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AJ 0658
Bach: Redemption
Label Catalogue Number:
ALPHA658
ALPHA658
Running Time: 79:49
Release Date: June 2020
Originally recorded in 2019
Originally recorded in 2019
Genre:
Baroque
Baroque
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About
Anna Prohaska asked Wolfgang Katschner and the Lautten Compagney at the outset of the coronavirus crisis whether they shouldn’t spontaneously organize a musical get-together in this period. This has now resulted in Redemption.
This is a sequence of music selected solely from Bach cantatas, compiled in keeping with the aforenamed conceptual association. Redemption has multiple meanings, for instance: can music give us consolation in times of sickness and crisis; can it open up emotional and contemplative spaces for us; is it redemptive for us as musicians to be the “instruments” in engendering music and therefore spirituality… ?
Besides Anna as soloist and three other singers, Redemption features a larger group of musicians – around twenty instrumentalists. These musicians serve a dual role: they expertly accompany the arias that Anna sings and they also represent the concept of human interaction and a shared collective experience which has been missing during these times.
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Reviews
“… Each track is lovely (even the encore) and it is all well performed …”
Robert A Moore – American Record Guide – March/April 2021
“… Each track is lovely (even the encore) and it is all well performed …”
Robert A Moore – American Record Guide – March/April 2021
Performance *** Recording ****
Nicholas Anderson – BBC Music magazine – January 2021
Nominee in Baroque Vocal Category
International Classical Music Awards 2021
“… Prohaska is in beautiful voice, her tone even and silvery, her coloratura accurate and expressive. ‘ich habe genug’ dances almost joyously, and ‘Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten’ sounds exquisite … Lautten Compagney’s playing has an uncompromising, austere beauty and the string and woodwind obbligatoes are simply ravishing. Extraordinarily moving, it really does offer consolation in dark times. Do listen to it.”
Tim Ashley – Gramophone magazine – November 2020
“… With good recording, especially as heard in 24-bit format, and useful, if short, notes, I expect to return frequently to this album.”
Brian Wilson – MusicWeb-International.com – 24 July 2020
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