Czech mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kozená has earned wide praise among critics for her performances of J.S. Bach and Handel in addition to the recordings she has made of music of a somewhat later vintage. Conventional wisdom would dictate that Archiv Produktion's Lamento, which reunites Kozená with J.S. Bach in two cantatas and presents her in other works by Johann Christoph Bach, Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, and Francesco Bartolomeo Conti, should be as delightful as her previous outings. ...
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Czech mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kozená has earned wide praise among critics for her performances of J.S. Bach and Handel in addition to the recordings she has made of music of a somewhat later vintage. Conventional wisdom would dictate that Archiv Produktion's Lamento, which reunites Kozená with J.S. Bach in two cantatas and presents her in other works by Johann Christoph Bach, Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, and Francesco Bartolomeo Conti, should be as delightful as her previous outings. Additionally, Kozená is partnered in this highly desirable vocal literature by the extraordinary Reinhard Goebel and his Musica Antiqua Köln, and under any normal circumstances this should provide the icing on the cake. That it does not deliver on either score is quite surprising, but Lamento is a very laid-back endeavor all around. A little too laid-back, unfortunately, as Lamento is a rather lackluster effort and dangles dangerously close to mediocrity.In Lamento, Kozená under sings,...
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