Bach Cantata 156: Gardiner, Harnoncourt, Leusink, Thomas


Rembrandt van Rijn, Christ cleansing the leper, Rijksprentenkabinet, Amsterdam, 1657-60

Ich steh mit einem Fuß im Grabe!
I stand with one foot in the grave!
Cantata 156
BWV 156

Event: Solo Cantata for the 3rd Sunday after Epiphany
1st Performance: January 23, 1729? Leibzig
Readings: Epistle: Romans 12: 17-21; Gospel: Matthew 8: 1-13
Text: Christian Friedrich Henrici (Picander) (Mvts. 3-5); Johann Heermann (Mvt. 2); Kaspar Bienemann (Mvt. 6)

Click to read brief commentaries by Simon Crouch for Classical Net, Michael Jameson for All Music and Julian Mincham.
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Performance of Soprano: Choir; Contralto: Sara Mingardo; Tenor: Julian Podger; Bass: Stephen Varcoe; Monteverdi Choir / English Baroque Soloists; John Eliot Gardiner conducting.  Live recording from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage, at Chisea di San Marco, Milan, Italy.
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Performance of Boy Soprano: Christoph Wegmann (Soloist of the Tölzer Knabenchor) + Choir (in the Aria with Chorale); Alto: Paul Esswood; Tenor: Kurt Equiluz; Bass: Thomas Hampson; Tölzer Knabenchor (Chorus Master: Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden) / Concentus Musicus Wien; Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting.
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Performance of Soprano: Ruth Holton; Alto: Sytse Buwalda; Tenor: Nico van der Meel; Bass: Bas Ramselaar; Holland Boys Choir / Netherlands Bach Collegium; Pieter Jan Leusink conducting.  Recorded at St. Nicolaschurch, Elburg, Holland.
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Performance of Soprano: Choir; Counter-tenor: Steven Rickards; Tenor: Jeffrey Thomas; Bass: James Weaver; American Bach Soloists; Jeffrey Thomas conducting.
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