BaL 11.06.16 - JS Bach: Cantata BWV198 'Laß, Fürstin, laß noch einen Strahl'

[teamsaint]

- specifically the recordings of late Stravinsky works using the same sessions chamber choirs and the Gregg Smith singers! (Used in Craft's pioneering Webern recordings, too - and often sounding as if they'd just come from a soundtrack recording at the Disney studios.)

I see that the Bach was also once released as a coupling to Craft's recording of the Monteverdi "Vespers" - anyone ever heard this?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bach-Cantat.../dp/B000024QV0

the vespers? this looks like it?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

the vespers? this looks like it?

- you'd think I'd know by now to check youTube first! Good call, ts - I shall set time aside (I'll have to put petrol in the Tardis) to listen to this.

[teamsaint]

- you'd think I'd know by now to check youTube first! Good call, ts - I shall set time aside (I'll have to put petrol in the Tardis) to listen to this.

My pleasure,Ferney
Its the only place I could find it, although there are vinyl sets for sale at cheap prices on yankee amazon. ( temptedsmileything)

i'm just finding time for the Herreweghe from the HM Sacred Mvsic box.

CV Gent can come and sing round my house any time.

Be interested in your thoughts on the Craft, to save time travel.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Be interested in your thoughts on the Craft (Monteverdi Vespers), to save time travel.

Well - whilst I won't be getting rid of my Herreweghe - I enjoyed it very much. It was made in the same year (1967) as the more famous Michel Corbez recording, so the performers all rely on the score and Craft's insights into it; and sometimes it does seem as if they've only had a couple of rehearsals before the tape started, and there's a muddiness to the sound (on that youTube transfer at any - ahem - rate) with the trumpets well forward of the choir. But for all the very 20th Century singing and timbres, the pace is good and vigorous and I listened enchanted and entertained all the way through.

I see, too, that Jurgens also recorded the "Vespers" in 1975. I sha'n't be in any hurry to hear that - I found his recommended recording of the Bach this morning too much a depiction of what grief is supposed to be like, rather than the variety of conflicting feelings that Bach presents in this score. Glad I heard it - not for repeated listenings for me.

[Nick Armstrong]

Just noticed that JF-W reviewed the Suzuki performance in Gramophone as recently as the May issue. His two 'comparative' versions were the BAL 'winner' and the Pierlot, so the podium positions were pretty clear prior to transmission...

No wonder the prose of his radio survey were so neatly turned - he'd obviously had a double opportunity to hone his views; indeed, the 'galant accentuations' and other felicitous phrases appear in both reviews, unsurprisingly

[BBMmk2]

The Jurgen Jurgens version, doesn't seem to be all that readily available

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

The Jurgen Jurgens version, doesn't seem to be all that readily available

27 new copies available from the river people, Bbm:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bach-JS-Cantatas-Nos-Funeral/dp/B00BNWX01U

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

The Jurgen Jurgens version, doesn't seem to be all that readily available

Astute forumites may have noticed that the winning version wasn't on the original list.