Magdalena Kozena : Lamento : Musica Antiqua Koln & Reinhard Goebel - 2005.

Magdalena Kozena : Lamento : Musica Antiqua Koln & Reinhard Goebel - 2005.
Magadalena Kozena : Mezzo Soprano
Musica Antiqua Koln (On Authentic Instruments)
Transverse Flute : Verena Fischer, Dorothea Seel
Oboe/ Hautbois : Susanne Regel, Diego Nadra
Basson/ Fagott : Rainer Johannsen
Violin I : Stephan Schardt(12), Reinhard Goebel(1,12), Ilja Korol,
Anne von Hoff
Violin II : Gudrun Hobold, Franc Polman, Karin Gutsche
Viola/Alto : Maren Ries, Rachael Yates, Stephan Schardt (1)
Violoncello : Klaus-Dieter Brandt, Georg Borgers
Violone : Ulrich Wolf
Harpsichord/Cembalo/Clanecin - Organ : Leon Berben
Reinhard Goebel : Direction
Recording : Cologne, Melanchthon-Kirche, 2/2003.


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Recovery : 3%.
Total rar size : CD / Covers / Full Booklet : 296 MB /4 parts.
Total playing-time : 55',51" .
Included : Full Covers, Full Booklet, CD in 300 dpi.


Reviews :
BBC music magazine : Disc of The Month : March 2005. (Click on image to enlarge)
Gramophone Music Magazine : 6/2005, David Vickers
A star mezzo brings a different slant as Goebel urges on sublime Bach
This was was originally intended to be Volume 3 of Reinhard Goebel's "Bachiana" series, but Kozena's central role in it must have been too good an opportunity for DG's marketing department to miss. The title derives from JC Bach's Ach, das ich Wassers g'nug hatte (which Goebel recorded before, with countertenor David Cordier, Archiv, 2/87). Kozenα brings womanly tenderness rather than the ethereal spirituality that distinguishes several gorgeous countertenor recordings (Gιrard Lesne, Daniel Taylor and Andreas Scholl, among others). Compared to the sublime understatement evident in 1986, it's a pity that Goebel now prefers to provide a spiky violin line that shows remarkably scant sympathy.
There's a sense of Goebel being unpredictable for its own sake, and nowhere is this more destructive and charmless than in JS Bach's Vergnugte Ruh. His iconoclastic interpretation of the sublime first movement is an uncomfortable miscalculation, while the profound concept of "contented rest" is rejected in favour of a frenzied turn at the Munich beer festival. Goebel shows a poor understanding for the text and it is strange to hear such hypertension misapplied to one of Bach's gentlest and most tender creations. It is not an experience I will care to repeat often.
Kozenα is better served by Conti's Languet anima mea. Conti was an esteemed opera composer and theorbo player at the imperial court in Vienna, and JS Bach admired this operatic motet enough to copy and perform it himself. Kozenα's declamatory performance is thrilling, and Goebel's punchy style works better here, although I prefer the more elegant and natural performance recorded by Sibylla Rubens and Thomas Hengelbrock in 2002. Kozenα and Goebel rarely relax and allow the music to breathe.
Ironically, the qualities of emotive effect and graceful accompaniment lacking in so much of this programme are sufficient in attractive pieces by CPE and JCF Bach that are lively, lyrical, and full of fascinating gallant leanings. They do not compensate for the harshness elsewhere, but at least they offer something rewarding from a disc that should have offered much more.


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Tracklist :
Magdalena Kozena : Lamento : Musica Antiqua Koln & Reinhard Goebel - 2005.
01. J.C. Bach : Ach, Dass Ich Wassers G'nug Hatte [0:07:30.00]
Lamento for Contralto, Violin, 3 Violas and Basso continuo
Scoring : Violin Viola I-III, Violoncello, Violone, Organ
02. F. B. Conti : Languet Anima Mea : I. Recitativo. Languet Anima Mea Amore Tuo [0:00:53.64]
Cantata for Soprano, 2 Oboes (ad libitum), Strings and Basso continuo
Scring : Oboe (2), Violin I (4), Violin II (3), Viola (2), Violoncello (2), Violone, Organ
03. II. Aria. O Vulnera, Vita Coelestis [0:03:19.70]
04. III. Recitativo. Amoris Tui Jaculo [0:00:38.62]
05. IV. Aria. Tu Lumen Mentis Es [0:07:03.22]
06. V. Alleluja [0:01:36.80]
07. J.S. Bach : Vergnugte Ruh, Beliebte Seelenlust BWV 170 : I. Aria. Vergnugte Ruh, Beliebte Seelenlust [0:04:23.97]
Cantata for Contralto, Oboe d'Amore, Strings, Organ, and Basso Continuo
Text : Georg Christian Lehms
Scoring : Flute, Oboe, Violin I (4), Violin II (3), Viola (2), Violoncello (2), Violone, Basson, Organ
08. II. Recitative. Die Welt, Das Sundenhaus [0:01:21.10]
09. III. Aria. Wie Jammern Mich Doch Die Verkehrten Herzen [0:06:08.50]
10. IV. Recitative. Wer Sollte Sich Demnach [0:01:05.52]
11. V. Aria. Mir Ekelt Mehr Zu Leben [0:04:57.89]
12. J.S. Bach : Bekennen Will Ich Seinen Namen BWV 200 [0:03:30.00]
Aria for Contralto, 2 Violins and Basso continuo
Scoring : Violin (2), Violoncello, Violone, Organ
13. C. P. E. Bach : Selma H 739 (Wq. 236) [0:02:10.00]
Cantata for Soprano, 2 Flutes, Strings and Basso continuo
Text : Johann Heinrich Voss
Scoring : Flute I/II, Violin I (4), Violin II (3), Viola (2), Violoncello (2), Violone, Harpsicord
14. J. C. F. Bach : Die Amerikanerin BR JCFB G 47 : I. Saide, Komm, Mein Wunsch, Mein Lied! [0:02:46.05]
Scena for Mezzo-Soprano, Strings, and Basso continuo
Text : Heinrich Wilhelm von Gestenberg
Scoring : Violin I (4), Violin II (3), Viola (2), Violoncello (2),
Violone, Basson, Hapsichord
15. II. Schon Ist Mein Madchen, Wie Die Traube [0:02:34.34]
16. III. Du Quell, Der Sich Durch Goldsand Schlangelt [0:01:43.24]
17. IV. Mein Herz, Mein Herz Fleucht Ihr Entgegen [0:04:08.36]


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