How wonderful it must be to be Ton Koopman. Not only is he capable of playing every Baroque keyboard instrument at a virtuoso level, but he is recording the complete Cantatas of Bach with his own handpicked singers and instrumentalists with Koopman himself providing the keyboard continuo. In other words, Koopman gets to know one of the greatest series of sacred music ever composed by the last great composer of sacred music who was also one of the greatest composers of all time. How wonderful it must be to have all that in ...
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How wonderful it must be to be Ton Koopman. Not only is he capable of playing every Baroque keyboard instrument at a virtuoso level, but he is recording the complete Cantatas of Bach with his own handpicked singers and instrumentalists with Koopman himself providing the keyboard continuo. In other words, Koopman gets to know one of the greatest series of sacred music ever composed by the last great composer of sacred music who was also one of the greatest composers of all time. How wonderful it must be to have all that in your head.In the sixteenth volume of his recordings of the complete Cantatas of Bach, Koopman once again seems to be able to express the whole range of Bach's sacred music from spiritual exaltation to religious terror, from giddiest joy to deepest sorrow, from festive celebration to personal mortification. For the most part, though, Koopman once again stresses the clarity and humanity of Bach's sacred music. With a small choir and a small orchestra recorded in an intimate acoustic,...
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