Bach: Cantatas

Outstanding soprano Natalie Dessay and conductor Emmanuelle Haïm have displayed a unique and powerful musical understanding of each other on their numerous Handel recordings for Virgin Classics. Following their recent recording of Bach's Magnificat and Handel's Dixit Dominus, Dessay and Haïm decided to record their first all-Bach recital. The program features three of Bach's glorious cantatas, including the great Ich habe genug, in Bach's own arrangement for soprano, BWV 82a. For the other two cantatas, the two women chose Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen -- one of Bach's best-known cantatas, with a gorgeous and virtuosic part for solo trumpet performed here by Neil Brough -- and Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut, one of the earliest cantatas Bach composed. On all three, Dessay and Haïm rise above the technical demands to produce music of breathtaking beauty.