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Reviewer: John
W. Barker
The first work in this program
is the “Lutheran Mass” No. 1 in F, which, like the other three in the
sequence, sets only the Kyrie and Gloria and shares much music with Bach
cantatas. It runs under 23 minutes and is pleasant listening if a relative
trifle in Bach’s output. The second work is Bach’s Cantata 151, Susser Trost,
mein Jesu Kommt, composed for a Sunday after Christmas. It is dominated by
its opening section, a soprano aria ten minutes longt dwarfing a second aria
slightly over four minutes long; there are two recitatives and a final
chorale. Gardiner, we may note, has recorded this cantata before in his
“Cantata Pilgrimage” series.
Bach’s Magnificat is one of
the most familiar of his choral works, and Gardner has also recorded it in
its “standard” D-major form. Here he turns to the earlier E-flat version,
with its four interpolated Christmas texts. All through the program, as is
his custom, Gardiner has taken singers from his chorus and given them solos.
There are eight of them here, and they are generally excellent
singers—notably Morrison, with her very well-projected soprano tone.
Countertenor Mobly is given the largest number of assignments and carries
them out quite smoothly. The chorus and orchestra are up to Gardiner’s usual
high standards, but I find some of his interpretations in the Magnificat
questionable. He takes some of the Scripture text choruses at breakneck
speeds. He also understates the performances of the four interpolations and
has them recorded rather at a distance from the very forward positioning of
the full body. All in all, while this is a knowing presentation of this
alternate Magnificat by Bach, I do not consider it at all a “definitive”
statement.
Recorded in London in December
of 2016, this release is in every way an epilogue to the “Cantata
Pilgrimage” undertaking—the same book-bound album design with the same
(Inappropriate) cover design. Instead of notes, we are given a long Gardiner
discussion of his ideas for this latest effort. But there are full texts and
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