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Schütz - Weinachtshistorie & Auferstehunghistorie
Jakob Bloch Jespersen (bass), Johan Linderoth (tenor), Adam Riis (tenor) & Else Torp (soprano)
Ars Nova Copenhagen, Concerto Copenhagen & Sirius Viols, Paul Hillier
Awards:
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Finalist - Baroque Vocal
The performance is first-rate throughout. Natural, tractable voices create characterful images - in the Christmas Story, Else Torp an ethereal angel, Jakob Bloch Jespersen a sneering Herod....
Schütz - Weinachtshistorie & Auferstehunghistorie
Jakob Bloch Jespersen (bass), Johan Linderoth (tenor), Adam Riis (tenor) & Else Torp (soprano)
Ars Nova Copenhagen, Concerto Copenhagen & Sirius Viols, Paul Hillier
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Awards:
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Finalist - Baroque Vocal
The performance is first-rate throughout. Natural, tractable voices create characterful images - in the Christmas Story, Else Torp an ethereal angel, Jakob Bloch Jespersen a sneering Herod....
About
The second volume of ARS NOVA Copenhagen & chief conductor Paul Hillier’s series showcasing the passions and oratorios of Heinrich Schütz features the Christmas Story and the Resurrection History, two masterly examples of the early vocal Baroque before the time of Bach, who admired Schütz.
ARS NOVA and a team of talented Danish soloists are accompanied by players of the acclaimed ensemble Concerto Copenhagen and the viola da gamba ensemble Sirius Viols, founded by and featuring Hille Perl, one of the world’s leading viola da gamba players.
Contents and tracklist
- Else Torp (soprano), Jakob Bloch Jespersen (bass), Linnea Lomholt (alto), Adam Riis (tenor), Rikke Lender (alto), Tomas Medici (tenor), Kasper Eliassen (tenor), Josef Hamber (tenor), Asger Lynge Petersen (bass), Henrik Lund Petersen (bass), Thomas Kiorbye (bass)
- Ars Nova Copenhagen, Concerto Copenhagen
- Paul Hillier
- Recorded: 1-2 December 2008
- Recording Venue: Garnisons Kirke, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Else Torp (soprano), Johan Linderoth (tenor), Christopher Watson (tenor), Linnea Lomholt (alto), Tomas Medici (tenor), Kasper Eliassen (tenor), Josef Hamber (tenor), Asger Lynge Petersen (bass), Henrik Lund Petersen (bass), Louise Skobaech Korsholm (soprano), Hilde Ramnefjell Dolva (soprano), Tobias Nilsson (alto)
- Ars Nova Copenhagen, Concerto Copenhagen, Sirius Viols
- Paul Hillier
- Recorded: 29-30 March 2008
- Recording Venue: Garnisons Kirke, Copenhagen, Denmark
Awards and reviews
February 2010
The performance is first-rate throughout. Natural, tractable voices create characterful images - in the Christmas Story, Else Torp an ethereal angel, Jakob Bloch Jespersen a sneering Herod. The major roles of Evangelist are well narrated, in both Historien, with a natural speech rhythm paced to match the changing moods. A disc to cherish.
June 2010
Ars Nova Copenhagen reaffirms its status as an outstanding vocal ensemble with luminous and pure choral singing. Its members also provide excellent solos...Hillier paces and shapes Schütz's music to perfection...Schütz recordings of such ardent beauty are much too rare, so this is not to be missed.
2011 edition
The splendid Ars Nova Copenhagen, directed by the sensitive Paul Hillier, provide here totally compelling recordings of Schutz's inspired settings of the Christmas Oratorio and the History of the Resurrection...the solo singing is very fine, especially the radiant-voiced soprano, Else Torp.
