Cantates pour alto
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Composer: Johann Sebastian BachConductor: Philippe Herreweghe
Performer: Andreas Scholl
Performer: Marcel Ponseele
Orchestra: Collegium Vocale Orchestra
Performer: Markus Markl
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 1998-04-14
Music Label: Harmonia Mundi Fr.
Soundtracks:
- Aria: Vergnugte Ruh! beliebte Seelenlust! (BWV 170)
- Cantatas for solo alto: Die Welt, das Sundenhaus
- Aria: Wie jammern mich doch die verkehrten Herzen
- Cantatas for solo alto: Wer sollte sich demnach
- Aria: Mir ekelt mehr zu leben
- Aria: Wilderstehe doch de Sunde (BWV 54)
- Cantatas for solo alto: Die Art verruchter Sunden
- Aria: Wer Sunde tut, der ist vom Teufel
- Cantatas for solo alto: Conerto (BWV 35)
- Aria: Geist und Seele wird verwirret
- Cantatas for solo alto: Ich wundre mich
- Aria: Gott hat alles wohlgemacht!
- Cantatas for solo alto: Sinfonia
- Cantatas for solo alto: Ach, starker Gott, lass mich
- Aria: Ich wunsche nur bei Gott zu leben
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SCHOLL SINGING IN HIS NATIVE LANGUAGE: SUPERB!
Three of Bach's four cantatas for solo alto were written within the period of a few months in the year, 1726. It is surmised by musicologists that they were written for a specific singer, for they are very difficult, and not easily sung by the moderately skilled personage. There are strenuous technical demands on the vocal and expressive qualities of the singer, who must be an accomplished coloratura capable of expressive cantible singing as well as possessing accurate intonation. A female or a castrato voice were out of the question, but a high falsetto was not.
German theological tradition reaching far back into the 17th century endowed each of the 4 human voice types with symbolic connotation. The theologian Theodor Schneider writes:"The bass is appointed/that was the belief/to be seen by Jesus/who is the basis and foundation of our salvation; you Descants/trebles,sopranos/soar on high/and thus/let your prayer penetrate the clouds/and do not erase/until you reach the Almighty Trinity;see/they open up the roof on high and set poor man down before the feet of the Lord Jesus;the Holy Ghost himself bore the Alto(s) and caused them/if not with their mouths/ yet with their hearts to cry: Jesus/ you Son of David/have mercy on us!" The alto was accorded the voice of the Holy Ghost. All three of these cantatas are very attractive and quite interesting.
I especially liked the first one, although all three were very well performed by Andreas Scholl. He is in his element when he sings in his native language. The translated title of these cantatas are: BWV170 "Contented Rest, BWV54 "Pray resist all sin"; BWV35 "Mind and spirit are bewildered".
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