It sure doesn't sound like Johann Sebastian Bach -- this is lighthearted and laughing music of broad wit and human warmth -- and it sure doesn't sound like Ton Koopman -- this is goofy and giddy music-making with plenty of juice -- and yet it's both Bach and Koopman. Apparently even Bach had to lighten up sometimes -- how many cantatas with names like "My Heart Swims in Blood" and "I Stand with One Foot in the Grave" can anyone compose before they have to try something a bit more life affirming? And Koopman had to lighten ...
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It sure doesn't sound like Johann Sebastian Bach -- this is lighthearted and laughing music of broad wit and human warmth -- and it sure doesn't sound like Ton Koopman -- this is goofy and giddy music-making with plenty of juice -- and yet it's both Bach and Koopman. Apparently even Bach had to lighten up sometimes -- how many cantatas with names like "My Heart Swims in Blood" and "I Stand with One Foot in the Grave" can anyone compose before they have to try something a bit more life affirming? And Koopman had to lighten up, too: after spending so much time recording Bach's every extant sacred cantata, most on similarly cheerless subjects, how could Koopman not turn to Bach's secular cantatas with palpable relief? This coupling of the famous and hilarious "Coffee" and "Peasant" cantatas along with the doubtful but delightful Amore traditore Cantata brings together three of Bach's most cheerful works in a performance recorded in vividly immediate digital sound in 1995 and 1996. Played as always on...
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