Lean and austere, yet deeply felt and profoundly spiritual, the first volume in Chandos' series of recordings of Bach's early Cantatas is a complete success. With one player and one singer per part, these are chamber music-scaled performances: it is quite lean and very austere. But that's fine: the musicians are all superb and the music benefits ...
What we have here, ladies and gentlemen, is that rarest of rare things: a genuine world-premiere recording of a piece by Johann Sebastian Bach appropriately entitled Alles mit Gott und nichts ohn' (All with Got and Nothing Without). A single-movement cantata setting of a birthday ode for Duke Wilhelm Ernst of Saxe-Weimar composed in 1713, the work ...
When recording Bach's 199 sacred cantatas, various strategies have been employed to impose meaningful order on them. There's the "everything from BWV 1 to BWV 199" approach, the "everything in the church year" approach, and the less frequently employed "everything in chronological order" approach, adopted here by the Purcell Quartet. In this the ...
This quintessentially British Mass in B minor was recorded in 1994 and has been reissued various times since its original release on the Collins label. The original sound, a product of London's St. Augustine's Church, conveyed the efforts of the Sixteen (actually a choir of 26 in this case) and the historical-instrument Symphony of Harmony & ...
Had Purcell not written so much that was so great, his early death would not have been such a loss for English music. Yet had he not written so much that was so great, his posthumous fame would not bring such glory to English music. In this disc collecting the best known of his works written for Queen Mary, the full emotional range of Purcell's ...
Repackaging old recordings as some kind of ideal selection for newcomers is reprehensible. Would you serve a plate of leftovers to a party of new visitors to your home? That said, this disc gives the casual buyer a reasonable sampling of some of the new ways in which Baroque music has been performed over the last two decades, with almost all the ...
As the forces named on the cover imply, this is a one-voice-per-part and also a one-instrument-per-part, performance, with the quartet of soloists taking choruses, chorales, and solo sections alike, and the string parts also reduced to a single instrument each. The jury is still out on this American-originated approach, which has gained adherents ...
There was a time when these early-'80s recordings of Bach's Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Brandenburgs and his Triple Concerto for flute, violin and harpsichord were the best available, when the playing of harpsichordist Trevor Pinnock was the sin qua non of style, when the violin playing of Simon Standage was the ne plus ultra of grace, when the ...
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