Artist: Joanne Lunn
Artist: Wilke te Brummelstroete
Artist: Paul Agnew
Artist: Dietrich Henschel
Choir: Monteverdi Choir
Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Artist: Joanne Lunn
Artist: Wilke te Brummelstroete
Artist: Paul Agnew
Artist: Dietrich Henschel
Choir: Monteverdi Choir
Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
J. S. Bach
Cantatas:
BWV 75 [29:15]
BWV 39 [21:00]
BWV 20 [23:46]
Soprano: Gillian Keith
Mezzo-soprano: Wilke te Brummelstroete
Tenor: Paul Agnew
Bass: Dietrich HenschelLive
Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner
Recordings from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage: at St. Giles Cripplegate, London, England.
Volume 1 CD 2
J. S. Bach
Cantatas:
BWV 194
BWV 176 [10:29]
BWV 165 [12:54]
BWV 129 [18:52]
Soprano: Ruth Holton
Counter-tenor: Daniel Taylor
Tenor: Paul Agnew
Bass: Peter Harvey
Monteverdi Choir:
Sopranos: Suzanne Flowers, Gillian Keith, Emma Preston-Dunlop, Katharine Fuge, Elisabeth Priday, Joanne Lunn
Altos: Elinor Carter, Mark Chambers, Angus Davidson, Charles Humphries
Tenors: Rory OConnor, Paul Tindall, Peter Butterfield, Nicolas Robertson
Basses: Julian Clarkson, Charles Pott, Robert Evans, Michael McCarthy
English Baroque Soloists:
Violins 1: Alison Bury, Penelope Spencer, Catherine Martin, Debbie Diamond, Jane Gillie
Violins 2: Lucy Howard, Matthew Truscott, Silvia Schweinberger, Desmond Heath
Violas: Annette Isserlis, Katherine McGillivray, Colin Kitching
Cellos: Melanie Beck, Helen Verney
Double-bass: Valerie Botwright
Flute: Rachel Beckett
Oboes: Edouard Wesley, Mark Baigent, Jasu Moisio
Bassoon: Philip Turbett
Trumpets: Mark Bennett, Mike Harrison, Paul Sharp
Timpani: John Chimes
Harpsichord: Howard Moody
Organ: Robert Quinney
John Eliot Gardiner
Live recordings from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage:
St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall, Orkney, Scotland www.bach-cantatas.com/Performers/Gardiner-Rec4.htm
Volume 27 CD-2
“China’s premier interpreter of Bach”, is what International Piano Magazine called Yuan Sheng. A pupil of Solomon Mikowsky (Manhattan School of Music) and notably Rosalyn Tureck, Yuan Sheng extensively studied the performance practice of Baroque music. Equally at home at the harpsichord he has an instinctive feeling for the possibilities, sonorities and touch of the instrument at hand, so that “the listener might easily have imagined the composer at the keyboard” (Boston Intelligencer).
The title is misleading: the English Suites are more ‘French’ in character than the French Suites, which are more characteristic of the Italian style. ‘By design the composer is here less learned than in his other suites,’ remarked one early biographer, ‘and has mostly used a pleasing, more predominant melody.’ Just so, and the same is true of the pair of suites BWV 818 and 819 which fall outside the collection but belong with it in terms of style. To all of them Yuan Sheng brings considered tempi and precise articulation in the mould of Tureck. To Bach at his most uncomplicated, Sheng brings the virtues of simplicity and clarity.
Again Yuan Sheng draws the listener into his highly intelligent musical discourse, vibrant and moving, speaking through the medium of a modern Steinway piano.
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Artist: Yuan Sheng (piano)