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Early Music Today (09-11/2014)
Harmonia Mundi
HMU807588
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In their third recording together on the Harmonia Mundi label, David Bates and his talented band of instrumentalists and singers move from Handel and Vivaldi to earlier repertoire and the roots of the oratorio. Constructed like a concert programme, Sacrifices presents two oratorios by Charpentier and one by Carissimi, thematically linked by Biblical themes of sacrifice and denial, each of which is preceded by an instrumental work by Sébastian de Brossard. The recording itself has the quality of a live performance. Crucially, Bates brings to the fore the dramatic qualities of each oratorio. The album leads towards and culminates with Carissimi's Historia di Jephte, and the lament of Jephtha's daughter, sung with powerful outrage and pathos by soprano Sophie Junker. The glorious wash of the following, final chorus is the dramatic culmination of everything heard before.
Bates always keeps a sense of pace in the long lines of this music, gloriously in the finale of Charpentier’s La Reniement de Saint Pierre. The ensemble singing is unconstrained and nothing short of radiant, and the de Brossard instrumental pieces offer both balance and the instrumentalists of La Nuova Musica the chance to bring colour and vibrancy to the record.
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