Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Elizabeth Watts
Orchestra: The English Concert
Conductor: Harry Bicket
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Catalogue: HMU807550
Release: 2011
Size: 1.04 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Der Himmel lacht, BWV 31
01. VIII. Aria, “Letzte Stunde, brich herein”
Selig ist der Mann, BWV 57
02. III. Aria “Ich wünschte mir den Tod”
Cantata BWV199 ‘Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut’
03. I. Recitativo “Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut”
04. II. Aria e Recitativo “Stumme Seufzer, stille Klagen”
05. III. Recitativo “Doch Gott muss mir genädig sein”
06. IV. Aria “Tief gebückt und voller Reue”
07. V. Recitativo “Auf diese Schmerzens-Reu”
08. VI. Choral “Ich, Dein betrübtes Kind”
09. VII. Recitativo “Ich lege mich in diese Wunden”
10. VIII. Aria “Wie freudig ist mein Herz”
Herr, gehe nicht ins Gericht, BWV 105
11. III. Aria, “Wie zittern und wanken”
Ich bin vergnügt mit meinem Glücke, BWV 84
12. I. Aria “Ich bin vergnügt mit meinem Glücke”
Cantata BWV51 ‘Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen’
13. I. Aria, “Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen!”
14. II. Recitativo “Wir beten zu dem Tempel an”
15. III. Aria “Höchster, mache deine Güte”
16. IV. Choral “Sei Lob und Preis mit Ehren”
17. V. Aria “Alleluja!”
Winner of the 2006 Kathleen Ferrier Award and the 2007 Cardiff Song Prize, soprano Elizabeth Watts, makes her harmonia mundi début in a luminous programme of Bach cantatas and arias, deftly supported by The English Concert, led by Harry Bicket.
With a voice described by International Record Review as “one of the most beautiful Britain has produced in a generation”, Elizabeth Watts is now securely established as “one of the brightest new talents” (The Independent). After training as a chorister at Norwich Cathedral, Elizabeth went on to study archaeology at Sheffield University before attending the Royal College of Music in London. Her many prizes include the 2006 Kathleen Ferrier Prize (UK), the 2007 Outstanding Young Artist Award at the Cannes MIDEM Classique Awards and the Rosenblatt Recital Song Prize at the 2007 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition. A former ‘BBC New Generation Artist’, she was invited to become an Artist in Residence at London’s Southbank Centre in 2010. Now equally in demand as a recitalist, opera singer, and concert artist, she has already appeared at many of the world’s leading musical centres and festivals, including the Royal Opera House, London, Wigmore Hall, Welsh National Opera, the BBC Proms, Santa Fe Opera, Boston’s Handel and Haydn Society, and has upcoming engagements throughout Europe from Amsterdam to Zurich.
Internationally renowned conductor Harry Bicket is especially noted for his interpretation of Baroque and Classical repertoire. In 2007 he became Artistic Director of The English Concert, which he has led on tours in the UK, USA, Europe and the Middle East.
He has won high praise world wide for his work in opera, including at The Royal Opera Covent Garden, Glyndebourne Festival, Opera North, Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, and Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona. He made his debut at The Metropolitan Opera in 2004 in a new production of Rodelinda with Renée Fleming and David Daniels, and returned to conduct Giulio Cesare in 2006 and La clemenza di Tito in 2008.
Future projects with The English Concert include a recording featuring Lucy Crowe for harmonia mundi.