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La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken

Magnificent and transparent, a recording of the famous masterpiece by J.S. Bach by La Petite Bande and Sigiswald Kuijken. The ensemble has a worldwide reputation of aiming for the most authentic sound possible. Again Kuijken and his group of musicians and vocalists have achieved this the most sublime way!
Sigiswald Kuijken knows the St. Matthew Passion through and through. With La Petite Bande he gave performances of the work all over the world. Twenty years ago La Petite Bande (at that time with conductor Gustav Leonhardt and Kuijken as concertmaster) made their first recording of the Passion. It was a recording with soloists, a chamberchoir and an orchestral composition which was adjusted to that. Since then Kuijken's vision on this masterpiece has changed very much. Ground-breaking musicological work of the last decades has brought him to a serious thin-out of his ensemble without the use of a conductor. There is not a real choir anymore, because the soloists perform also the choirparts. The boyschoir that is usually used in most performances of this Passion is replaced here by a single soprano voice!  

Additionally, by using authentic instruments and the original way of playing them, both in interpretation and sound quality, La Petite Bande strives to revive baroque music as faithfully as possible without lapsing into rigid academics.
La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken

Soloists:
Gerlinde Sämann: soprano I   
Marie Kuijken: soprano II
Petra Noskaiová: alto I   
Patrizia Hardt: alto II
Christoph Genz: tenor I & Evangelist 
Bernhard Hunziker: tenor II
Jan Van der Crabben: bass I & Jesus
Marcus Niedermeyr: bass II 
Emilie De Voght: soprano in ripieno Ancillae I II, Uxor Pilati
Olivier Berten: Petrus, Pilatus, Pontifex II
Nicolas Achten: Judas, Pontifex (Caiphas), Pontifex I 
   
Orchestra I
Sigiswald Kuijken, Katharina Wulf: violin I          
Jin Kim, Annelies Decock: violin II     
Marleen Thiers: violaMarian Minnen: Basse de violon
Sigiswald Kuijken: Viola da gamba  
Ewald Demeyere: OrganMarc Hantaï, Yifen Chen: Traverso & recorder          
Vinciane Baudhuin, Patrick Beaugiraud: Oboe, Oboe d’amore, Oboe da caccia Oboe

Orchestra II
Sara Kuijken, Makoto Akatsu: Violin IGiulio D'Alessio, Masanobu Tokura, Violin II
Mika Akiha: Viola
Ronan Kernoa: Basse de violonGeorges Barthel, Sien Huybrechts: Traverso
Emiliano Rodolfi, Rodrigo Guti: Oboe, Oboe d’amore

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"A transparent, musically lived through translation which especially in the Gloria brings unexpected coincide to the surface."- Maarten-Jan Dongelmans, De Gelderlander (about the H-Moll Messe)

"This recording is so much more transparent and also the vocal virtuosity becomes organical and truthful, when a quartet of very good vocalists perform it. This all gives a new artistic dimension, a new pleasure, a new insight, for Sigiswald Kuijken himself, and also for the lover of Bachs music."
- CDENDVD.nl about the H-Moll-Messe

"There will always be discussion about the size of the musical ensemble in performing the Mattheus Passion, but what is an indisputable fact is that Kuijken with his minimal cast, convinces in all aspects." Klassieke Zaken

"Who is looking for a beautiful solistic Matthäus has the best deal with Kuijken for now, also looked at from an recording technique point of view." Maarten Brandt - Opus Klassiek 22 februari 2010


It is almost time for easter is ,traditionally the time for the beautiful musical St. Matthew Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach. For those who can not go to a concert or who simply can not get enough, this wonderful album of the Baroque orchestra La Petite Bande is their solution. Yvonne Rieschke - 50plussers.nl-February 2010