Sooner or later, if you're a German baritone with aspirations of grandeur, you've got to take a shot at Bach's two great baritone cantatas, the gloomy Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen (BWV 56) and the doomy Ich habe genug (BWV 82). Thus it was inevitable that Thomas Quasthoff, arguably the best German baritone of the past ten years, would have to take on Ich will and Ich habe. But given that the gloom and doom weltanschauung of Bach's Lutheran Germany is all but ignored in these cheerfully fundamentalist times, how ...
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Sooner or later, if you're a German baritone with aspirations of grandeur, you've got to take a shot at Bach's two great baritone cantatas, the gloomy Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen (BWV 56) and the doomy Ich habe genug (BWV 82). Thus it was inevitable that Thomas Quasthoff, arguably the best German baritone of the past ten years, would have to take on Ich will and Ich habe. But given that the gloom and doom weltanschauung of Bach's Lutheran Germany is all but ignored in these cheerfully fundamentalist times, how does Quasthoff, the former thalidomide baby with a voice of burnished bronze, do at projecting dismal despair?Thankfully, not all that well. Not only does Quasthoff perform with his by now customary strength and elegance, but Quasthoff interprets with his by now customary warmth and compassion. Quasthoff knows full well the depths of doom and gloom in Bach's texts, but he also knows that despite it all, life is good and his singing projects a love of life that few other performers...
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