JULY 29 wp - Harmonia Mundi UK Distribution

Label: NAÏVE
File Under: Classical/Choral
Catalogue No: NC40031
Barcode: 822186400319
MID Price
Format: 1 CD
Packaging: digipack
Andreas Scholl [countertenor]
Barbara Schlick [soprano]
Christoph Prégardien [tenor]
Gotthold Schwarz [bass]
Ensemble Baroque de Limoges /
Christophe Coin
J.S.BACH: Cantatas BWV49, 115, 180
Andreas Scholl
Barbara Schlick
Christoph Prégardien
Ensemble Baroque de Limoges
Christophe Coin
RELEASE DATE
29TH JULY 2013
Unusually these three church cantatas are accompanied by a cello, which was uncommon, especially in church: in this case
the five-string piccolo, fashionable at the start of the 18th century. The key to the originality and coherence of this recording
by the Ensemble Baroque de Limoges, with Concerto Vocale Leipzig, is to have approached these works from the
instrumental angle.
Conductor Christophe Coin, who studied with Jordi Savall and Nikolaus Harnoncourt, has, for the last 30 years, been
France’s most fervent apostle of the music of the 17th and 18th centuries. It all came together in 1993: his first love of
baroque music, his quest for authenticity in the interpretation of known and lesser known repertories, his approach to
voices and period instruments, his work as a cellist himself, never sacrificed to a career as conductor…
The record won a Diapason d’or, ƒƒƒƒ from Télérama and a Timbre de platine from Opéra International.