oddities of tempo to carry him off into the north forty ditches, too slow or too brisk. He has no inflated musical ego to make him want to make the event his own advertisement billboard. He consistently shapes clear musical textures where sonority balances with energy and breathing polyphony. The chapel choir from Cambridge is sure-footed and easeful beyond all their calendar years, as if we could find absolutely nothing amazing about such high musical excellence - except that maybe the music always shine through, illuminating. The soloists are so very fine that few would disagree with having them along for the whole ride through all six cantatas.
The sum of all these talents is greater than sheer mechanical addition predicts.
I can enjoy the others, too. But this one will probably never wear out, or wear thin. And just in time for our winter festivals, no matter how you choose to celebrate.
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