US TARIFFS UPDATE | August 2025 | No impact expected on your Presto orders | Read full details
-
Bach & Handel - Solo Cantatas & Arias
RecommendedJanet Baker
Academy of St Martin in the Fields and English Chamber Orchestra, Neville Marriner and Raymond Leppard
Awards:
-
Grammy Awards, 20th Awards (1977), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
Purchase product
Downloads
Audio formats guide -
-
Bach - Cantatas
Agnes Giebel, Sheila Armstrong, Rotraus Hansmann (sopranos), Julia Falk, Helen Watts (altos), Bert van t’Hoff, Kurt Equiluz (tenors) & Jacques Villisech, Max van Egmond (basses)
Monteverdi Choir Hamburg, Jürgen Jürgens
Patches of engaging music-making here, though giving more insight into 1960s Hamburg than 1720s Leipzig. Choruses are often woolly, soloists vary from off-the-voice big voices to insecure,... — More…
Purchase product
Downloads
Audio formats guide -
Bach: Christus, der ist mein Leben - Sacred Cantatas
Dorothee Mields (soprano), Hans Jörg Mammel (tenor), Matthew White, Thomas Bauer
Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe
Purchase product
Downloads
Audio formats guide -
Bach - Sacred Cantatas
Dorothee Mields (soprano), Matthew White (alto), Hans-Jörg Mammel (tenor) & Thomas Bauer (bass)
Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe
Cantata BWV 84 for solo soprano falls to Dorothee Mields, an affecting Bach singer whose linear clarity and fresh, somewhat boyish vocal timbre enhances the music at every turn. Her contribution... — More…
Purchase product
Downloads
Audio formats guide -
Bach - Early Cantatas Volume 2
Weimer Cantatas I
Emma Kirkby (soprano), Michael Chance (countertenor), Charles Daniels (tenor) & Peter Harvey (bass)
The Purcell Quartet
The Purcell Quartet - two violins, cello and continuo, augmented by two violas, recorders, oboe, bassoon, and trumpet - reflect the meagre forces available to Bach. The four solo singers combine... — More…
-
JS Bach: Sacred Cantatas Vol.8 - BWV 138-140, 143-159 & 161-162
Robert Holl (bass), Kurt Equiluz (tenor), Paul Esswood (counter-tenor), Thomas Hampson (bass), Max van Egmond (bass)
Leonhardt-Consort, Concentus Musicus Wien, Tölz Boys' Choir, Hanover Boys' Choir, Collegium Vocale, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Gustav Leonhardt
Purchase product
Downloads
Audio formats guide -
Bach Cantatas
Suzie LeBlanc (soprano), Daniel Taylor (counter-tenor), Jan Kobow (tenor)
Theatre of Early Music
-
Bach: Cantatas Nos. 161 and 169
Julia Hamari (alto), Gabor Lehotka (organ), Zsuzsa Pertis (harpsichord), Jozsef Reti (tenor)
Budapest Liszt Academy of Music Chamber Chorus, Franz Liszt Academy of Music Orchestra, Frigyes Sandor
Purchase product
Downloads
Audio formats guide -
JS Bach: Weimar Cantatas
Pascal Bertin (counter-tenor), Thomas Hobbs (tenor), Geoffroy Buffière (bass), Eugénie Lefebvre (soprano)
Ensemble Alia Mens, Olivier Spilmont
Purchase product
Downloads
Audio formats guide -
Bach - Cantatas Vol. 49
Arleen Augér, Kurt Equiluz, Julia Hamari, Lutz-Michael Harder, Walter Heldwein, Adalbert Kraus, Hildegard Laurich, Alyce Rogers, Wolfgang Schöne, Nikolaus Tüller, Helen Watts, Edith Wiens
Frankfurter Kantorei, Gächinger Kantorei, Helmuth Rilling
Purchase product
Downloads
Audio formats guide