Magdalena Kozena / Goebel / Musica Antiqua Köln - Lamento (2005, Archiv Produktion # 00289 474 1942 AH)

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Magdalena Kozena - Lamento
Musica Antiqua Köln / Reinhard Goebel
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Label/Cat#: Archiv Produktion # 00289 474 1942 AH | Country/Year: Germany 2005
Genre: Classical | Style: Vocal, Baroque

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Gramophone's artist of the year, Kozená and Reinhard Goebel's Musica Antiqua Köln explore the lachrymose world of German baroque music, which is extraordinarily vivid in its expression of grief . . . a remarkable performance . . .
Record Review / Music Week (London) / 15. January 2005

The fascinating repertory further expands the team's researches into the Bach family catalogue . . . Kozená brings to this material commitment, powerful feeling, and great flexibility: hers is truly a voice of many colours. Consume this CD whole.
Record Review / The Times (London) / 28. January 2005

As usual, Kozená offers clean tone, fine flexibility, crisp textual delivery and stylistic intelligence. Even in the tricky central aria of BWV 170 (at nearly 18 minutes, the disc's 'centrepiece'), with the vocal line pitted against an obbligato part for organ, she confronts the many difficulties head-on . . . I hasten to add that when Kozená's timbre matches her music, the results are memorable. One need only hear the bracing crystalline, indubitably soprano tone she brings to the opening of C.P.E. Bach's "Selma" to realize instantly that this is the 'real' Kozená. Another similarly enchanting discovery ¿ and one that sits ideally in her voice . . . ¿ is J.C.F. Bach's scena "Die Amerikanerin", a veritable Baroque melodrama in which the singer's operatic experience works to her advantage . . . World-wide there is no ensemble more impressive for this type of programme than Goebel's Musica Antiqua Köln; listeners should be grateful to experience original-instrument playing that so beautifully combines the ultimate in technical ease and stylistic authority with exceptionally full-bodied tone. Archiv provides full translations and superbly vivid recorded sound.
Record Review / Roger Pines, International Record Review (London) / 01. February 2005

Kozená's declamatory performance is thrilling . . .
Record Review / David Vickers, Gramophone (London) / 01. June 2005

Kozená's voice, smooth and assured, is a delight in itself.
Record Review / Mary Kunz Goldmann, Buffalo News / 11. September 2005

Kozená lavishes her firm lyrical mezzo-soprano and keen musicianship on a varied collection . . . Kozená fashions a seamless flow of beautifully modulated tone in the long-lined arias, but she also creates some vocal fireworks in the dazzling allegros . . . Archiv's outstanding digital recording captures the voice and instruments with remarkable clarity.
Record Review / Robert Baxter, Courier-Post (Cherry Hill) / 11. September 2005

. . . overall the excellent singing of Kozená tips the balance in favor of the disc. The Conti follow the familiar format of alternating recitative and arias, the whole completed with a briliant Alleluia . . . The performance gets off to a fine start, with Kozená's rapt singing of the opening accompanied recitative immediately drawing in the listener. But the first aria finds Goebel up to his old tricks, with chords sliced through with a brusqueness that serves to undermine any Italiante lyricism the singer tries to instill. Bach would doubtless have admired not only the restraint with which Conti handles the rapturous text of the second aria, but also its lovely obligato violin solo, most winningly played by Stephan Schardt. Kozaná's singing of it is gorgeous . . . the highlight of the disc is the wonderful performance of the scena by Bach's second youngest son, Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach . . . The music is through composed and surges with a vivid, passionate intensity that at times brings reminders of Gluck. Kozená responds to the music with glorious freedom and an ardent urgency that culminates in a sensual, barely whispered climax. Goebel is on his best behavior here, too, and the disc is worth hearing for this remarkable word, and its equally remarkable performance.
Record Review / Brian Robins, Fanfare (Tenafly, NJ) / 01. January 2006

I would be very hard pressed to find another single recording of this high quality that so clearly demonstrates the musicality of the Bach family.
Record Review / Brewer, American Record Guide / 01. January 2006

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