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Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
- (01) Magnificat, Wq 215
- (10) Heilig ist Gott, Wq 217
- (12) Symphony in D major, Wq 183/1
Elizabeth Watts, soprano
Wiebke Lehmkuhl, mezzo-soprano
Lothar Odinius, tenor
Markus Eiche, bass
RIAS Kammerchor
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Hans-Christoph Rademann, conductor
Date: 2014
Label: Harmonia Mundi
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The Heilig (ie Sanctus) for double choir turns up on this Harmonia Mundi recording that recreates part of a Hamburg charity concert in 1786, the last time Bach directed in public. In a conspectus of his composing career, he also chose the Magnificat of 1749 plus the first of the four symphonies from 1775-76. This is slightly more classically poised than the Hamburg string symphonies but still intensely characteristic in its impassioned rhetoric and harmonic shocks. In part a homage to JS’s setting, the Magnificat can sometimes outstay its welcome, above all in the gargantuan final fugue. Not here. Hans-Christoph Rademann and his Berlin forces make the strongest possible case for it, with fresh, athletic choral singing, playing of crackling, fizzing energy and excellent solo work. Elizabeth Watts is true and touching in ‘Quia respexit’ and contralto Wiebke Lehmkuhl brings a mingled warmth and purity to the beautiful ‘Suscepit Israel’. Lehmkuhl also launches the Heilig, where the recording creates an ideal spatial separation between the distant angelic choir and the more ‘present’ chorus of nations on earth, singing in keys remote from each other. This is the finest recording of CPE’s choral masterpiece I have heard. Crowning the disc, the D major Symphony combines torrential energy, lyrical tenderness (in the hauntingly scored Largo) and, not least, transparency of texture, so that flutes and oboe lines really tell against the composer’s trademark swirling, scurrying strings. This looks set to be one of the discs of the CPE anniversary year.
-- Richard Wigmore, Gramophone
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (8 March 1714 – 14 December 1788) was a German Classical period musician and composer, the fifth child of Johann Sebastian Bach. C. P. E. Bach was an influential composer working at a time of transition between his father's Baroque style and the Classical style that followed it. Among his most popular and frequently recorded works are his symphonies, as well as many keyboard concertos and sonatas. Bach was also an influential pedagogue, writing the ever influential “Essay on the true art of playing keyboard instruments ” which would be studied by Haydn and Beethoven, among others.
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Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin (Akamus) is a German chamber orchestra founded in East Berlin in 1982. Each year Akamus gives circa 100 concerts, ranging from small chamber works to large-scale symphonic pieces in Europe as well as on tours in Asia, North America and South America. About 30 musicians form the core of the orchestra. They perform under the leadership of their four concertmasters or guest conductors. Recording exclusively for Harmonia Mundi since 1994, the ensemble’s CDs have earned many international prizes, including the Grammy, the Diapason d'Or, the Cannes Classical and the Gramophone Award.
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Hans-Christoph Rademann (born 5 August 1965 in Dresden) is a German choral conductor, currently the director of the Dresdner Kammerchor and the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart. He studied choral and orchestral conducting at the Musikhochschule Dresden, and acquired further experience with Helmuth Rilling and Philippe Herreweghe. Rademann has conducted the chamber choir Dresdner Kammerchor since its founding in 1985, and was chief conductor of the RIAS Kammerchor from 2007 to 2015. In 2013 Rademann succeeded Helmuth Rilling as director of the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart.
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