Dynamic All-Women Force Interprets Works by Monteverdi, Handel, Mendelssohn & Bach on CD!
Reference Recordings is proud to present a very special release! Entitled Le Dolce Sirene to represent the dynamic all-women force of Bach Aria Soloists, this exciting album includes works by Monteverdi, Handel, Mendelssohn and Bach, alongside a new transcription of Cecilia McDowall's song cycle Four Shakespeare Songs.
Hailed for producing "the most surprising and brilliantly innovative collaborations in Kansas City," Bach Aria Soloists dedicates their critically acclaimed concert series to presenting the genius and relevance of Johann Sebastian Bach, his contemporaries, and those he inspired. The ensemble's repertoire is adventurous and broad, including chamber music from Renaissance to contemporary, vocal arias, tango and new living composer commissions. BAS consists of founder/Artistic Director and violinist Elizabeth Suh Lane, GRAMMY®-winning soprano Sarah Tannehill Anderson, Elisa Williams Bickers who plays harpsichord, organ and piano and cellist Hannah Collins. Elizabeth Suh Lane calls their new recording, "a quintessential representation of our Baroque and contemporary chamber music performance. Much of it highlights our soprano Sarah Tannehill Anderson, but because of the exposed, soloistic compositional virtuosity of Bach and Handel, and the BAS treatment that we utilize for this music that begs for improvisation, it also exposes the versatility of virtuosity of all of our soloists."
Le Dolce Sirene was produced by BAS founder/Artistic Director Elizabeth Suh Lane. The album was recorded and edited by PJ Kelley of the Post Haus Acoustic, and by Kirk Patton (Mendelssohn Organ Sonata). It was mixed and mastered by multi-GRAMMY®-winning Robert Friedrich of Five/Four Productions.
Features
- CD
- Recorded, Mixed & Mastered Using REVEAL Super Dimension Music Technology®
- Digital Audio Workstation System: Merging Technologies Pyramix DAW
- Monitored Through: EMM Labs Switchman
- Monitor Speakers: ATC SCM 150, SCM 50 & SCM 25
- Produced by Elizabeth Suh Lane, Artistic Director
- Recording Engineer & Editor: PJ Kelley of The Post Haus Acoustic & Kirk Patton (Mendelssohn Organ Sonata)
- Mixing & Mastering Engineer: Robert Friedrich of Five/Four Productions, LLC
- Liner Notes by Steven Ledbetter
- Album Art Director: JoAnn Nunes
- Cover Photo: Dan White
- Made in the U.S.A.
- Total Time: 51:37
Musicians
Elizabeth Suh Lane | violin |
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Sarah Tannehill Anderson | soprano |
Elisa Williams Bickers | harpsichord, organ, piano |
Hannah Collins | cello |
Selections
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
- Si dolce è'l tormento, SV 332
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
- Rejoice Greatly from Messiah
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
- Sonata No. 4 for Organ, opus 65, no. 4, Allegro con brio
George Frideric Handel
- Süsse Stille, soprano aria with violin obligato, HWV 205
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
- Die Schätzbarkeit der weiten Erden, soprano aria with violin obligato, [BWV 204] (4th movement)
Sonata in G major for Violin and Continuo, BWV 1021
- Adagio
- Vivace
- Largo
- Presto
Cecilia McDowall (b.1951) - Four Shakespeare Songs
- What 'tis to love? (As You Like It, Act 5, scene 2)
- Give Me My Robe (Antony and Cleopatra, Act 5, scene 2)
- How should I your true love know? (Hamlet, Act 4, scene 5)
- First Rehearse (A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 5, scene 1)
Bach Aria Solists
- La Folia Variations (improvisation)