Buxtehude: Sacred Cantatas
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Composer: Dietrich BuxtehudeConductor: Kevin Mallon
Performer: Matthew White
Performer: Aradia Ensemble
Performer: Katherine Hill
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-10-19
Music Label: Naxos
Soundtracks:
- Was Frag' Ich Nach Der Welt, BuxWV 104
- Jesu, Meine Freud Und Lust, BuxWV 59
- Sicut Moses, BuxWV 97
- Passacaglia, BuxWV 161
- Wenn Ich, Herr Jesu, Habe Dich, BuxWV 107
- In Te, Domine, Speravi, BuxWV 53
- Jubilate Domino, BuxWV 64
- Wie Schmeckt Es So Lieblich Und Wohl, BuxWV 108
Music reviews of Buxtehude: Sacred Cantatas
Music Review: Buxtehude Cantatas in Sparkling Performances
Rating: 4 Stars
The Aradia Ensemble has become one of Canada's, and the world's, best baroque groups. They have now recorded more than a dozen CDs on the Naxos label. This is, as far as I know, their first go at the music of Dietrich Buxtehude (ca. 1637-1707) but one hopes it won't be their last. This CD contains six sacred cantatas, all for solo singers or small vocal ensembles accompanied by small instrumental group (including at times baroque violins, viola, cello, viola da gamba, violone, theorbo and positif organ) all led by Kevin Mallon. The styles vary according to the forces called for. All have instrumental introductions, the complexity of which is determined by the form of the subsequent text and its treatment for voices and instruments. Most familiar is 'Jubilate Domino' sung with laserlike intonation and sweet tone by countertenor Matthew White. This 9-minute hymn of praise begins with a long string/organ introduction that gives us materials that are then used in the florid sung line. The form is semi-strophic, with solo instrumental intermezzi between the verses. White's solo singing is also heard in 'Jesu, meine Freud und Lust,' and 'Wenn ich, Herr Jesu, habe dich' as well as in the three cantatas that call for the singing of all three soloists. He is clearly the star of this issue and one predicts a big career for him.
Katherine Hill, a clear-voiced soprano of the Emma Kirkby stripe, is heard in another solo cantata, 'Sicut Moses' ('As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up'). The three soloists (including bass Paul Grindlay) are heard together in three other cantatas, 'Was frag' ich nach der Welt, 'In te, Domine, speravi,' and the dramatic 9-minute 'Wie schmeckt es so lieblich und wohl' ('How lovely and good the saviour') with its introduction and instrumental ritornelli, passages for combined voices as well as those for each of the soloists. This is a virtuoso work, calling for exciting (and expertly done) fioriture from the singers and solo playing from the instrumentalists.
The CD also contains the familiar Passacaglia in D minor, BuxWV 161 (originally for organ) arranged by Mallon for strings. I prefer it on the organ, but it is nonetheless an effective transcription. (It might be added that pitch on this CD seems to be pretty close to modern concert A=440, not radically lowered as it so often is in baroque recordings.) Sound is clean and lifelike.
Scott Morrison
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Description of Buxtehude: Sacred Cantatas
The works recorded here illustrate Buxtehude?s masterful command of the huge variety of styles that characterized the sacred cantata in Germany during the seventeenth century. Each begins with an instrumental passage, and sung text is interspersed with instrumental responses, sometimes in strophic form. In the larger cantatas for all three voices, the music allows for the maximum of contrast, whereas the four solo cantatas give a more intimate expression of Buxtehude?s craft. Into the latter category falls the extremely virtuosic Jubilate Domino, one of Buxtehude?s best-known cantatas.Classical CDs
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