For the First Sunday after Easter, John Eliot Gardiner and his Bach cantata pilgrimage took themselves to the Johann Sebastian-Bach-Kirche in Arnstadt, Thuringia -- so named because it was the 18-year-old Bach's first professional post -- to perform and record four cantatas on April 29 and 30, 2000: Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich (Unto Thee, Lord, do I lift up my soul) (BWV 150), Halt im Gedächtnis Jesum Christ (Remember that Jesus Christ) (BWV 67), Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats (Then the same day at evening) (BWV 42), ...
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For the First Sunday after Easter, John Eliot Gardiner and his Bach cantata pilgrimage took themselves to the Johann Sebastian-Bach-Kirche in Arnstadt, Thuringia -- so named because it was the 18-year-old Bach's first professional post -- to perform and record four cantatas on April 29 and 30, 2000: Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich (Unto Thee, Lord, do I lift up my soul) (BWV 150), Halt im Gedächtnis Jesum Christ (Remember that Jesus Christ) (BWV 67), Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats (Then the same day at evening) (BWV 42), and Der Friede sei mit dir (Peace be with you) (BWV 158). With his Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists, plus soprano Gillian Keith, alto Daniel Taylor, tenor Charles Daniels, and bass Stephen Varcoe, Gardiner paints a colorful, devotional portrait of Bach as a young Lutheran composer eager to prove his musical skill and his spiritual commitment.For the Second Sunday after Easter, Gardiner and his Pilgrimage went west to the Basilique St. Willibrord in Echternach, Luxembourg...
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