Description
SDG 174 | 2 CD (43 tracks)
For Christmas Day
BWV 63 / 191
For Epiphany
BWV 65 / 123
For the First Sunday after Epiphany
BWV 154 / 124 / 32
Recorded in Weimar / Leipzig / Hamburg
Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner – conductor
Soloists
Claron McFadden
Magdalena Kožená
Bernarda Fink
Sally Bruce-Payne
Michael Chance
Christoph Genz
James Gilchrist
Dietrich Henschel
Peter Harvey
Volume 18, the last to be released, was one of the most talked about musical events of the last decade. It is an anthology of the Christmas period, combining cantatas for Christmas Day and the Epiphany, and features ten acclaimed soloists, including Magdalena Kožená, Bernarda Fink, Michael Chance, James Gilchrist and Christopher Genz. This album was recorded at Weimar’s Herderkirche, Leipzig’s Nikolaikirche and Hamburg’s main church St. Jakobi.