Since you are interested in Sacred Cantatas - Volume 2, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
BUXTEHUDE
Membra jesu nostri / Laudate, pueri, Dominum (with Weckmann - Kommet her zu mir alle) Emma Kirkby (soprano) Michael Chance (counter-tenor) Charles Daniels (tenor) Peter Harvey (bass) / Purcell Quartet [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Nov/2010 ] "Charles Daniels's soft high tenor has a hushed devotional character...The Purcell Quartet play with reliable stylishness." (Gramophone) |
J.S. BACH
Early Cantatas, volume 2 (Weimar) Emma Kirkby (soprano) / Michael Chance (counter-tenor) / Charles Daniels (tenor) / Peter Harvey (bass) / The Purcell Quartet [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Jun/2007 ] "This undirected group of soloists and instrumentalists works together with impressive cohesiveness. Without the sense - which in other kinds of performance one can never quite escape, for good or ill - of the personality and interpretative of a... |
BUXTEHUDE
O frohliche Stunden, BuxWV 84 Hans-Jorg Mammel (tenor) / La Fenice / Jean Tubery [ Alpha / CD - released 27/Oct/2007 ] While best known as a master of the organ and of the polyphonic Cantata, the great Buxtehude also left us a number of Spiritual Concerts for soloists and instrumental ensemble. For this recital, Hans-Jörg Mammel has selected works from this... |
REINCKEN
Hortus musicus and Works for Harpsichord Purcell Quartet [ Chandos Chaconne / CD - released 22/Aug/2002 ] ''Listening to the suites of Hortus musicus, I am at a loss to know why they are not played more often. The italianate part-writing is elegantly crafted, well-sustained and plentifully endowed with harmonic interest. They are qualities to which the... |
BUXTEHUDE
Seven Trio Sonatas, Op. 2, BuxWV 259-265 The Purcell Quartet [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Feb/2012 ] "All four musicians...reveal their experience and expertise as interpreters, particularly of this kind of German repertoire, which they have been championing for some time now; less flamboyant or fatly comfortable of sound than Koopman's group, they... |