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CMG Record Reviews Bach: Arias

 

Performers: Angelika Kirchschlager

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CD Title: Bach: Arias
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
CD INFO: Sony SK 89924
Reviewer: Ward Botsford
Notes: Giuliano Carmignola – Baroque Violin
Venice Baroque Orchestra
Andrea Marcon, conductor
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Excerpt used: B Minor Mass
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  What's On This CD:

Cantata No. 83, "Erfreute Zeit im neuen Bunde," BWV 83 Erfreute Zeit

Cantata No. 170, "Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust," BWV 170 Vergnügte Ruh

Cantata No. 82, "Ich habe genug," BWV 82 Schlummert ein, ihr matten Augen

Cantata No. 74, "Wer mich liebet, der wird mein Wort halten,"
BWV 74 Nichts kann mich erretten

Cantata No. 42, "Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbaths," BWV 42 Wo zwei und drei versammelt sind

Cantata No. 156, "Ich steh mit einem Fuss im Grabe," BWV 156 Herr, was du willst

Mass in B minor: Audamus Te, BWV 232

Matthäuspassion (St. Matthew Passion), BWV 244 Erbarme Dich

Cantata No. 54, "Widerstehe doch der Sünde," BWV 54 Widerstehe doch der Sunde

248 Chorale: Wie soll ich dich empfangen

Cantata No. 156, "Ich steh mit einem Fuss im Grabe," BWV 156 Sinfonia

Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248 Bereite dich Zion

Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248 Chorale: Wie soll ich dich empfangen


Review:

Kirchlager has a voice ideally suited to the music at hand. Not rich, not plumy, only musical. This is a record to be heard not once but many times.

As to the orchestra of period instruments: I’m sorry but they are consistently off pitch and it grates on my tympanum. Authenticity is one thing. Pitch is another.

Recording is OK.

The notes include texts but curiously enough nothing about the singer. For those of you who are interested – and, as I say: This in an ideally apt voice for the music – get on ye Internet: http://www.sonyclassical.com/artists/kirchschlager/ and ye shall receive.

 

 

 
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