CD:
Bach: Cantatas – Thomanerchor Leipzig, Schwarz

Accentus Music releases the first in a series of new CD recordings with the Thomanerchor Leipzig and Thomaskantor Gotthold Schwarz.

“Dealing with the Bach cantatas is a lifelong and wonderful task and challenge. Despite decades of experience with the works, new aspects are being discovered every day,” says Gotthold Schwarz, 17th Thomaskantor after Johann Sebastian Bach.

The cantatas on this first recording of the Thomanerchor Leipzig under the musical direction of Schwarz, speak about the human certainty of being secure in/with God (BWV 17: “How a father has mercy on his young children”) and the confidence that God will deliver man from all trouble (BWV 33: “I call on thee in whom I trust”). There is no better credo that the Thomanerchor Leipzig and their Thomaskantor could base their joint path on.

J. S. Bach
Cantatas
„Allein zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ“ Cantata, BWV 33
„Wer Dank opfert, der preiset mich“, BWV 17
„Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan“, BWV 99

Thomanerchor Leipzig
Thomaskantor Gotthold Schwarz

Julia Sophie Wagner, Sopran
Stefan Kahle, Altus
Wolfram Lattke, Tenor
Tobias Berndt, Bass
Sächsisches Barockorchester

ACC30471
EAN: 4260234831849

Worldwide release in December 2018/January 2019

Accentus Music is recording all six cantatas of Bach’s “Christmas Oratorio” this December with the Thomanerchor Leipzig, Gotthold Schwarz, the Gewandhausorchester and an internationally renowned ensemble of soloists. In February 2019, a new recording of Bach’s most famous Motets will follow. Both productions will be released in fall 2019.

Recording date october 2018
Composer Johann Sebastian Bach
Choir Thomanerchor Leipzig
Conductor Gotthold Schwarz
Soloist Julia Sophie Wagner, Stefan Kahle, Wolfram Lattke, Tobias Berndt