Bach; Buxtehude German Baroque Cantatas
Highly accomplished performances of vocal masterpieces in the land of Bach
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Composer or Director: Johann Christoph Bach, Dietrich Buxtehude, Nicolaus Bruhns, Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Philipp Telemann
Genre:
Vocal
Label: Sony Classical
Magazine Review Date: 11/2008
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
Stereo
DDD
Catalogue Number: 88697 22503-2

Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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Du aber Daniel, gehe hin |
Georg Philipp Telemann, Composer
Georg Philipp Telemann, Composer Gli Angeli Geneve, Zoroastre Gli Angeli Genève Stephan MacLeod, Baritone Stephan MacLeod, Conductor |
Ach, das ich Wassers g'nug hätte |
Johann Christoph Bach, Composer
Gli Angeli Geneve, Zoroastre Gli Angeli Genève Johann Christoph Bach, Composer Stephan MacLeod, Baritone Stephan MacLeod, Conductor |
Jesu, meines Lebens Leben |
Dietrich Buxtehude, Composer
Dietrich Buxtehude, Composer Gli Angeli Geneve, Zoroastre Gli Angeli Genève Stephan MacLeod, Conductor Stephan MacLeod, Baritone |
Jauchzet dem Herren alle Welt |
Nicolaus Bruhns, Composer
Gli Angeli Geneve, Zoroastre Gli Angeli Genève Nicolaus Bruhns, Composer Stephan MacLeod, Baritone Stephan MacLeod, Conductor |
Cantata No. 82, 'Ich habe genug' |
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Gli Angeli Geneve, Zoroastre Gli Angeli Genève Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Stephan MacLeod, Conductor Stephan MacLeod, Baritone |
Author: Jonathan Freeman-Attwood
Johann Christoph Bach’s steamy lament Ach, dass ich Wassers is now a celebrated concert work for countertenors, but often clammily accompanied and over-infused with pure operatic gesture. Projection comes in many shapes and forms and the suggestive, soft-grained rhetorical inferences in the delectable dialogues between the irresistible Pascal Bertin and the rich five-part consort convey a potent message of deep, “jeremiad” sorrow.
Such refinement extends to the full-blooded Jesu, meines Lebens by Buxtehude, whose radiant chaconne is effectively complemented by the jubilant roulades of Jauchzet dem Herren by the short-lived Bruhns. This is a magnificent, concentrated and virtuoso piece for solo tenor, sung here passionately by Jan Kobow.
Director Stephan MacLeod’s Ich habe genug (BWV82) is a thoughtful if fairly uneventful addition to the catalogue. Telemann’s Funeral Cantata is perhaps the greatest surprise for its remarkably affecting text-setting, lightness of touch in its scoring and supreme attention to detail, not unlike Bach’s own Trauer Ode, in colorific approach if not idiom. It is another wonderful work and Gli Angeli’s grateful account reaches the heights in the concluding chorus (is this and the preceding soprano aria as Bachian as Telemann gets?) with that master of the oboe, Marcel Ponseele, as beguiling as ever.
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