Artist: Jos van Veldhoven, The Netherlands Bach Society
Title Of Album: J.S.Bach: Magnificat
Year Of Release: 2010
Label: Channel Classics Records B.V.
Country: Netherlands
Genre: Classical Music, Christmas
Quality: FLAC (*tracks, d.booklet)
Bitrate: Lossless [24Bit/192kHz]
Time: 64:21
Full Size: 2,03 GB

All the music on this release is associated with the festival of Christmas. Bach wrote the cantata Unser Mund sei voll Lachens (BWV 110) for morning service on Christmas Day 1725, and the first version of the Magnificat in E flat major (BWV 243a) for Vespers on Christmas Day 1723, seven months after the Leipzig town council appointed him cantor of the Thomaskirche. It would hardly be exaggerating to say that Bach thus presented his visiting card to his new employer. According to the Bach scholar Christoph Wolff, the work is his "first really large-scale and complex piece of church music".

This is terrific Bach singing and playing, and even if you already own one or two or three Magnificats, you won't be sorry to add this one--so vibrant and fresh-sounding, and possessed of the hopeful, optimistic spirit of the texts and music. And the sound, well, Channel Classics has a lock on whatever combination of technical know-how and magic is involved in making consistently demonstration-quality recordings. Don't hesitate to include this in your holiday-season acquisitions. Highly recommended.

Tracklist:
01 - Unser Mund sei voll Lachens (bwv 110) - Unser Mund sei voll Lachens
02 - Unser Mund sei voll Lachens (bwv 110) - Ihr Gedanken und ihr Sinnen
03 - Unser Mund sei voll Lachens (bwv 110) - Dir, Herr, ist niemand gleich
04 - Unser Mund sei voll Lachens (bwv 110) - Ach Herr, was ist ein Menschenkind
05 - Unser Mund sei voll Lachens (bwv 110) - Ehre sei Gott in der H?he
06 - Unser Mund sei voll Lachens (bwv 110) - Wacht auf, ihr Adern und ihr Glieder
07 - Unser Mund sei voll Lachens (bwv 110) - Alleluja! Gelobt sei Gott
08 - Magnificat in D major (bwv 243) - Magnificat anima mea Dominum
09 - Magnificat in D major (bwv 243) - Et exsultavit spiritus meus
10 - Magnificat in D major (bwv 243) - Hoe schoon lichtet de morghen ster
11 - Magnificat in D major (bwv 243) - Quia respexit humilitatem
12 - Magnificat in D major (bwv 243) - Omnes generationes
13 - Magnificat in D major (bwv 243) - Quia fecit mihi magna
14 - Magnificat in D major (bwv 243) - Currite, pastores
15 - Magnificat in D major (bwv 243) - Et misericordia
16 - Magnificat in D major (bwv 243) - Fecit potentiam
17 - Magnificat in D major (bwv 243) - O Jesulein, mein Jesulein
18 - Magnificat in D major (bwv 243) - Deposuit potentes
19 - Magnificat in D major (bwv 243) - Esurientes implevit bonis
20 - Magnificat in D major (bwv 243) - Ehre sei Gott in der H?he
21 - Magnificat in D major (bwv 243) - Suscepit Israel
22 - Magnificat in D major (bwv 243) - Sicut locotus est
23 - Magnificat in D major (bwv 243) - Gloria Patri

Produced by Jos van Veldhoven, Paul Janse.
Recorded at Concert Hall, Tilburg, The Netherlands, in December 2009.
Recording Engineer & Mastering by Jared Sacks.

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Dorothee Mields - soprano 1
Johannette Zomer - soprano 2 (Magnificat)
William Towers - alto
Charles Daniels - tenor
Stephan MacLeod - bass
The Netherlands Bach Society - Conducted by Jos van Veldhoven.

DOWNLOAD LINKS: Jos van Veldhoven, The Netherlands Bach Society - J.S.Bach: Magnificat (2010) (HDtracks) FLAC