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...Bach: Two Cantatas--This is the third and apparently last of the Bach cantatas Seraphim will bring out using the combined forces of Elly Ameling, Janet Baker, Theo Altmeyer, and Hans Sotin with the South German Bach expert Wolfgang Gonnenwein conducting. One grieves, for Cantatas 126 and 149 recorded here only prove this the best ensemble in the business today...
Haydn: The Seasons (Soprano Ileana Cotrubas, Tenor Werner Krenn, Bass Hans Sotin, Brighton Festival Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Antal Dorati conductor, London; 3 LPs). This is Haydn's other major oratorio, structurally less cohesive and dramatically less powerful than The Creation, but a work in which the aging composer set out to demonstrate all that he could do in a wide range of styles and forms. In other words, a compendium of glories. The text, from James Thomson's panoramic poem written in 1730, inspires passages of musical landscape painting, evocations of the hunt, human scenes of yeomen...
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