“Music to combat grief” is John Eliot Gardiner’s apt description of Bach’s Actus Tragicus, coupled on this CD with a timely performance of the Easter Oratorio. Gardiner’s long, in-depth experience of ...
Bach’s Cantata No 106 is remarkable for its consoling mood and ethereal sound world, dominated by recorders and violas da gamba. Mark Seow assesses a range of approaches to the work ...
Raphaël Pichon and the Pygmalion ensemble join forces with a magnificent vocal ensemble to perform Johann Sebastian Bach's cantata Actus Tragicus, set to a work by Johann Michael Bach. Program : ...
The Belgian group Vox Luminis pares everything down to the smallest forces. For these early cantatas, eight singers and nine instrumentalists are the maximum used. Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit, ...
Mortgage crises occur even in the fantasy world of opera. Donizetti's Linda di Chamounix, which launched the Royal Opera's new season under the baton of Mark Elder, opens with a poor farming couple ...