Du treuer Gott Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe

• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Nimm von uns Herr, du treuer Gott, BWV 101:
• 1 No. 1, Nimm von uns Herr, du treuer Gott 07:44
• 2 No. 2, Handle nicht nach deinen Rechten 03:30
• 3 No. 3, Ach! Herr Gott, durch die Treue dein 02:13
• 4 No. 4, Warum willst du so zornig sein? 04:14
• 5 No. 5, Die Sünd hat uns verderbet sehr 02:11
• 6 No. 6, Gedenk an Jesu bittern Tod! 05:59
• 7 No. 7, Leit uns mit deiner rechten Hand 00:55
• Mache dich, mein Geist, bereit, BWV 115:
• 8 No. 1, Mache dich, mein Geist, bereit 04:00
• 9 No. 2, Ach schläfrige Seele 07:53
• 10 No. 3, Gott, so vor deine Seele wacht 01:08
• 11 No. 4, Bete aber auch dabei 06:18
• 12 No. 5, Er sehnet sich nach unserm Schreien 00:53
• 13 No. 6, Drum so lasst uns immerdar 00:54
• Ihr werdet weinen und heulen, BWV 103:
• 14 No. 1, Ihr werdet weinen und heulen 05:20
• 15 No. 2, Wer sollte nicht in Klagen untergehn 00:39
• 16 No. 3, Kein Arzt ist außer dir zu finden 04:04
• 17 No. 4, Du wirst mich nach der Angst 00:34
• 18 No. 5, Erholet euch, betrübte Sinnen 02:49
• 19 No. 6, Ich hab dich einen Augenblick 01:03
• Total Runtime 01:02:21

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For the third time on the Phi label, Philippe Herreweghe gives us the opportunity to (re)discover three cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach – Nimm von uns, Herr, du treuer Gott, BWV 101, Ihr werdet weinen und heulen, BWV 103 and Mache dich, mein Geist, bereit, BWV 115. After two albums of cantatas written during the composer’s first year in Leipzig (LPH006 and LPH012), the Belgian conductor and his Collegium Vocale Gent, orchestra and choir, will be performing three cantatas he composed during his second year as Kantor at St Thomas’s. The choir and vocal soloists are once again challenged to produce performances of subtlety and refined virtuosity, and the instrumentarium is as rich and colourful as those heard previously in this series.

This album, a genuine delight for aficionados and novices alike, precedes a further disc of cantatas which will be released in spring 2018.

Dorothee Mields, soprano
Damien Guillon, countertenor
Thomas Hobbs, tenor
Peter Kooij, bass
Collegium Vocale Gent
Philippe Herreweghe, direction

Collegium Vocale Gent
In 2010, Collegium Vocale Gent celebrated its founding forty years before, by a group of friends studying at the University of Ghent, on Philippe Herreweghe’s initiative. They were one of the first ensembles to use new ideas about baroque performance practice in vocal music. Their authentic, text-oriented and rhetorical approach gave the ensemble the transparent sound with which it would acquire world fame and perform at the major concert venues and music festivals of Europe, Israel, the United States, Russia, South America, Japan, Hong Kong and Australia.

In recent years, Collegium Vocale Gent has grown organically into an extremely flexible ensemble whose wide repertoire encompasses a range of different stylistic periods. Its greatest strength is its ability to assemble the ideal performing forces for any project. Music from the Renaissance, for example, is performed by an ensemble of six to twelve singers. German Baroque music, particularly J.S. Bach’s vocal works, quickly became a speciality of the group and is still the jewel in its crown. Today Collegium Vocale performs this music with a small ensemble in which the singers take both the chorus and solo parts. Collegium Vocale is also specializing more and more in the Romantic, modern and contemporary oratorio repertoires. To this end, Collegium Vocale Gent entered into a partnership with the Accademia Chigiana in Siena and since 2011 enjoys the support of the European Union’s Cultural Programme. The result is a shared symphonic choir recruiting singers from all of Europe, in which experienced singers stand alongside young talent. Moreover, Collegium Vocale Gent fulfils an important educational position.

Besides using its own baroque orchestra, Collegium Vocale Gent works with several historically informed instrumental ensembles to perform these projects, including the Orchestre des Champs Elysées, Freiburger Barockorchester and Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin. It also works with prominent symphony orchestras such as deFilharmonie (Royal Flemish Philharmonic), the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, the Budapest Festival Orchestra and Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. The ensemble has worked with Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Sigiswald Kuijken, René Jacobs, Paul Van Nevel, Iván Fischer, Marcus Creed, Kaspars Putnins, Yannick Nézet-Séguin and many others leading conductors.

Under Philippe Herreweghe’s direction, Collegium Vocale Gent has built up an impressive discography with more than 80 recordings, most of them with the Harmonia Mundi France and Virgin Classics labels. In 2010, Philippe Herreweghe started his own label φ (phi) in order to give himself full artistic freedom to build up a rich and varied catalogue. In 2011-2012 a new cd with Motets by J.S.Bach (LHI 002) was released, followed by a recording of Choral works by Johannes Brahms (LPH 003) , a new recording of Bach’s Mass in B minor (LPH 004) and T.Lde Victoria’s Officium defunctorum (LPH 005).

Collegium Vocale Gent enjoys the financial support of the Flemish Community, the Province of East Flanders and the city of Ghent. In 2011 the ensemble became Ambassador of the European Union.

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