\nBach Vergnugte Ruh! Beliebte Seelenlust<\/em>
\nMasaaki Suzuki, conductor
\nBach Collegium Japan<\/small><\/p>\n
Right? So good. What I would really love, though, is for somebody knowledgeable about Bach to take me through a year or two with the cantatas, presenting them in liturgically appropriate order, etc., and digging out the best recordings. My natural instinct is to hoard recordings but I’m scared that something like this aria would fall through the cracks. Any recommendations for a book?<\/p>\n
One thing about touring that always happens is that we all get obsessed with a song and are perpetually running around singing it. Unfortunately, this trip this was the winner:<\/p>\n[audio:Smell Yo Boys.mp3]\n
…which as far as I can tell is the infamous “Smell Yo Dick” song but subjected to the Junior Boys treatment; the whole thing is so good, and I had forgotten how beautiful the vocal inflection is “\u201d landing on an appoggiatura is a time-tested trick for plaintive content; what works even better here is that it leans into a suspended note, sort of, so the whole thing becomes quite melancholic.<\/p>\n
The phrase iterations:<\/p>\n
It reminds me, weirdly, of one of my favorite phrases in opera, which is Adams’s setting of “Sea-Level” about a minute into this aria from The Death of Klinghoffer<\/em>.<\/p>\n [audio:FallingBody.mp3] Deelish, right? Dropping a ninth, too, is a really awesome thing and it sits really well in this voice. <\/p>\n I am happily stuck in Iceland. I had to cancel a show in Valencia, which was hideously agonizing “\u201d the airports were intermittently shutting down in Iceland, and I was scared that if I left, I would never get back! There is a certain glamor to having one’s motions restricted by something as unpredictable as a Volcano; the charts and graphs of the predicted plume are deliciously old-fashioned and can be found here<\/a>. I’ve been hitting refresh constantly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How many Bach cantata recordings do you guys own? Because I own a TON, and I’ve finally gotten it all together digitally to figure out what’s going on. I have a lot of Ton Koopman, another ton of Masaaki Suzuki, Gardiner, it’s really nuts. I’ve been listening to them all day, and there are some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2052"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2065,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052\/revisions\/2065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Smell-400x44.jpg\" "\\"Smell\\"")
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\nJohn Adams
\nAria of the Falling Body<\/em> (Gymnop\u00e9die) from The Death of Klinghoffer<\/em>
\nKent Nagano \/ Lyon<\/small><\/p>\n