Sunday, February 20th, 2011
February has been a busy travel month for me, so I haven’t posted as many new CDs on Klassic Haus Restorations as I have in past months. The ones I have managed to post, though are of great interest; the most recent being this recording with the great Karl Ristenpart conducting 2 Bach cantatas, one (BWV 56) receiving a second recording. Brief comments from the website follow:
KHCD-2011-024 (STEREO) – J. S. Bach: Cantata BWV 169 “Gott soll mein herze haben” – Eva Bornemann, contalto; Günter Karau, organ; Cantata BWV 56 “Ich will den Kreuzstab gernen tragen” – Jakob Stämpfli, bass; Erich Bolz, oboe; Chamber Orchestra of The Saar/Karl Ristenpart – Continuing with reissues of the recorded legacy of Karl Ristenpart, this disc is a transcription of a 1965 traversal of two of Bach’s solo cantatas. No. 56 receives a second recording by Ristenpart (the first was an Archiv recording made in June, 1951 with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau as soloist). Sensitive, intimate performances, well recorded by Club Français du Disque, and first issued on 2 Nonesuch LPs.
I am currently working on “Die Kunst der Fuge” BWV 1080 with Ristenpart conducting, and hope to have it posted by this weekend. More Ristenpart to come, as well as the Tchaikovsky Suite No. 2 with Walter Goehr conducting, some William Steinberg/Pittsburgh SO/Capitol recordings never reissued, and some exciting Dorati/Minneapolis on mono Mercurys. Please keep checking back! Cheers – Curt Timmons