Nathalie Stutzmann – Bach: Une cantate imaginaire (2012)
Nathalie Stutzmann – Bach: Une cantate imaginaire (2012)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 79:47 | 475 MB
Genre: Classical, Vocal | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | Catalog: 481 0062
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 79:47 | 475 MB
Genre: Classical, Vocal | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | Catalog: 481 0062
Nathalie Stutzmann’s credentials as a Bach singer are well established, as genuine and unmistakable a contralto voice as we’ve heard in his music on record. Now she presents a programme of hand-picked movements (mainly) from the cantata depository as singer-director – a combination of tasks by which, on this evidence, she appears distinctly unfazed.
Despite elegance shorn from the Sinfonia of BWV42 (an inauspicious start to have this gently sanguine concerto join the rat race of the fashionably fast) and the Brandenburg No 1 refurbishment in BWV174, Stutzmann has an ear for captivating attention and her orchestra, Orfeo 55, are often as responsive to her ‘stick’ as they are to her dark-hued vocalisation. Not all of this reaps its rewards. While ‘Air on the G string’ is proud and poised, ‘Bist du bei mir’ swoons and arches at times like a send-up, stylistically very wide of the mark for an otherwise period-aware enterprise.
Immediacy of sentiment and fresh anticipation of the core ‘conceit’ of each one of these disparate movements is Stutzmann’s strongest suit. Some will relish her sparkling take on ‘Nichts kann mich erretten’ – it is quite a dazzling vocal display – and other highlights include a Gleichwie der Regen (BWV18) and a stately Sinfonia of BWV4, redolent of Nadia Boulanger – though the link to ‘Stirb in mir’ (BWV169) is peculiar to say the least, juxtaposing two remote Bachian sound worlds.
Bach’s oeuvre has been trawled with some care but, inevitably, the de-contextualisation of movements from so many complete liturgical and rhetorical musical ‘essays’ compromises their impact – as does the pragmatic inclusion of famous ‘potboilers’ for their own sake: the Gloria from the Mass in B minor and ‘Jesu Joy’ seem curiously out of place.
The main question is whether Stutzmann’s rich voice constitutes the perfect vehicle for a quasi-compilation; the instrument is, in any case, something of an acquired taste but surely would be less so without the straight-tone bulging (often just under the note) which so regularly dominates the landscape. This is, overall, rather too much of a good thing – but still admire the sparkle and committed intent.
Nathalie Stutzmann – Bach: Une cantate imaginaire (2012)
Track List:
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
[1] 'Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats', BWV 42 - Sinfonia
[2] 'Freue dich, erlöste Schar!', BWV 30 - 'Kommt, ihr angefocht'nen Sünder'
[3] 'Ich freue mich in dir', BWV 133 - 'Getrost!'
[4] Suite No.3 in D major, BWV 1068 - Aria
[5] Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel: 'Bist du bei mir', BWV 508 (attr. J.S.Bach)
[6] 'Ich liebe den Höchsten von ganzem Gemüte', BWV 174 - Sinfonia
[7] 'Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis', BWV 21 - Sinfonia
[8] 'Wer mich liebet, der wird mein Wort halten', BWV 74 - 'Nichts kann mich erretten'
[9] 'Allein zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ', BWV 33 - 'Wie furchtsam wankten meine Schritte
[10] 'Gleichwie der Regen und Schnee vom Himmel fällt', BWV 18 - Sinfonia
[11] St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244 - Part 2, No.39 'Erbarme dich'
[12] 'Christ lag in Todes Banden', BWV 4 - Sinfonia
[13] 'Gott soll allein mein Herze haben', BWV 169 - 'Stirb in mir'
[14] 'Gloria in excelsis Deo', BWV 191 - 'Gloria in excelsis Deo'
[15] 'Ich bin ein guter Hirt', BWV 85 - 'Jesus ist ein guter Hirt'
[16] 'Himmelskönig, sei willkommen', BWV 182 - Sinfonia
[17] 'Vergiss mein nicht, mein allerliebster Gott', BWV 505
[18] 'Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben', BWV 147 - 'Jesus bleibet meine Freude'
Performers:
Nathalie Stutzmann, contralto & direction
Orfeo 55
Mikaeli Kammarkör (14,18)
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