in Choir & Organ (May, 2013)
Bach’s reputation as a transhistorical, monolithic genius of essentially spiritual music has deafened us to his secular and popular work. To our cost. These lovely cantatas, mostly to libretti by his friend Picander, have been sorely neglected. The words aren’t deathless, but some of the music is, and if there’s a love- lier air than Tmolus’s ‘Phobus, deine Melodei’ in BWV 201 Der Streit zwischen Phobus und Pan (sung by Fabio Trumpy here), it hasn’t been found yet. The other pieces are BWV 205 Der zufriedengestel- lete Aolus (‘Aeolus Pacified’) from 1725, and BWV 213 Die Wahl des Herkules (‘Herkules’s Choice’ or ‘At the Crossroads’), which was written in …
Bach : Cantatas BWV 201, 205, 213. Alarcon.
Johann Sebastian Bach : Bach Drama / Cantates BWV 201, 205 et 213.
Céline Scheen (soprano), Clint Van der Linde (contre-ténor), Makoto Sakurada, Fabio Trümpy (ténors), Christian Immler, Alejandro Meerapfel (basses), Chœur de chambre de Namur, Les Agrémens, Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, direction.
26,90€
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