Ach suber Trost!: Leipzig Cantatas
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J. S. BACH
Ach suber Trost!: Leipzig Cantatas
Collegium Vocale Gent / Philippe Herreweghe
[ PHI / Outhere / CD ]
Release Date: Wednesday 20 February 2013
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The four cantatas selected by Philippe Herreweghe for this recording date from the first year of Bach's activity in Leipzig.
Written at a tight pace between late July and early September 1723, they underscore, above all, the composer's obvious effort to establish original musical proposals.
He continually showed the musicians and listeners that he was not serving them routine 'cantor's music' but was writing sacred music as a true Kapellmeister.
In this first volume of Bach cantatas for the PHI label, the Collegium Vocale Gent is interpreting a few cantatas (BWV 25 and 46) for the first time.
"the choral sound is lean and alert, helped by lively tempos. Its near-solo tone, though, mingles rather than contrasts with the similar-scaled orchestra...Of the soloists, Thomas Hobbs is outstandingly expressive and vocally at ease, while bass Peter Kooij too is magnificent...this is Bach at his most inventive, in a sensitive and polished performance." [BBC Music Magazine]
"Especially in BWV25, Collegium Vocale Gent create the most ravishing of luminescent textures...Perfect balance is found here and Hana Blažiková's sparkling singing contributes to a memorable account...I defy anyone to find a more deploring and anguished reading of 'Wie zittern', with oboist Marcelle Ponseele performing the obbligato oboe even more exquisitely than before...a reading of experience and great beauty: quite simply a 'must-have' for Bach lovers." (Gramophone, February 2013)
Tracks:
Bach, J S:
Cantata BWV25 'Es ist nichts Gesundes an meinem Leibe'
Cantata BWV138 'Warum betrübst du dich, mein Herz'
Cantata BWV105 'Herr, gehe nicht ins Gericht mit deinem Knecht'
Cantata BWV46 'Schauet doch und sehet, ob irgend ein Schmerz sei'
