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Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner
Bach: Motets (Soli Deo Gloria)
Gardiner sets up some pretty strong expectations, looking at the cover of a tightrope walker in full challenge followed by Gardiner proclaiming Bach's Six Motets as the most perfect, the most hypnotic of all his works, bar none, and among the most challenging to sing.
Here though, Gardiner with all his splendid recordings and career integrity casts a fresh light on such well-earned hyperbole. This is not only a dazzling display of choral singing but a deeply inviting window into a profound and endlessly inspiring listening experience.
The choir is spellbinding in its precision and characterization, the depictions of instruments in BWV225 one example among many. Gardiner spotlights, underscores and colours fearlessly, his astonishing choir on hair-trigger alert with unfailing response to Bach's frequent stance of joyful release in death plus many moments of response in faith and prayer that find exactly the right emotional settings. One is in awe of Bach's airtight musical arguments throughout. Very likely the choral album of the year. 'Ö'Ö'Ö'Ö'Ö
-- James Manishen
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition August 18, 2012 G4
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