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Countertenor David Daniels is the most electrifying singer of the present day, with a voice of matchless beauty at the service of the finest musical sensibility. — BBC Music Magazine More…

Release Date: 25th Aug 2008
Catalogue No: 5190372
Label: Erato
Length: 66 minutes

Excerpt, Bach, J S: Mass in B minor, BWV232

Work length9:37

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David Daniels (countertenor), Katharina Spreckelsen (oboe)
The English Concert
Harry Bicket
Recorded: 2007-09-17
Recording Venue: 13-17 Sept 07, St-Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London NW11

Qui sedes (ad dextram Patris)

Track length4:16

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Agnus Dei

Track length5:21

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Excerpt, Bach, J S: St John Passion, BWV245

Work length10:04

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David Daniels (countertenor), Hannah McLaughlin (oboe), Jonathan Manson (viola da gamba), Katharina Spreckelsen (oboe)
The English Concert
Harry Bicket
Recorded: 2007-09-17
Recording Venue: 13-17 Sept 07, St-Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London NW11

Von den Striken meiner Sünden mich zu entbinder

Track length4:46

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Es ist vollbracht

Track length5:18

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Excerpt, Bach, J S: St Matthew Passion, BWV244

Work length20:01

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David Daniels (countertenor), Guy Williams (flute), Nadja Zwiener (violin), Lisa Beznosiuk (flute)
The English Concert
Harry Bicket
Recorded: 2007-09-17
Recording Venue: 13-17 Sept 07, St-Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London NW11

Recitativo: Du lieber Heiland d

Track length0:52

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Buß und Reu

Track length4:18

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Erbarme dich

Track length6:48

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Recitativo: Erbarmes Gott!

Track length1:01

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Können Tranen meiner Wangen nichts erlangen

Track length7:02

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Bach, J S: Ich habe Genug (Cantata BWV 82a)

Work length16:55

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David Daniels (countertenor), Katharina Spreckelsen (oboe)
The English Concert
Harry Bicket
Recorded: 2007-09-17
Recording Venue: 13-17 Sept 07, St-Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London NW11

Ich habe Genug

Track length6:47

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Schlummert ein

Track length10:08

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

Work length5:44

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David Daniels (tenor), Katharina Spreckelsen (oboe)
The English Concert
Harry Bicket
Recorded: 2007-09-17
Recording Venue: 13-17 Sept 07, St-Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London NW11

Vergnugte Rüh, beliebte Seelenlust

Track length5:44

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Excerpt, Bach, J S: Cantata BWV208 'Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd!'

Work length4:20

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David Daniels (countertenor), Merlin Harrison (flute), Pamela Thorby (flute)
The English Concert
Harry Bicket
Recorded: 2007-09-17
Recording Venue: 13-17 Sept 07, St-Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London NW11

Schafe Können sicher weiden

Track length4:20

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It has been a several years since David Daniels’ last recital for Virgin Classics – in 2004 the renowned countertenor explored Berlioz’ Les Nuits d’Eté - and his most recent recital of Baroque works, the critically acclaimed Oratorio Arias by Handel, dates back to 2002.

For this new release, Daniels returns to sacred works of the Baroque era with this programme of sacred arias and cantatas by Bach. He lends his beautiful countertenor voice and immense musicianship to this programme of famous cantatas, namely “Ich habe genug”, and arias from Bach’s Mass in B minor and the Saint Matthew’s and Saint John’s Passions. The programme was recorded in London in September 2007.

Accompanying David Daniels, Harry Bicket conducts The English Concert, considered to be one of the finest chamber orchestras for interpretations of Baroque and Classical music. Harry Bicket, the ensemble’s new musical director, is renowned worldwide for his performances of Baroque opera with many of the leading singers of the age, and forthcoming TEC seasons will include exciting collaborations with Sara Mingardo, Jonathan Lemalu, David Daniels, Anna-Caterina Antonacci, Mark Padmore and others.

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Countertenor David Daniels is the most electrifying singer of the present day, with a voice of matchless beauty at the service of the finest musical sensibility.

September 2008

Countertenor David Daniels is a highly sensitive exponent - his voice pliant, ethereal, androgynous; responsive to the subtlest nuances of text and phrase, if occasionally over-indulgent in his use of vibrato for expressive effect.

November 2008

David Daniels is the ultimate in theatrical immediacy and a soaring, visceral and open-throated emotionalism.

22nd August 2008

What other voice could glide so prayerfully, so cleanly, in the Agnus Dei from the B Minor Mass? As for the lengthy sleep aria from Ich habe genug (a cantata usually assigned to the bass voice), Daniels is the lullaby king, soft and gracious to a nicety.
Heavenly stuff, in its way, especially considered moment by moment. The trouble lies more in the singing’s cumulative effect, and the dawning of the CD’s biggest vice: lack of variety. Though Bach can be a majestic musical dramatist, the gear-changes in Daniels’s pick of arias from the Mass, the two Passions and three cantatas are relatively small – subtle gradations of faith, hope and charity. What’s more, there are no chorales or choruses, Bach’s music of the people, to offer a different vocal perspective.
Beautiful musicianship is displayed throughout. But the end product remains frustrating: a Bach CD that feels overly lofty and precious, drained of too much blood.

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