An Intriguing Bach Cantata playlist by the AAM

Par Nahoko Gotoh, 21 janvier 2020

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“Suzuki was effortlessly brilliant in his organ solo and sympathetic in accompanying the recitatives”

Critique faite à Guildhall School of Music & Drama: Milton Court Concert Hall, Londres, le 19 janvier 2020

Bach, Ich steh mit einem Fuss im Grabe, Cantata, BWV156: Sinfonia

Bach, Schwingt freudig euch empor - Cantata, BWV36: Willkommen, werter Schatz!

Bach, St Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Am Abend, da es kühle war

Bach, La Passion selon Saint Matthieu, BWV244 : Mache dich, mein Herze, rein

Bach, Sonate pour violon et clavier no. 4 en ut mineur, BWV1017 (Siciliano. Largo)

Bach, Ich habe genug - Cantata, BWV82

Bach, Wir müssen durch viel Trübsal - Cantata, BWV146 : Sinfonia

Bach, Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen - Cantata, BWV56

Bach, Ich habe meine Zuversicht - Cantata, BWV188: sinfonia

Bach, Air sur la corde de sol, d'après la Suite pour orchestre BWV1068

Bach, Sehet, wir gehn hinauf gen Jerusalem - Cantata, BWV159: Es ist vollbracht

Bach, Sehet, wir gehn hinauf gen Jerusalem - Cantata, BWV159: Jesu deine Passion

Bach, Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV147: Jesu bleibet meine Freude (Jésus que ma joie demeure)

Benjamin Appl, Baryton

Leo Duarte, Hautbois

Academy of Ancient Music

Masato Suzuki, Orgue, Direction

Cummings and the AAM win ‘Leipzig's Got Talent’

Nick Boston, 16th April

The Academy of Ancient Music poses the question what might have been in Leipzig with stunning performances of Bach and his competitors to be the new Thomaskantor.

*****

Freudian slip: Handel’s Tamerlano recast as Trumpian tantrums

Mark Pullinger, 26th March

Opha Phelan’s staging presents the action as a grand, Freudian social experiment. It’s a risk – but the production is lifted by outstanding performances from the cast and the Academy of Ancient Music.

***11

Ed Lyon excels in Monteverdi’s Songs of Love and War

Stephen Pritchard, 12th February

Tenor Ed Lyon fulfils a long-held ambition to sing Monteverdi's Eighth Book of Madrigals, conducted by his former teacher, Laurence Cummings at Milton Court.

*****

Strong team for a Good Friday St John Passion

Roy Westbrook, 18th April

The greatest music of the 18th century – no arguments, please – is given a fine reading at London's Barbican.

****1

Academy of Ancient Music delivers a majestic Messiah

Charlotte Gardner, 16th December

Laurence Cummings and the AAM serve up Messiah-shaped serenity at the Barbican.

****1

Actéon and Pygmalion: three transformations for the price of two

Roy Westbrook, 9th October

Ovid’s Metamorphoses makes an ideal curtain-raiser to the Academy of Ancient Music's new season, with works by Charpentier and Rameau conducted by Laurence Cummings... who also sings!

****1

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Nahoko Gotoh

Nahoko is a UK-based Japanese music journalist with a background in musicology. She writes regularly for various Japanese media including Ongaku no tomo and Mostly Classic magazines.