Bach: Ascension Oratorio, BWV 11 / Arias (with Handel-arias)
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Ascension Oratorio, BWV 11 / Arias (with Handel-arias)
Kathleen Ferrier (contralto) with Ena Mitchell (soprano) William Herbert (tenor) William Pasons (bass) / Cantata Singers / Reginald Jacques
[ Naxos Historical Great Singers / CD ]
Release Date: Monday 1 September 2008
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'No summit of solemnity was inaccessible to her, and it was particularly music of spiritual meaning that seemed her most personal domain.' Thus wrote the distingushed conductor Bruno Walter about the contralto Kathleen Ferrier, whose highly individual, plangent voice, natural musicianship and high level of personal professionalism made her one of England's most popular singers during her all-too-brief career. This disc compiles a large number of her recordings of arias by Bach and Handel, to whose music she brought breadth, nobility and deep emotional commitment. She is accompanied by Sir Adrian Boult and Reginald Jacques, both major figures in England's post-war musical life. The Cantata recording appears on CD for the first time.
Tracks:
Bach, Johann Sebastian:
Mass in B minor, BWV 232: Qui sedes ad dextram Patris
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Part I: No. 6. Aria: Grief for Sin (Buss und Reu)
St. John Passion, BWV 245, Part II: Aria: All is fulfilled (Es ist vollbracht!)
Mass in B minor, BWV 232: Agnus Dei
Ascension Oratorio: Praise Our God (Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen), BWV 11
Handel, George Frideric:
Samson, HWV 57, Act II: Aria: Return, Oh God of hosts
Messiah, HWV 56, Part I: Aria: O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Part III: Air: Father of Heaven
Messiah, HWV 56, Part II: Aria: He was despised and rejected of men
