[ BIS / Hybrid SACD ]
Release Date: Thursday 1 December 2011
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"Hana Blazikova delivers a clarion brightness...very much in the elegant Collegium Bach Japan vein: luminosity and purity of sentiment prevailing above an overlaid or projected personality...rugged fervour and brilliance spring off the page here. Another memorable release."
(Gramophone)
"the final duet-cum-chorale [of BWV49] is irresistable, with its alluring buoyancy heightened by Suzuki's natural, unforced direction...Robin Blaze is on particularly fine form...Suzuki never courts the visceral edge of John Eliot Gardiner, but he has a flawless integrity, the glorious SACD sound adding a halo of its own."
(BBC Music)
"Blazikova hardly needs any help from a microphone - the ringing purity of her tone audibly cuts through the choral texture and her solos glint with conentrated tone. She's perhaps too white and glassy for some, but I love it, and she always avoids that glacial dispassion to which some other ultra-focused sopranos succumb...As always, Suzuki fields a strong solo team....Robin Blaze brings his usual elegance and instinctive phrasing"
(International Record Review)
"Hana Blazikova delivers a clarion brightness...very much in the elegant Collegium Bach Japan vein: luminosity and purity of sentiment prevailing above an overlaid or projected personality...rugged fervour and brilliance spring off the page here. Another memorable release."
(Gramophone)
Cantata BWV149 'Man singet mit Freuden vom Sieg'
Cantata BWV145 'Ich lebe, mein Herze, zu deinem Ergötzen'
Cantata BWV174 'Ich liebe den Höchsten von ganzem Gemüte'
Cantata BWV49 'Ich geh und suche mit Verlangen'