With this set of 12 cantatas, a few of them quite short, Dutch historical-instrument conductor Ton Koopman approaches the end of his monumental traversal of the complete Bach cantata corpus. The cantatas here mostly date from the last two decades of Bach's life. By this time Bach had cantatas from earlier cycles ready for most occasions pertaining ...
Since Ton Koopman began recording Bach's complete cantatas in 1994, he has gone through three labels in getting his recordings to the public. First it was Erato, then it was Teldec, and now, finally, Antonie Marchand, the company that has not only completed Koopman's work but reissued the earlier volumes. All this is a wonderful example of ...
Brand new Bach! What more does anyone need to hear? Discovered in 2005, the strophic aria Alles mit Gott und nicht ohn' ihn (All things with God and nothing without Him) for soprano with a continuo of lute, organ, and bass, plus a ritornello of two violins and viola, is gloriously ripe Bach from 1713 written for the 52nd birthday of his patron, ...
The 22nd and final volume in Ton Koopman and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir's series of recordings of Bach's cantatas includes two of his final Lutheran cantatas, all four of his short Catholic masses based on movements taken from earlier cantatas, and an early secular version of one of the sacred cantatas plus arrangements of two ...
Even at their most deeply spiritual, there is a profound humanity to Ton Koopman and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir's recordings of Bach's cantatas that makes them essentially of this world. Take their performance of Was mein Gott will, das g'scheh allzeit (What my God wills, that'll always happen) BWV 111. If there is a typical Bach ...
After he finished recording everything he could possibly record by J.S. Bach in 2004, Dutch keyboard player and conductor Ton Koopman turned to recording everything he could possibly record by Dietrich Buxtehude in 2005. It made perfect sense. Buxtehude was a direct inspiration for the young Bach -- the story of the younger composer trekking from ...
It sure doesn't sound like Johann Sebastian Bach -- this is lighthearted and laughing music of broad wit and human warmth -- and it sure doesn't sound like Ton Koopman -- this is goofy and giddy music-making with plenty of juice -- and yet it's both Bach and Koopman. Apparently even Bach had to lighten up sometimes -- how many cantatas with names ...
With so many recordings of Bach's cantatas to choose from, why should the listener choose Volume 11 of Ton Koopman's survey of the complete cantatas? Does it include any of the "greatest hits" among the cantatas? No, none of the nine works included here, all from the second year of Bach's residence in Leipzig, are particularly well-known. Does it ...
Just because there are ten cantatas in this tenth volume of Ton Koopman and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Chorus' complete recordings of Bach's cantatas is no reason to play them all straight through them. After all, the cantatas were intended to be heard just once a week at Sunday services, and playing ten straight through comes dangerously ...
Just how to arrange Johann Sebastian Bach's cantatas for purposes of recording is always a daunting question -- to organize a complete cantata project by BWV number works the least well of all possible options. If J.S. Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 17, gives any indication of what Ton Koopman has in mind, it appears to be historical context rather than ...
How wonderful it must be to be Ton Koopman. Not only is he capable of playing every Baroque keyboard instrument at a virtuoso level, but he is recording the complete Cantatas of Bach with his own handpicked singers and instrumentalists with Koopman himself providing the keyboard continuo. In other words, Koopman gets to know one of the greatest ...
Danish-German composer Dietrich Buxtehude has an extensive output of vocal music in addition to his far better known canon of organ music. The vocal music is more obscure in that it is such a mixed bag. The oratorios he wrote have gone lost, many pieces relate directly to the organ music in a way that is difficult to divine now and some of the ...
As the saying goes, there are no bad Bach Cantatas, only Bach Cantatas one doesn't know yet. In Volume 6 of Ton Koopman's series of recordings of the Cantatas, there are two fairly well-known Cantatas, as well as with eight lesser-known Cantatas, plus a rarely recorded unfinished Cantata. And they are all superb. The familiar celebratory Cantata ...
Ton Koopman has recorded Bach's St. Matthew Passion twice, and in many ways, he seems to have changed his mind about the work. His 1992 recording for Erato was, for an original instrument/historically informed performance, large in scale, broad in scope, dramatic in execution, and heavy in sound. This, his 2005 recording for Antonie Marchand, is ...
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