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Bach: Solo Cantatas For Bass, Bwv 52, 82, 158

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Composer
BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN
Artist
Greco
Format
CD
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
Oct 04, 2019
Catalog #
BRI95942
UPC
5028421959429

About

Having studied with the great Bach bass Peter Kooy - who has made his own distinguished recordings of these solo albums - David Greco has established himself as a fine interpreter of oratorio and opera throughout Australia and Europe. He has sung with Ton Koopman's Amsterdam Baroque Soloists as well as Monteverdi with Le Nuove Musiche - acclaimed for their Brilliant Classics recordings of the madrigals - and taken the role of Aeneas in Purcell's opera at the Brisbane Baroque Festival. David Greco's partnership with Luthers Bach Ensemble stretches back to his time as a student in The Netherlands in 2009, and this album marks the culmination of over a decade of performing the works of J.S Bach together. These solo bass cantatas are often reserved for singers of more mature years due to their weighty themes of worldly fatigue, death and redemption, but the interpretations here are infused with youth and cosmopolitan openness, with the aim of finding a united expression and interpretation in order to pay tribute to the universal nature of J.S Bach's music, and to the personal, touching expression at the heart of each musical phrase. 'I've always had a deep affinity for this music,' says David Greco, who enjoyed a breakthrough moment in appearances with Dame Emma Kirkby, doyenne of early-music sopranos. 'I think it's an aesthetic thing because I find it to be super passionate and Romantic in the truest sense of the word. The boundless possibilities of expression interest me very much and I just feel so at home with it.' These three cantatas all date from the full flower of Bach's maturity as Capellmeister to the Church of St Thomas in Leipzig. All three explore the very Lutheran longing for death as a state in which the soul is reunited with God in peace, finally relieved from earthly torments. Lamentation and consolation are thus united in arias of sublime beauty.

Tracklist 14 tracks

  1. 1 Aria: Ich habe genug 06:46
    Track
    1
    Title
    Aria: Ich habe genug
    Duration
    06:46
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    David Greco, Amy Power
    Ensemble
    Luthers Bach Ensemble
    Conductor
    Tymen Jan Bronda
  2. 2 Recitative: Ich habe genug! Mein Trost ist nur allein 01:25
    Track
    2
    Title
    Recitative: Ich habe genug! Mein Trost ist nur allein
    Duration
    01:25
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    David Greco
    Ensemble
    Luthers Bach Ensemble
    Conductor
    Tymen Jan Bronda
  3. 3 Aria: Schlummert ein, ihr matten Augen 08:54
    Track
    3
    Title
    Aria: Schlummert ein, ihr matten Augen
    Duration
    08:54
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    David Greco, Amy Power
    Ensemble
    Luthers Bach Ensemble
    Conductor
    Tymen Jan Bronda
  4. 4 Recitative: Mein Gott! Wann kömmt das schöne 00:52
    Track
    4
    Title
    Recitative: Mein Gott! Wann kömmt das schöne
    Duration
    00:52
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    David Greco
    Ensemble
    Luthers Bach Ensemble
    Conductor
    Tymen Jan Bronda
  5. 5 Aria: Ich freue mich auf meinen Tod 03:30
    Track
    5
    Title
    Aria: Ich freue mich auf meinen Tod
    Duration
    03:30
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    David Greco, Amy Power
    Ensemble
    Luthers Bach Ensemble
    Conductor
    Tymen Jan Bronda
  6. 6 Recitative: Der Freide sei mit dir 01:46
    Track
    6
    Title
    Recitative: Der Freide sei mit dir
    Duration
    01:46
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    David Greco, Joanna Huszcza
    Ensemble
    Luthers Bach Ensemble
    Conductor
    Tymen Jan Bronda
  7. 7 Aria: Welt, ade, ich bin dein müde 06:10
    Track
    7
    Title
    Aria: Welt, ade, ich bin dein müde
    Duration
    06:10
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    David Greco, Joanna Huszcza
    Ensemble
    Luthers Bach Ensemble
    Conductor
    Tymen Jan Bronda
  8. 8 Recitative and Arioso: Nun Herr, regiere meinen Sinn 01:20
    Track
    8
    Title
    Recitative and Arioso: Nun Herr, regiere meinen Sinn
    Duration
    01:20
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    David Greco, Joanna Huszcza
    Ensemble
    Luthers Bach Ensemble
    Conductor
    Tymen Jan Bronda
  9. 9 Chorale: Hier ist das rechte Osterlamm 01:04
    Track
    9
    Title
    Chorale: Hier ist das rechte Osterlamm
    Duration
    01:04
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    David Greco, Joanna Huszcza
    Ensemble
    Luthers Bach Ensemble
    Conductor
    Tymen Jan Bronda
  10. 10 Aria: Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen (Bass) 06:35
    Track
    10
    Title
    Aria: Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen (Bass)
    Duration
    06:35
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    David Greco, Amy Power
    Ensemble
    Luthers Bach Ensemble
    Conductor
    Tymen Jan Bronda
  11. 11 Recitative: Mein Wandel auf der Welt (Bass) 01:53
    Track
    11
    Title
    Recitative: Mein Wandel auf der Welt (Bass)
    Duration
    01:53
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    David Greco
    Ensemble
    Luthers Bach Ensemble
    Conductor
    Tymen Jan Bronda
  12. 12 Aria: Endlich, endlich wird mein Joch (Bass) 06:28
    Track
    12
    Title
    Aria: Endlich, endlich wird mein Joch (Bass)
    Duration
    06:28
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    David Greco, Amy Power
    Ensemble
    Luthers Bach Ensemble
    Conductor
    Tymen Jan Bronda
  13. 13 Recitative and Aria: Ich stehe fertig und bereit (Bass) 01:21
    Track
    13
    Title
    Recitative and Aria: Ich stehe fertig und bereit (Bass)
    Duration
    01:21
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    David Greco
    Ensemble
    Luthers Bach Ensemble
    Conductor
    Tymen Jan Bronda
  14. 14 Komm, o Tod, du Schlafes Bruder (Soprano, Counter-Tenor, Tenor, Bass) 01:22
    Track
    14
    Title
    Komm, o Tod, du Schlafes Bruder (Soprano, Counter-Tenor, Tenor, Bass)
    Duration
    01:22
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    David Greco
    Ensemble
    Luthers Bach Ensemble
    Conductor
    Tymen Jan Bronda