MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach: Violin & Voice: Arias and Duets for soprano and bass with Violino Obligato
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J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach: Violin & Voice: Arias and Duets for soprano and bass with Violino Obligato
Hilary Hahn (violin), Christine Schäfer (soprano) Matthias Goerne (baritone) / Münchener Kammerorchester, Alexander Liebreich
[ Deutsche Grammophon / CD ]
Release Date: Monday 25 January 2010
This item is only available to us via Special Import.
"There is something touchingly old-fashioned about this attractive collection of Bach arias that feature the violin, and it has clearly been a labour of love for young violinist Hilary Hahn to draw together friends and colleagues for the project." The Observer, 3rd January 2010
"An album of intriguing novelty, grace and subtlety." The Independent, 8th January 2010 ****
"Hilary Hahn...reveals herself as a Bach interpreter of surprising substance." Financial Times, 8th January 2010 ***
"[Hahn's] prancing rhythmic inflections, golden yellow tones and avoidance of the fussily decorative bring delight in every one of the 12 tracks." The Times, 15th January 2010 ****
To the vocal lines of arias and duets, Bach composed gorgeous violin obbligati. In this novel album, Hilary Hahn records these obbligati exclusively - an act of devotion no other virtuoso violinist has ever committed to disc
Sharing this album with Hahn are soprano Christine Schäfer and baritone Matthias Goerne, both also renowned Bach exponents
Numbers from such masterpieces as the St. Matthew Passion and the Mass in B minor are rendered with an unearthly beauty and a reverence that add to this recording's historical significance
In truth, this album features not two but three singers - Hahn elicits from her Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume tone as sung by a golden voice
Tracks:
St Matthew Passion, BWV244: Gebt mir meinen Jesum wieder (bass aria)
Cantata BWV140 'Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme': Wenn kömmst du, mein Heil? (duet - soprano, bass)
Cantata BWV204 'Ich bin in mir vergnügt': Die Schätzbarkeit der weiten Erden (soprano aria)
Cantata BWV32 'Liebster Jesu, mein Verlangen': Hier in meines Vaters Stätte (bass aria)
Cantata BWV205 'Zerreißet. Zersprenge, zertrümmert die Gruft': Angenehmer Zephyrus (soprano aria)
Mass in B minor, BWV232: Laudamus Te
Cantata BWV157 'Ich lasse dich nicht, du segnest mich denn': Jaja, ich halte Jesum feste (bass aria)
Flute: Henrik Wiese
Cantata BWV59 'Wer mich liebet, der wird mein Wort halten': Die Welt mit allen Königreichen (bass aria)
Cantata BWV58 'Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid': Ich bin vergnügt in meinem Leiden (soprano aria)
Cantata BWV117 'Sei Lob und Ehr dem höchsten Gut': Wenn Trost und Hülf ermangeln muss (soprano aria)
Cantata BWV158 'Der Friede sei mit dir' Welt, ade, ich bin dein müde (bass aria)
St Matthew Passion, BWV244: Erbarme dich
transposed for soprano by Felix Mendelssohn
