The Liturgical Year with Johann Sebastian Bach

The liturgical year with Johann Sebastian Bach: Rondeau Production and Deutschlandradio Kultur are currently releasing a ten-disc CD series with Thomanerchor Leipzig (St Thomas’s Boys Choir Leipzig). The choir presents selected cantatas for the liturgical year in new, vibrant recordings. The music for the liturgy holds a very special place at St Thomas’s Church Leipzig: even today, the church’s boys choir and the Gewandhausorchester (Gewandhaus Orchestra) perform a cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach every week.

The following recordings are published as part of the ten-CD series:
Cantatas for Advent BWV 36, 61, 62 (ROP4040)
Cantatas for Christmas BWV 63, 110, 190 (ROP4043)
Cantatas for Epiphany BWV 3, 65, 72 (ROP4038)
Cantatas for Passiontide BWV 22, 23, 182 (ROP4044)
Cantatas for Easter BWV 4, 31, 67 (ROP4045)
Cantatas for The Ascension BWV 37, 43, 128 (ROP4041)
Cantatas for Pentecost BWV 34, 74, 172 (ROP4026)
Cantatas for Trinity Sunday BWV 75, 194 (ROP4036)
Cantatas for Marian Feast BWV 1, 125, 147 (ROP4039)
Cantatas for Reformation/Michaelmas BWV 19, 50, 79, 80 (ROP4031)

Pay only €149.95 (instead of €169.50) if you order the ten-disc edition ‘The Liturgical Year with Johann Sebastian Bach’ today – you save €19.55!

Thomanerchor Leipzig
Gewandhausorchester
Thomaskantor Georg Christoph Biller

 American Record Guide (20th November 2013, John W. Barker):

"...These releases [...] make a strong impression. Tempos and pacing are on the cautious side, but judicous and quite satisfying. The instrumental work is outstanding, and the adult male soloists are uniformly satisfiyng. In genreal, these are performances for people who can enjoy a special combination of "traditional" qualitites."