Bach & Telemann: Cantatas for Baritone

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Flaws in [instrumental] intonation are hard to overlook. But the solo playing is characterful and visceral, and inner lines in the texture emerge with clarity…Prégardien, who has enjoyed a long... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 4th May 2018
Catalogue No: 19075834122
Label: Deutsche HM
Length: 67 minutes

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Fasch, J F: Overture in G minor FWVK:g2

Work length10:19

Vox Orchester
Lorenzo Ghirlanda

Telemann: Was gibst du denn, o meine Seele TVWV 1:1510

Work length11:14

Christoph Prégardien (baritone), Vox Orchester
Lorenzo Ghirlanda

I. Choral

Track length1:04

II. Recitativo

Track length0:53

III. Aria

Track length4:17

IV. Recitativo

Track length2:10

V. Aria

Track length1:01

VI. Choral

Track length1:49

Telemann: Jesus liegt in letzten Zuegen TVWV 1:983

Work length15:11

Christoph Prégardien (baritone), Vox Orchester
Lorenzo Ghirlanda

I. Aria

Track length5:53

II. Recitativo

Track length1:19

III. Aria

Track length4:40

IV. Recitativo

Track length0:41

V. Aria

Track length2:38

Excerpt, Telemann: Overture (Suite) TWV 55:d3 in D minor for 3 oboes, bassoon, strings & b.c.

Work length7:47

Vox Orchester
Lorenzo Ghirlanda

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV56 'Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen'

Work length18:55

Christoph Prégardien (baritone), Vox Orchester
Lorenzo Ghirlanda

I. Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen (Aria)

Track length7:04

II. Mein Wandel auf der Welt (Recitativo)

Track length1:46

III. Endlich, endlich wird mein Joch (Aria)

Track length6:24

IV. Ich stehe fertig und bereit (Recitativo)

Track length1:48

V. Komm, o Tod, du Schlafes Bruder (Choral)

Track length1:53

Handel: Concerto grosso, Op. 6 No. 4 in A minor, HWV322: I. Larghetto affetuoso

Work length3:39

Vox Orchester
Lorenzo Ghirlanda

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A famous cantata for baritone by Johann Sebastian Bach (“Kreuzstabkantate”), combined with two cantatas by Georg Philipp Telemann. In addition and as a supplementary musical colour there are three purely instrumental pieces: overtures by J. F. Fasch and Telemann, and as an “encore”, the Larghetto from Handel’s Concerto Grosso Op. 6/4.

Christoph Prégardien was and is well known as one of the most versatile lyric tenors of our time. Actually, he now more and more discovers the “lower” musical repertoire for baritones and bass baritones. The legendary Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau has been one of the most famous interpreters of Bach’s “Kreuzstabkantate”. To compete with such an important predecessor is a great challenge and interesting undertaking for the artist.

The Vox Orchestra represents a selection of young and enthusiastic musicians. They all grew up with the practically trained knowledge about historically informed performances. The combination of these musical “hotheads” with the experienced Christoph Prégardien is particularly attractive.

Bach’s cantata ends with the moving and impressive chorale “Komm, o Tod, du Schlafes Bruder” (“Come, o death, brother of sleep”). On our album, this chorale is sung by the young musicians of the orchestra themselves, who were especially trained for this occasion by Christoph Prégardien.

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August 2018

Flaws in [instrumental] intonation are hard to overlook. But the solo playing is characterful and visceral, and inner lines in the texture emerge with clarity…Prégardien, who has enjoyed a long career as a lyric tenor, brings his considerable intelligence and poise to this music, together with immaculately crisp enunciation…He sometimes sounds unconvinced by the orchestra’s motoric chugging, and weaves his lines separately to great effect.

May 2018

In his first recording billed as a baritone, Prégardien sounds in excellent vocal shape, capitalising on the darkness that was always inherent in his instrument rather than manufacturing artificial colours, and treating the text with the same care which makes his Lieder interpretations so special; the relatively rare Telemann cantatas are a particular joy, and the period band are energetic and incisive.

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