Matthias Goerne
Bach: Cantatas BWV56, 82, 158 (CD)
The bass voice (basso, encompassing both baritone and bass in our modern terminology) occupies a special place in Bach’s sacred vocal music. As the two great Passion settings testify, it was the solo bass that represented the vox Christi or ‘voice of Christ’, following an established tradition in church music. Matthias Goerne is here at his most persuasive and beguiling in three of the Cantatas with superb orchestral and choral support and the recording includes two orchestral gems from the cantatas as well. Distinguished orchestral soloists include the oboist, Albrecht Mayer.
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Cantata BWV 82 ‘lch habe genug’
Cantata BWV 35 ‘Geist und Seele wird verwirret’: Sinfonia
Cantata BWV 158 ‘Der Friede sei mit dir’
Cantata BWV 35 ‘Geist und Seele wird verwirret’: Sinfonia
Cantata BWV 56 ‘lch will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen’
Matthias Goerne, baritone
Salzburger Bachchor
Camerata Academica Salzburg
Roger Norrington
