Soprano Elizabeth Futral is featured on this CD of three solo cantatas by J.S. Bach, one very familiar, and two fairly obscure. Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen! is rightly one of the composer's most popular works, exuberant and uplifting. The meaning of Non sa che sia dolore, one of Bach's two Italian cantatas, is ambiguous with no scholarly consensus on exactly what its subject matter. It alludes to the departure of one of the composer's colleagues for a position in the landlocked city of Ansbach, but also cryptically seems ...
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Soprano Elizabeth Futral is featured on this CD of three solo cantatas by J.S. Bach, one very familiar, and two fairly obscure. Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen! is rightly one of the composer's most popular works, exuberant and uplifting. The meaning of Non sa che sia dolore, one of Bach's two Italian cantatas, is ambiguous with no scholarly consensus on exactly what its subject matter. It alludes to the departure of one of the composer's colleagues for a position in the landlocked city of Ansbach, but also cryptically seems to have a theme of seafaring. In any case, it's a lovely, valedictory farewell, gently melancholy except for its cheerful final aria. O holder Tag is a wedding cantata (not the Wedding Cantata, BWV 202), an eloquent expression of a bride's joy and her reflections on love. Futral has a warm, colorful voice that's at its best in the music's broadly lyrical passages, and in the recitatives, which she brings excitingly to life with supple expressiveness; in her performance, the...
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