Author: JS Bach

Format: Remixes included

Release Date: 08-06-1999

Details: Product Description Bruce Haynes Amazon.ca This release is basically a showcase for two outstanding Canadian specialists in baroque music--countertenor Daniel Taylor and oboist Bruce Haynes. The centerpieces of the disc are Bach arias for alto with obbligato oboe d'amore (a slightly lower-pitched version of an oboe, rather like the modern English horn), including "Qui sedes" from the B Minor Mass and the eager "Saget , saget mir geschwinde" from the Easter Oratorio. Also included are two cheerful, charming oboe concertos (actually transcriptions back from harpsichord concertos that evidently originated as works for a melody instrument such as oboe or violin). Taylor definitely has a light lyric voice--he isn't at his best as, say, the castrato hero in a Handel opera such as Rodelinda, but he's delightful in Bach's sacred works (as he is in Purcell). Haynes has been a widely admired baroque oboist and scholar since the early 1970s; his performance here shows why. It's a pity that, rather than arias excerpted from cantatas or oratorios, they couldn't have chosen one of the full cantatas for solo alto. (Perhaps they'll do so on a future disc.) The "bleeding chunks" problem aside, this is an exquisite record. --Matthew Westphal

UPC: 722056215824

EAN: 0722056215824

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood