Damien Guillon sings Bach
Jan. 19th, 2013 12:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylI'm completely sold on CD Review's latest disc of the week: Damien Guillon, le Banquet Céleste, and Maude Gratton performing Bach cantatas in Strasbourg. The whole thing is a delight, but the decision to use the church organ in the ensemble is positively inspired: the sound is very nicely balanced against the rest of the ensemble and it positively sparkles in the obbligato parts aria Mir ekelt mehr zu leben.
Definitely one to add to the list.
ETA: I'm happy to say the disc more than lives up to the promises of the excerpts on CD Review. The two cantatas for solo alto, BWVs 35 and 170, are superb and show off the talents of the performers to great advantage. Maude Gratton is quite superb, both as primus inter pares in the two large scale concerto movements of Geist und Seele wird verwirret, as accompanist in Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust, and as soloist in the third trio sonata and the dramatic Fantasia and Fugue in G-minor.
Very, very good stuff.
Definitely one to add to the list.
ETA: I'm happy to say the disc more than lives up to the promises of the excerpts on CD Review. The two cantatas for solo alto, BWVs 35 and 170, are superb and show off the talents of the performers to great advantage. Maude Gratton is quite superb, both as primus inter pares in the two large scale concerto movements of Geist und Seele wird verwirret, as accompanist in Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust, and as soloist in the third trio sonata and the dramatic Fantasia and Fugue in G-minor.
Very, very good stuff.
