Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantatas volume 10 (Bach Cantata Pilgrimage series) SDG Audio CD (2-CD set)

Bach Cantatas Volume 10
Cantatas for the Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity and for the Feast of the Reformation

Joanne Lunn, William Towers, James Gilchrist, Peter Harvey

The Monteverdi Choir & The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

Alongside some magnificent, less well-known cantatas, this set contains two of Bach’s most famous works: the “Kreuzstab” Cantata BWV 56 for solo bass, expressing the desire to relieve Christ of the burden of the Cross, is an intimate yet intensely dramatic work, poignantly sung by Peter Harvey; BWV 80 “Ein feste Burg” is, by contrast, a monumental choral cantata celebrating the most intrinsically Lutheran festivity, the Feast of the Reformation - from the colossal, initial choral fugue to the final chorale it is a veritable rollercoaster!