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| LABEL: |
AURE
RIDENTI
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| CATALOG
NUMBER: |
AR980222
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| EAN
NUMBER: |
UNKNOWN
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| NUMBER OF DISCS: |
2
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| RUNNING TIME: |
2:22:12
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| YEAR
RECORDED: |
1998
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| CD
RELEASE DATE: |
1998
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| CONDUCTOR: |
WILFRIED
SCHNETZLER
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| ORCHESTRA: |
ENSEMBLE
AD FONTES
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| CHOIR: |
BACH-KANTOREI
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| SOPRANO: |
RUTH
AMSLER
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| ALTO: |
ELIZABETH
MCQUEEN
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| TENOR: |
HERMANN
OSWALD
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| BASS: |
WOLF
MATTHIAS FRIEDRICH
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DISC ONE
1. Symphony
2. Comfort Ye, My People
3. Every Valley Shall Be Exalted
4. And The Glory of the Lord
5. Thus Saith The Lord
6. But Who May Abide?
7. And He Shall Purify
8. Behold A Virgin Shall Conceive / O
Thou, That Tellest Good Tidings To Zion
9. For Behold, Darkness Shall Cover The
Earth
10. The People That Walked In Darkness
11. For Unto Us A Child Is Born
12. Pifa / There Were Shepherds
13. And Lo, The Angel of the Lord / And
The Angel Said Unto Them
14. And Suddenly There Was With The Angel
15. Glory To God
16. Rejoice Greatly / Then Shall The Eyes
of the Blind
17. He Shall Feed His Flock Like A
Shepherd
18. His Yoke Is Easy
19. Behold The Lamb Of God
20. He Was Despised
21. Surely He Hath Borne Our Griefs
22. And With His Stripes
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DISC TWO
23. All We Like Sheep
24. All They That See Him
25. He Trusted In God
26. Thy Rebuke Hath Broken His Heart
27. Behold and see if there be any sorrow
28. He was cut off out of the land of the
living
29. But Thou didst not leave His soul in
hell
30. Who is this King of Glory?
31. Unto which of the angels? / Let all
the angels of God
32. Thou art gone up on high
33. The Lord gave the word
34a. How beautiful are the feet
35a. Their sound is gone out
36. Why do the nations rage?
37. Let us break their bonds asunder
38. Thou shalt break them
39. Hallelujah
40. I know that my Redeemer liveth
41. Since by man came death
42. Behold, I tell you a mystery
43. The trumpet shall sound
44. Then shall be brought to pass / O
Death, where is thy sting?
45. But thanks be to God
46. If God be for us
47. Worthy is the Lamb / Amen
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SITE RATING: 7/10
SITE
REVIEW: A worthy live
recording, made by the Swiss ensemble
Bach-Kantorei under the direction of Wilfried
Schnetzler, and released on their own
label, I found this performance
well-prepared and presented, and lacking only
the joyous sparkle and perfect polish which
would rate it higher. Recorded in the
Church Linsebühl, St. Gallen, the sound is quite
marvelous - close and well-defined, with plenty
of natural acoustic giving the recording much
warmth. Amongst the soloists, I found
tenor Hermann Osward the clear favorite - his
warm, heroic tone and delivery full of passion
and sparkle. Next, alto Elizabeth McQueen
is darkly dramatic and quite splendid, even
fiery in her arias. Compared to them,
soprano Ruth Amsler and bass Wolf Matthias
Friedrich sound a bit forced and unfocused, not
helped by the live setting, but are still quite
good. The Ensemble ad fontes play on
modern instruments, and are excellent, while the
Bach-Kantorei are perhaps the weakest link, with
rote singing and occasional pitch and unity
issues - again, not helped by being captured in
a live concert setting, which does not allow for
error. Wilfried Schnetzler's tempos are
moderate; he doesn't aim for fireworks, even
when they would liven things up a great
deal. All in all, a pleasant, high-quality
performance, captured in good sound, but not a
first pick for collections.
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