Nothing quite says "Bach" like the image of a woman lying face-up on some pavement, wearing a strapless black dress. Or so Natalie Dessay would have us believe. She also dedicates her new album of Bach cantatas to Martin Luther King. Welcome to the woolly world of Natalie Dessay singing Bach, accompanied by the fearless period-instrument group Le Concert d'Astrée under Emmanuelle Haïm. It's a bit easier to imagine Dessay in Handel than in Bach, partly because she sings German with an accent that those with the sound of the ...
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Nothing quite says "Bach" like the image of a woman lying face-up on some pavement, wearing a strapless black dress. Or so Natalie Dessay would have us believe. She also dedicates her new album of Bach cantatas to Martin Luther King. Welcome to the woolly world of Natalie Dessay singing Bach, accompanied by the fearless period-instrument group Le Concert d'Astrée under Emmanuelle Haïm. It's a bit easier to imagine Dessay in Handel than in Bach, partly because she sings German with an accent that those with the sound of the language in their heads will find difficult to forget. But most of all because her extremely strong personality pulls at the boundaries of self-effacement demanded by Bach's flawless melodies and intricate musical constructions. It's to her credit that her performances of these three familiar cantatas for soprano and instrumental ensemble ("Ich habe genug" is performed in its soprano version, BWV 82a) are consistently listenable, and at times brilliant. The sterling example of the...
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