Mahan Esfahani, Carolyn Sampson
Release Date: 05 May 2023
Label: Hyperion Records Ltd
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 034571283876
Genres: Classical Early Music
Description
Domestic music-making of a distinctly superior sort is lovingly recreated in a rare recording of the notebooks Bach presented to his second wife.
The famous music book was gifted by Johann Sebastian Bach to his wife, who noted down pieces composed by Bach and others. Award-winning harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani and renowned soprano Carolyn Sampson perform these works.
"What an unfailingly delightful compilation it is, featuring keyboard galanteries, chorale melodies with or without voice and a wide variety of arias […] few if any will be disappointed with an enchanting programme, affectionately and intimately performed." - BBC Music Magazine (Performance 4 STARS; Recording 4 STARS)
"Mahan Esfahani and Carolyn Sampson are the perfect exponents of this repertoire with every item given a scrupulously faithful performance that never patronises any of the pieces, but treats each of them as though it were a miniature masterpiece, as indeed many of them are. […] This is a recording to which listeners will wish to return repeatedly." – MusicWeb International
Tracklisting
Mishka Rushdie Momen
The Gesualdo Six / Owain Park
Takacs Quartet
Simon Callaghan, Sinfonieorchester St Gallen
Cinquecento
Andrey Gugnin
El Leon de Oro / Peter Phillips
Piers Lane
Krzysztof Firlus
Ensemble Del Passato
Carine Tinney; Ziv Braha; ensemble feuervogel
Susanne Heinrich
Frank Agsteribbe, Erik van Nevel, Paul van Nevel, Vojtech Semerad, cantoLX, Cappella Mariana, Netherlands Chamber Choir, Zefiro Torna, Bart Coen, Michal Gondko, Corina Marti...
Emma Kirkby (soprano), Paolo Pandolfo, Labyrinto
Floris De Rycker; Ratas del vejo mundo
Rademann/Dresdner Kammerchor/Perl/Sirius Viols/+
