Bach: Cantatas Nos 47, 96, 114, 116, 148 & 169

Volume 9 in the series (the seventeenth and eighteenth Sundays after Trinity) presents a powerful programme recorded in Bach's resting place, the iconic Thomaskirche in Leipzig. The soloists include Nathalie Stutzmann, Mark Padmore, Christoph Genz and Gotthold Schwarz.

SDG159  137 minutes 53 seconds (2 discs)
'The centrepiece is, of course, Bach’s brilliant reworking of the Siciliano from the Concerto, BWV1053, and Gardiner takes this briskly enough for Stutzmann to shape the extensive embellishments withi ...
BBC Music Magazine
'That attention to detail and the determination that these were to be much more than a series of concerts goes a long way to explaining why this evolving series of recorded performances seem so often ...