Bach: Magnificat (with Handel-Dixit Dominus)
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Magnificat (with Handel-Dixit Dominus)
Natalie Dessay, Karine Deshayes, Philippe Jaroussky, Toby Spence / Le Concert d'Astree / Emmanuelle Haim
[ Erato Classics / CD ]
Release Date: Saturday 22 December 2007
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Emmanuelle Haïm began her piano studies with Yvonne Lefébure and continued by studying the organ with André Isoir. Her instrument of choice, however, is the harpsichord, which she studied with Kenneth Gilbert and Christophe Rousset while also studying musical style and figured bass. A gifted musician, she was awarded five first prizes at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Musique et de Danse in Paris.
Her love of the human voice led her to concentrate on vocal coaching, first at the Baroque music centre of the Studio Versailles-Opéra and then at the CNSM in Paris, where she has coached singers in the Baroque repertoire. Among the many distinguished singers who have invited her to accompany them in recital are Cecilia Bartoli, Natalie Dessay, Patricia Petibon and Sandrine Piau.
"Haïm's performances are light-footed and elegantly phrased and her mainly pleasing line-up of soloists is attentive to textural content and word-painting." BBC Music
"while joyful exhortation courses through the Magnificat, Haïm's approach is not simply about sprung rhythmic gesture. She harnesses and moulds the solos with a kaleidoscopic scheme of voice-types, hand-picked for each movement… Again, it is the solo movements in Dixit Dominus which capture the imagination as they are distilled through Haïm's inimitable operatic flair and dramatic timings, where bite and allure sit in easy juxtaposition." Gramophone
Tracks:
Bach:
Magnificat in D Major, BWV243
Handel:
Dixit Dominus HWV 232
