Bach: Cantatas/Thomas Quasthoff
表演者: Thomas Quasthoff (Bass Baritone)/Rainer Kussmaul (Violin)/Albrecht Mayer (Oboe)/Berlin RIAS Chamber Chorus/Rainer Kussmaul(Conductor)
介质: Audio CD
发行时间: 2004-11-09
唱片数: 1
出版者: Deutsche Grammophon
条形码: 0028947753261
专辑简介
This album received the 2006 Grammy Award for "Best Classical Vocal Performance."
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Cantatas 56 and 82 have often been paired on disc - recordings by such great bass-baritones as Hermann Prey and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (several times) come to mind. Now the magnificent Thomas Quasthoff adds his unique combination of dark tone, intense delivery (just listen to his very first words in No. 56--"I will gladly bear my cross"--sung with such weight one can almost picture the cross itself), and technical perfection to the batch. His delivery of 56's aria "Endlich, endlich" is quick and impeccably delivered, long runs and all. Or listen to the lullabye in No. 82, "Schlummert ein," so gorgeously, seamlessly intoned, that it brings peace and beauty all by itself. All three cantatas are expressions of suffering, and Quasthoff conveys it perfectly, but always with his eye on the prize - salvation. His diction is so clear that the German text might as well be English. The Berliner Barock Solisten play with unmatched beauty and the solo oboist deserves special praise. These are ravishing performances of three great works and this CD cannot be recommended highly enough. --Robert Levine
曲目
Cantata No. 56, "Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen," BWV 56 (BC A146)
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
with Thomas Quasthoff, Berliner Barock Solisten, Albrecht Mayer
Conducted by Rainer Kussmaul
Cantata No. 158, "Der Friede sei mit dir," BWV 158 (BC A61)
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
with Thomas Quasthoff, Berliner Barock Solisten, Albrecht Mayer
Conducted by Rainer Kussmaul
Cantata No. 82, "Ich habe genug," BWV 82 (BC A169)
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
with Thomas Quasthoff, Berliner Barock Solisten, Albrecht Mayer
Conducted by Rainer Kussmaul