Genug

Ahle, Johann Rudolf;
Bach, Johann Sebastian;
Gruchmann, Jakob;
Mahler, Alma;
Schelle, Johann

Ensemble BachWerkVokal;
Safari, Gordon

MDG 923 2259-6

"It is enough" - three words that evoke endless associations in music lovers and Bible scholars alike. With this third recording, Gordon Safari and his ensemble BachWerkVokal have once again built a programme around these words that is rich in associations and always surprising. Throughout the centuries, it most touchingly illustrates the change in the view of the end of earthly life.

As always, BachWerkVokal has an absolutely topclass cast. The extremely agile vocal ensemble, with only a few singers, is contrasted by an equally flexible instrumental grouping with various wind and percussion instruments. Gordon Safari shapes all this with stylistic confidence and a fine sense for the intensity of the music. It is surprising that the ensemble knows how to handle historical instruments as well as the modern sound language. Especially: the inclusion of the entire church hall for the recording of Gruchmann's cantata is a special feast for lovers of three-dimensional reproduction with a spatial sound that begins to glow on Super Audio CD.

SACD

Muzyka klasyczna

MDG

02-11-2022

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