Beloved & Beautiful: Meine Freundin, du bist schön (Girlfriend, you are beautiful) sounds like a title for an album of pop songs, but it's something different and original: a collection of German Baroque cantatas setting passages from the Song of Songs (or, in the case of J.S. Bach's Cantata No. 196, a related text). Dutch conductor Jos van Veldhoven and his Netherlands Bach Society have released a strong series of rather intimate Baroque sacred music recordings, and this may be the best yet. What makes the program so ...
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Beloved & Beautiful: Meine Freundin, du bist schön (Girlfriend, you are beautiful) sounds like a title for an album of pop songs, but it's something different and original: a collection of German Baroque cantatas setting passages from the Song of Songs (or, in the case of J.S. Bach's Cantata No. 196, a related text). Dutch conductor Jos van Veldhoven and his Netherlands Bach Society have released a strong series of rather intimate Baroque sacred music recordings, and this may be the best yet. What makes the program so compelling is that the Song of Songs texts, romantic and even sexual in nature, force the composers into intense, often dialogic structures in the absence of the influence of the Italian operatic style that influenced the mature J.S. Bach; the Bach cantata heard here dates from 1709, and the rest of the music is earlier than that, with that work preceded by composers who taught or influenced J.S. Bach. Think of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas for an idea of how this music generates passion in...
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Good. Includes disc(s), case, booklet, and back artwork. Case, booklet, and artwork will show moderate cosmetic wear. Disc(s) are professionally cleaned and may contain only light scratches that do not effect functionality.
