Cantata - Yet Can I Hear / Mehta, Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin

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Label
PENTATONE
Release Date
March 16, 2018
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BACH HANDEL HOFFMANN VIVALD
    • PERFORMER
      Mehta, Akademie Fur Alte Musik Berlin
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      March 16, 2018
    • UPC
      827949066962
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      PTC5186669
    • LABEL
      PENTATONE
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Recitative: Mi palpita il cor - Aria: Agitata è l'alma mia - Recitative: Tormento e gelosia

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: Bejun Mehta

    2. Aria: Ho tanti affanni in petto

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: Bejun Mehta, Christoph Huntgeburth

    3. Recitative: Clori di te mi lagno

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: Bejun Mehta

    4. Aria: Se un di m'adora la mia crudele

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: Bejun Mehta, Christoph Huntgeburth

    5. Aria: Ich habe genug

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: Bejun Mehta, Xenia Löffler

    6. Recitative: Ich habe genug! Mein Trost ist nur allein

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: Bejun Mehta

    7. Aria: Schlummert ein, ihr matten Augen

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: Bejun Mehta

    8. Recitative: Mein Gott! Wann kömmt das schöne

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: Bejun Mehta

    9. Aria: Ich freue mich auf meinen Tod

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: Bejun Mehta, Xenia Löffler

    10. Schlage doch, gewünschte Stunde

      Composer: Melchior Hoffmann

      Ensemble: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: Bejun Mehta, Xenia Löffler

    11. Siete rose rugiadose, HWV 162: Aria: Siete rose rugiadose

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: Bejun Mehta

    12. Recitative: Pianti, sospiri e dimandar mercede

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: Bejun Mehta

    13. Aria: Lusinga è del nocchier

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: Bejun Mehta

    14. Recitative: O ingannato nocchiero

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: Bejun Mehta

    15. Aria: Cor ingrato, dispietato

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: Bejun Mehta

    16. Ach, dass ich Wassers gnug hätte

      Composer: Johann Christoph Bach

      Ensemble: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: Bejun Mehta

    17. I will magnify Thee, O God, HWV 250b: Air: I will magnify thee, O God my King

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: Bejun Mehta, Xenia Löffler

    18. Recitative: Oh cease, enchanting Siren!

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: Bejun Mehta

    19. Air: Yet, can I hear that dulcet lay

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: Bejun Mehta


This album contains a selection of solo cantatas, both secular and sacred, from the Italian, German, and English traditions. Including works by Handel, Vivaldi, and Bach in settings large and small, with obbligato instruments ranging from oboe to chimes, the magnificent cantatas on this album create a portrait of this intimately transcendent repertoire. With ‘Cantata; yet can I hear…,’ the American countertenor Bejun Mehta releases his first album on Pentatone. Hailed as “arguably the best countertenor in the world today” by the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Mehta here joins forces with the players of the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, one of the most renowned early music ensembles of today. Mehta writes: “This is by far the most personal recording I have ever made. Unlike Lieder, which as miniatures often work their magic in impressionistic ways, or opera, which unleashes human passions to their largest and most raw expression, solo cantatas lie in the middle and take the singer on a highly specific conversation with himself as he grapples with the subject at hand.”