Bach: Cantatas Nos.106, 182 & 229 – Amici Voices

   in Choir & Organ (May, 2019)
This CD from Amici Voices is a triumph. Since their founding in 2012, Amici Voices has pursued the path of one-to-a-voice Bach – and from the evidence of this disc, with great success. Bookended by two pre-Leipzig cantatas is a lithe and expressive reading of the double choir motet Komm, Jesu, komm, which, despite one or two slight lapses of intonation, catches the spirit of the piece. No less successful are Amici Voices’ readings of the cantatas – though they may be thought emotionally cool by some, this reviewer found their balanced no-nonsense approach refreshing. BWV 106 is a chamber piece whose very particular instrumental sonority (recorders and violas da …