Bach: Cantatas BWV49, 115, 180 Andreas Scholl

• 1 Chorale: Schmucke dich, o liebe Seele (Chorus) 06:20
• 2 Aria: Ermuntre dich: dein Heiland klopft (Tenor) 04:59
• 3 Recitative and Chorale: Wie teuer sind des heilgen Mahles Gaben (Soprano) 02:58
• 4 Recitative: Mein Herz fuhlt in sich Furcht und Freude (Alto) 01:21
• 5 Aria: Lebens Sonne, Licht der Sinnen (Soprano) 04:08
• 6 Recitative: Herr, lass an mir dein treues Lieben (Bass) 01:03
• 7 Chorale: Jesu, wahres Brot des Lebens (Chorus) 01:23
• 8 Sinfonia 06:47
• 9 Aria: Ich geh und suche mit Verlangen (Bass) 05:31
• 10 Recitative: Mein Mahl ist zubereit (Bass, Soprano) 01:49
• 11 Aria: Ich bin herrlich, ich bin schon (Soprano) 04:40
• 12 Recitative: Mein Glaube hat mich selbst so angezogen (Soprano, Bass) 01:30
• 13 Aria and Chorale: Dich hab ich je und je geliebet (Soprano, Bass) 04:43
• 14 Mache dich, mein Geist, bereit (Chorus) 04:07
• 15 Aria: Ach schlafrige Seele (Alto) 09:28
• 16 Recitative: Gott, so vor deine Seele wacht (Alto) 01:14
• 17 Aria: Bete aber auch dabei (Soprano) 06:48
• 18 Recitative: Er sehnet sich nach unserm Schreien (Tenor) 00:51
• 19 Chorale: Drum so lasst uns immerdar (Chorus) 01:01
• Total Runtime 01:10:41

Info for Bach: Cantatas BWV49, 115, 180

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.

Andreas Scholl, countertenor
Barbara Schlick, soprano
Christoph Prégardien, tenor
Gotthold Schwarz, bass
Christophe Coin, piccolo cello, conductor
Ensemble Baroque de Limoges
Concerto Vocale de Leipzig

Andreas Scholl has released a series of extraordinary solo recordings: the most recent being Wanderer - a disc of German Lied. Other notable releases include Bach cantatas with kammerorchesterbasel, O Solitude – an all-Purcell album with Accademia Bizantina which won the 2012 BBC Music Magazine award, Arias for Senesino - for which he won the 2006 Classical Brit Singer of the Year award, Heroes - a disc of arias by Handel, Mozart, Hasse and Gluck, Robert Dowland's A Musicall Banquet, Vivaldi Motets with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Wayfaring Stranger - a selection of specially arranged English and American folksongs with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and Arcadia - a collection of rare and unpublished cantatas by composers from Rome’s Arcadian Circle - all of which are released on Decca. His discography also includes recordings for Deutsche Grammophon - Handel’s Solomon and Saul with Paul McCreesh and for Harmonia Mundi including the Gramophone Award-winning Vivaldi Stabat Mater; Caldara's Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo; Il duello amoroso, a selection of Handel’s Italian cantatas with Accademia Bizantina; Crystal Tears - lute and consort songs by John Dowland and Songs of Myself - the songs of Oswald von Wolkenstein. His DVD releases include productions of Giulio Cesare (for both Decca and Harmonia Mundi), Rodelinda (Warner) and Partenope (Decca).

This season Andreas Scholl embarks on a major recital tour of Europe and North America including Berlin’s Konzerthaus, London’s Wigmore Hall and the Lincoln Center New York (promoting his Wanderer CD). He also sings the St Matthew Passion at King’s College, Cambridge (under Stephen Cleobury) and Bach Cantatas at Vienna’s Musikverein with Concentus Musicus (under Nikolaus Harnoncourt).

Andreas Scholl performs in the world's leading concert venues and festivals. Operatic roles include the title role in Giulio Cesare at Royal Danish Opera, Opéra de Lausanne, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and the 2012 Salzburg Festival (opposite Cecilia Bartoli), Bertarido (Rodelinda) at Glyndebourne Festival Opera and the Metropolitan Opera (opposite Renée Fleming) and Arsace (Partenope) at Royal Danish Opera. His concert performances have included appearances with Berliner Philharmoniker, New York Philharmonic, The Cleveland Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Dresdner Philharmonie, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Freiburger Barockorchester, Münchner Philharmoniker, the English Concert and at the 2005 Last Night of the Proms - the first counter-tenor ever to have been invited.

Born in Germany, Andreas Scholl's early musical training was with the Kiedricher Chorbuben. He later studied under Richard Levitt and René Jacobs at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. He is a winner of the 1999 ECHO Awards, Prix de l'Union de la Presse Musicale Belge and the Middle Ages/Renaissance category of the 2002 Edison Awards for his recording of A Musicall Banquet. He won a second ECHO Award in 2005 for his composition for Deutsche Grammophon's audio-book of Hans Christian Andersen's The Emperor's New Clothes and The Nightingale. (Source: Harrison Parrott)

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