JS Bach: Motets
Ensemble Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
Awards:
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Opus Klassik, 2021, Winner - Choral
Pichon favours brisk tempos and draws lively and crisply articulated singing from his vocal ensemble. Textures are luminous and transparent, though just occasionally I found phrases a shade...
JS Bach: Motets
Ensemble Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
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Awards:
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Opus Klassik, 2021, Winner - Choral
Pichon favours brisk tempos and draws lively and crisply articulated singing from his vocal ensemble. Textures are luminous and transparent, though just occasionally I found phrases a shade...
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Bach's motets, most of them composed during the 1730s, are among his finest vocal works. They feature a meticulous attention to the musical expression of the word, employing a tremendous variety of tone-colors, textures and effects. On this recording, Raphaël Pichon and his ensemble Pygmalion bring out every nuance of these exceptional choral masterpieces.
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Hieronimus Praetorius:
Cantiones sacrae de praecipuis festis totius anni: Tulerunt Dominum meum
Work length4:10
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Awards and reviews
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Opus Klassik2021Winner - Choral
December 2020
Pichon favours brisk tempos and draws lively and crisply articulated singing from his vocal ensemble. Textures are luminous and transparent, though just occasionally I found phrases a shade too clipped. But these are performances that are fullblooded and generously endowed with illustrative vocal gestures which enhance the text. Indeed, the attention afforded the texts is one of the great virtues of this singing.
