There are many beautiful things about these recordings of Bach's Magnificat and Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis Cantata, but beauty isn't really the ultimate point. With Sigiswald Kuijken leading four totally dedicated soloists plus La Petite Bande, truth is the point, the kind of incontrovertible, unrelenting, and unyielding truth that wakes you up in ...
With the sheer glut of recordings of Antonio Vivaldi's Four Seasons on the market, it takes some special approach to make yet another recording of this chestnut seem interesting and palatable. Because Sigiswald Kuijken and his cohorts, La Petite Bande, understand this enormous problem, they have resorted to two innovative ideas: first, to perform ...
Sigiswald Kuijken was once just the violin-playing Kuijken who used to join his brothers, the transverse flute-playing Barthold and the viola da gamba playing Wieland, plus harpsichord playing Gustav Leonhardt to perform and record Baroque chamber music. After his gut-wrenching, soul-transforming recording of Bach's solo violin sonatas and ...
There is magic in this Die Zauberflöte -- the warmly glowing intonation of La Petite Bande, the pure Pamina of Suzie LeBlanc, the idealized Sorastro of Cornelius Hauptmann, the ardent Tamino of Christoph Genz, the robust Papageno of Stephan Genz, the lovely Papagna of Marie Kuijken, the deeply knowing conducting of Sigiswald Kuijken, even the ...
Does the name Sigiswald Kuijken mean anything to you? How about his brother Wieland Kuijken? How about the name of the string quartet they founded together with François Fernandez and Marleen Theirs in 1986, the Kuijken Quartet? No? It's not surprising. Although the players are among the finest Dutch period instrument musicians, with the Kuijken ...
This double-disc reissue combines two releases by Barthold, Sigiswald, and Wieland Kuijken, respectively from 1978 and 1986. The earlier one, especially, dates from the years when historical-performance philosophies were first applied to music of the Classical era, and both recordings have held up well. Barthold Kuijken's gentle transverse flute ...
Thankfully, Sigiswald Kuijken doesn't feel the overwhelming urge to record every extant sacred cantata by J.S. Bach. That project would have consumed years of his life -- and at best only equaled the achievements of other, earlier explorers. By choosing to record only enough cantatas to span a single liturgical year of Sundays plus the major holy ...
Historical-instrument-specialist violinist Sigiswald Kuijken and fortepianist Luc Devos have issued several discs of Mozart "Sonatas for Fortepiano and Violin," otherwise known as Sonatas for violin and piano. Here they collect those discs and round them out with two more to make a complete set of Mozart's sonatas for this combination. The wording ...
There are quite a few French Baroque ballet and opera samplers on the market, perhaps because theses repertories, with their arcane textual and musical conventions and their unfamiliar genres, are thought to be rather inaccessible for general listeners in complete works or large chunks of them. The reconstructions of William Christie and others, ...
Recorded in October 2006 while concertmaster and conductor Sigiswald Kuijken and La Petite Bande were in the midst of recording a liturgical year's worth of Lutheran church cantatas by Bach, this disc of two youthful Cassations and a Divertimento by Mozart shows the width of Kuijken's repertoire, the breadth of his sympathies, and the depth of his ...
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