The Bach family is vast and on this disc we have music of six members: Johann Sebastian, three of his sons and two relatives from ancillary lines, one of those a few years older than Johann Sebastian. Four of the eight works are first-time recordings, but it is still a bit uncertain whether the first three of them were written by Wilhelm Friedemann and Carl Philipp Emanuel. The excellent liner notes investigate this at some length, even though it is not an open-and-shut case. Not that it matters very much as long as it is good music – and it is. (...) “I see the future of Baroque orchestral music in the hands of modern ensembles – the fetish of the ‘original instrument’ has had its day, but not the profoundly trained professional who guides an orchestra into the deeper dimensions of the composition. For it isn’t the instrument that makes the music, but the head!”, he [Reinhard Goebel] says in the notes. (...)|
Bevat o.a. ook: Corrente nona (uit: Il ballo del gran duca op.16) / Giovanni Legrenzi. Ciaccona / Alessandro Piccinini. - 1. Con che soavita / Claudio Monteverdi. 2. Lamento della regina d'Inghilterra / Antonio Bertali. 3. Cantate, alt, strijkorkest, RV.684 "Cessate, omai cessate" / Antonio Vivaldi. 4. Lamento d'Arianna a voce sola / Claudio Monteverdi. 5. Incassum, Lesbia, Z. 383 "The Queen's epicedium" / Henry Purcell. 6. O solitude, Z.406 / Henry Purcell. - UITV.: Anne Sofie Von Otter (sopraan) ; Franz-Josef Selig (bas) ; Jakob Lindberg (theorbe) ; Musica Antiqua Koln ; Reinhard Goebel (dirigent). - Archiv 457 617-2
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