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Ikebe: Kohru
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de: Camerata
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Bach: St. John Passion
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de: Bis
Chroniques et points de vue:From :The Bach Collegium Japan has outdone itself: this St. John Passion is among the very best recordings in a crowded field--and not just because it includes three rarely performed items from Bach's intermediate versions of the work. As the Evangelist, Gerd Türk doesn't ladle rich, creamy vocalism over Bach's recitative; rather, using a low, natural-sounding volume as his base level, he uses subtle (and occasionally sudden) shifts of volume and tempo to recount the narrative like a genuine storyteller. At times Türk's delivery approaches 'speech-song', yet in ...
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