Bach Cantatas - Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir

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Bass: Klaus Mertens
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Conductor: Ton Koopman
Orchestra: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra
Soprano: Anne Grimm
Soprano: Els Bongers
Soprano: Lisa Larsson
Tenor: Lothar Odinius
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); German (Original Language)
Format: Classical, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 178 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-06-26
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Kultur Video

DVD Reviews of Bach Cantatas - Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir

DVD Review: Perfection
Summary: 5 Stars

Tonight we watched two Bach Cantatas on the big screen conducted by Ton Koopman. It was incredible. I had no idea what I was getting when I bought this DVD. Koopman gives beautiful introductions to this work, and the musicians make NO mistakes. NONE. I don't think I've ever heard/seen anything so beautiful. This reinforces my original belief that Bach is the greatest composer who ever lived.

DVD Review: Cantata Starter Kit
Summary: 5 Stars

I'm just starting exploring Bach cantatas. I ordered $300 worth of recommended CDs and DVDs. This is the best of them all. I adore Koopman's educational talks before each cantata... and musically they are glorious.
FIVE STARS

DVD Review: Beyond the music, excellent photography!
Summary: 5 Stars

Like some others, I am relishing repeated showings/listenings of this luscious DVD. I love it, and also enjoying Koopman's mini lectures. I have many many classical music videos...some of which I share with my mother, who has dementia. If the photography is appealing and clear, she is sucked right in and conducts along with the music, as she did here. Although the ensembles are bare bone, as in Bach's days, the production is not at all dry. The multiple cameras do more than just pan and zoom in. Cameras are on booms and perhaps even a steadicam. The camera floats over the orchestra, around the front to focus on the soloist. The choice of camera angles and shots seems to be flawless...you can always tell what is going on. The "Kaffee Kantata" is shot at a picturesque old coffee house...and partially staged with costumes. Also, the other cantatas are shot in a few different venues, with the performers changing outfits, so nothing seems old. Enjoyed hearing a few less familiar pieces, such as the Actus Tragicus and the 131. Wish he'd film the St. John and b minor mass. This set was expensive to film...wow. Oh, the solo soprano tones rather stressed my Bose computer speakers, but sounded great on the Sennheiser headphones.

DVD Review: Was f?r sch?ner Musik!
Summary: 5 Stars

For someone born, raised, and currently still living in the Central United States, having the chance to see even one major Bach work without having to travel at least an hour by car is a rarity. Being able to see so many as are featured on this DVD is a veritable Bach buffet! Ton Koopman's renditions leave naught for want and, as a special treat, the Kaffe Kantate adds an amazingly candid look at how human Bach actually was! (Who would have thought!?)
When I first received this DVD, I watched it through completely twice before I was able to go on with anything else; what a treat!

DVD Review: captivating Bach
Summary: 4 Stars

Dutch musician/musicologist Ton Koopman leads performances of six Bach cantatas in a mostly successful filmed musical venture. The performances by the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir adhere to accepted standards of 'Baroque performance' while manifesting Bach's red-blooded music with passionate abandon. Especially welcomed is the inclusion of BWV 106 'Actus Tragicus', Bach's funeral cantata of humble mien and ecstatic everlasting richness, with a superbly played opening sonatina, the singers entering the stage only toward its conclusion. My one disappointment was the really unnecessary commentary throughout by Koopman. I'm a musician and teacher who appreciates Koopman's musical attainment, but his ability to communicate Bach's essence with words is fraught with the nomenclature of musicians that translates confusedly at best to the average viewer, a criticism frequently made to me by my students who have watched the film. I reckon one man's 'informative soliloquy' is another's made-to-order bore. I don't find the spiritual attainment in these performances that one finds in the Cantata performances of Bach Collegium Japan, but the rewards here are plentiful regardless. Recommended for lovers of Bach's cantatas. This dvd is definitely a worthwhile plus to the available catalogue.

Description of Bach Cantatas - Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir

Widely accepted as a leading authority on Baroque music, Ton Koopman introduces and conducts five of J.S. Bach's religious cantatas (composed between 1707 and 1731) and his famous secular Kaffee Kantate. Performed by the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir, the ensemble aptly illustrates the enormous skill and diversity in J.S. Bach's music.

Actus Tragicus, BWV 106
Aus der Tiefen, BWV 131
Wachet auf, BWV 140
Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147
Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht (Kaffee Kantate) BWV 211
Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen, BWV 56

Recorded in The Netherlands at Pieterskerk, Utrecht; Grote Kerk, Naarden; Stadscafe de Waag, Doesburg..

The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra And Choir, Ton Koopman

Contains 6 Full-Length Cantatas.

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