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Fink's 'Vergnügte Ruh' is glorious: she floats the opening aria's long lines with the soaring nobility of a Janet Baker, potently complemented by the supple instrumental gravitas of the Freiburgers. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 2nd Feb 2009
Catalogue No: HMC902016
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Length: 76 minutes

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV169 'Gott soll allein mein Herze haben'

Work length24:50

$7.90

$9.75

Bernarda Fink, Freiburger Barockorchester, Petra Müllejans

I. Sinfonia

Track length7:39

$1.60

$1.95

II. Arioso "Gott soll allein mein Herze haben"

Track length2:40

$1.05

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III. Aria "Gott soll allein mein Herze haben"

Track length6:26

$1.05

$1.30

IV. Recitative "Was ist die Liebe Gottes"

Track length0:45

$1.05

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V. Aria "Stirb in mir, Welt, und alle deine Liebe"

Track length5:43

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VI. Recitative "Doch meint es auch dabei"

Track length0:24

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VII. Chorale "Du süße Liebe, schenk uns deine Gunst"

Track length1:13

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Bach, J S: Cantata BWV170 'Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust'

Work length24:18

$5.80

$7.15

Bernarda Fink, Freiburger Barockorchester, Petra Müllejans

I. Aria "Vergnügte Ruh! beliebte Seelenlust!"

Track length6:58

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II. Recitativo "Die Welt, das Sündenhaus"

Track length1:20

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III. Aria "Wie jammern mich doch die verkehrten Herzen"

Track length8:37

$1.60

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IV. Recitativo "Wer sollte sich demnach wohl hier zu leben wünschen"

Track length1:11

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V. Aria "Mir ekelt mehr zu leben"

Track length6:12

$1.05

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Bach, J S: Geist und Seele wird verwirret, BWV 35, Prima parte

Work length19:12

$4.75

$5.85

Bernarda Fink, Freiburger Barockorchester, Petra Müllejans

I. Sinfonia

Track length5:39

$1.05

$1.30

II. Aria "Geist und Seele wird verwirret"

Track length8:43

$1.60

$1.95

III. Recitativo "Ich wundre mich"

Track length1:29

$1.05

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IV. Aria "Gott hat alles wohlgemacht!"

Track length3:21

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Bach, J S: Geist und Seele wird verwirret, BWV 35, Seconda parte

Work length4:46

$2.10

$2.60

Bernarda Fink, Freiburger Barockorchester, Petra Müllejans

V. Sinfonia

Track length3:36

$1.05

$1.30

VI. Recitativo "Ach, starker Gott, laß mich"

Track length1:10

$1.05

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Bach, J S: Cantata, "Geist und Seele wird verwirret", BWV 35, Seconda parte: VII. Aria "Ich wünsche nur bei Gott zu leben"

Work length3:04

$1.05

$1.30

Petra Müllejans, Freiburger Barockorchester, Bernarda Fink

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In 1726 Bach entered a new period of creative innovation in Leipzig: renouncing the chorus, he built up a constant dialogue between solo arias and finely sculpted instrumental parts.The three cantatas presented here represent the culmination of this development, and have established their place as a peak of the recorded repertoire.

"If the public only knew it, singers of classical music can be diamonds every bit as rough as their rock counterparts. But the mezzo-soprano Bernarda Fink is a notable exception: graceful, poised and intelligent, she is every inch the lady, and it's no surprise to learn that she's wife to the Austrian ambassador to Slovenia, the country of her ancestors.This personal elegance colours her approach to performance. She doesn't deliver Bartoli-style show-stopping exhibitionism (she raises her eyebrows slightly when I mention the name), because she is a musician of an older and more dignified school, valuing refinement, subtlety and sensibility over fireworks, and she never sings louder than lovely. Yet there's nothing genteel or pallid about her golden-toned voice.The emotions she evokes in baroque music and Mozart, as well as the more romantic terrain of lieder, Berlioz and Mahler, are marvellously vivid. In the 1980s she moved to Europe, but nothing much happened until she met the conductor René Jacobs, a counter-tenor of note "who understood the way my voice worked" and led her towards the baroque repertory where she has happily dwelt ever since. Bach is her desert island composer, she says, with Monteverdi second. She has sung with Jacobs for almost 20 years, but is equally sought after by great names such as John Eliot Gardiner and Nikolaus Harnoncourt, alternating concerts with lieder recitals, the latter often with the English pianist Roger Vignoles. Opera plays a diminishing part in her schedule.As an ambassador's wife and mother to two, she dislikes being away for long periods and limits herself to "perhaps one set of performances a year": in 2008, it will be Idomeneo, in Barcelona." [with René Jacobs, recorded for harmonia mundi, June release 2009] The Daily Telegraph

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March 2009

Fink's 'Vergnügte Ruh' is glorious: she floats the opening aria's long lines with the soaring nobility of a Janet Baker, potently complemented by the supple instrumental gravitas of the Freiburgers.

2nd March 2009

Fink, with her versatile mezzo tone, meets the cantatas' challenges at all levels. The diction in clear, but her performance really stands out for it's control: vocal control, but also emotional. The feelings expressed are often passionate in the extreme, but her dramatically pared-down approach shuns any melodramatic temptations

May 2009

A Bernarda Fink recital of these works was always likely to establish itself with a profoundly engaging sense of poetic instinct and rhetorical ease… and she rarely disappoints. Vergnügte Ruh' (BWV170) exudes the greatest vocal and emotional comfort here...

8th February 2008

A disc to treasure.

22nd February 2009

Fink’s velvet-timbred mezzo evokes to perfection the consoling sentiment of Bach’s alto arias. Vergnügte Ruh has long been a favourite of star mezzos and countertenors, but Fink sings with an artless humility, with eloquent yet never overemphatic German, which is not only balm to the ear, but deeply moving. The other two cantatas may be less well known, but they each contain sublime arias, with elaborate instrumental embroidery superbly supplied by the Freiburg soloists. Unmissable.

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