J S Bach; Buxtehude - Iestyn Davies

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J S Bach; Buxtehude - Iestyn Davies

J S Bach; Buxtehude - Iestyn Davies

CDA 68375 (Hyperion Records, CD)

FIRST RELEASE (4 February 2022)
Tracks: 22
Booklet pages: 30
℗ 2022 Hyperion Records Ltd
© 2022 Hyperion Records Ltd
Main country of recording: United Kingdom
Reviewer: Gerald Fenech
Review of J S Bach; Buxtehude - Iestyn Davies published on 19 February 2022

Recorded 7-9 October 2020 at St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, UK.

Both of these cantatas may have been written for an outstandingly gifted boy alto in Bach's Leipzig, but—listening to these peerless accounts - it's impossible to believe he could have approached Iestyn Davies' ﬂawless technique and profound interpretative insight.

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