After this wonderful recording is also (with some economize on booklet) in the lower price range offered for some time, it is probably hardly be a reason not to buy this recording. The countless hymns on this without exaggeration a masterpiece to be classified recording you can only connect fully. The vocal ensemble FRANKFURT presents itself in top form and leaves nothing to be desired. Here is a virtuoso and dance (the opening chorus Cantata V) on the one hand - with great calm and depth on the other side acts (in the beautifully modeled chorales). About the famos aufspielende Concerto Köln including brilliant "nature-Brass" you can also just amazed and soloists seal the deal that this recording even after 15 years is still the measure of all things. In direct comparison with other "flagships" of early music to other advantages can work out. Just opposite Gardiners recording can be seen that brilliance, virtuosity and pace "still" can be combined with a great suspense and the view's big picture (be in all disputes whether Bach "oratorio" ever as a coherent body of work conceived had) with Ralf Otto always present for the listener is / remains.
