Recensies
Recensie over CD met Bachmotetten bij “Classics Today.com”
06.05.2008“Finally, here is a recording of Bach’s motets (sung at sensible tempos) that employs a moderately-sized choir (two dozen voices—no “one-to-a-part” stuff here!), a simple basso continuo (organ and cello), and doesn’t get hung up on the “did he or didn’t he” nonsense regarding BWV 230 (Lobet den Herrn), rightly including it among the “standard six” works Bach composed in this rather vaguely defined genre.”
“Conductor Peter Dijkstra is not as concerned with particular means of articulation as he is with the importance of “the vocal line”, which he regards as paramount—but of course, his care for the one results in exceptionally clear, clean expression of the other, transmitted with his choir’s impressively vibrant energy and authoritative style. These motets never have sounded so fresh, alive, and exciting as on this Channel Classics recording, nor has a choir so proficiently and artfully demonstrated the ingenious and powerful musical dialogues in the double-choir works or more handily elucidated the profoundly difficult and complex movements of Jesu, meine Freude.”
David Vernier op ClassicsToday.com. Lees hier het volledige artikel.
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