JS Bach: Cantatas Nos 106 & 182
Amici Voices
There are many lovely things about this album including some delightful instrumental playing, but some of the solo work and chorus vocal balance could be tighter.
JS Bach: Cantatas Nos 106 & 182
Amici Voices
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There are many lovely things about this album including some delightful instrumental playing, but some of the solo work and chorus vocal balance could be tighter.
About
Bach may only have been in his early twenties when he wrote it, but Cantata No 106 (the ‘Actus tragicus’) is a profound contemplation of things final; the motet ‘Komm, Jesu, komm’ occupies similar eschatalogical territory. This is an inspired programme of some of the most moving vocal music ever written.
Contents and tracklist
- Bethany Partridge (soprano), Helen Charlston (mezzo-soprano), Hiroshi Amako (tenor), Michael Craddock (bass)
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- Hiroshi Amako (tenor), Henry Hawkesworth (bass), Helen Charlston (mezzo-soprano)
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Awards and reviews
May 2019
There are many lovely things about this album including some delightful instrumental playing, but some of the solo work and chorus vocal balance could be tighter.
May/June 2019
This CD from Amici Voices is a triumph… one has the sense of an ensemble with great things ahead of them.
March 2019
This skilfully imagined and recorded programme instils a distinctive and quiet confidence in three radiantly chiselled landscapes…Voices get right inside the music…In sum, this is as thoughtfully executed a Bach programme as you could possibly imagine. Most of all, it rings with truth and warms the heart.
April 2019
An intimate and delicate approach by a small UK-based group of vocal and instrumental specialists to two of Bach’s early cantatas and a funeral Motet
classicalsource.com March 2019
Emotional expression and vigorous articulation are stunning.
