Gundula Janowitz
Christa Ludwig
Peter Schreier
Horst Laubenthal
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Walter Berry
Anton Diakov
Herbert Von Karajan: Berliner Philharmoniker; Wiener Singverein
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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 46 [18:53]
BWV 101 [25:01]
BWV 102 [21:25]
Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner
Vol. 5 CD 2
Live recordings at Dom, Braunschweig, Germany.
“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)