Sophie Karthäuser reviews
Telemann: Miriways
André Morsch, Michael Nagy, et al; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin/Bernard Labadie (Pentatone)
JS Bach: ‘Liebster Jesu, mein Verlangen’, BWV 32; ‘Ich geh und suche mit Verlangsen’, BWV 49; ‘Selig ist der Mann’, BWV 57
Sophie Karthäuser, Michael Volle; Members of RIAS Kammerchor; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin/Raphael Alpermann (Harmonia Mundi)
Le Bal Des Animaux
Sophie Karthäuser & Eugene Asti (Harmonia Mundi)
Debussy: Harmonie du Soir
Sophie Karthäuser, Stéphane Degout,
Eugene Asti, Alain Planès (Harmonia Mundi)
René Jacobs gives a 'bold, innovative and passionate' interpretation of Mozart's Requiem
Bold, innovative and passionate, René Jacobs’s new reading of Mozart’s Requiem towers above the crowd. Pierre-Henri Dutron’s new completion of this famously unfinished score illuminates how Mozart was re-forging his musical language in the year he died to make it tauter and deeper, yet more transparent. So forceful are Mozart’s ideas that they regenerate themselves even in the completion by Franz Xaver Süssmayr, which Dutron adapts to realise more fully Mozart’s new procedures.