Aksel! Arias by Bach, Handel & Mozart | Signum SIGCD435

Aksel! Arias by Bach, Handel & Mozart

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Label: Signum

Cat No: SIGCD435

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 2nd September 2016

Contents

Works

Bach, Johann Sebastian

Bist du bei mir, BWV508
Cantata BWV51 'Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen'
» Aria: Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen
Cantata BWV68 'Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt'
» II Aria: 'Mein glaubiges Herze'
Cantata BWV205 'Der zufriedengestellte Aolus'
» Angenehmer Zephyrus
Magnificat in D major, BWV243
» Quia respexit humilitatem
St John Passion, BWV245
» Ich folge dir gleichfalls

Handel, George Frideric

Alcina, HWV34
» Barbara!
» Chi m'insegna il caro padre
Joshua, HWV64
» Happy, oh thrice happy we
» Oh! had I Jubal's lyre
Messiah, HWV56
» How beautiful are the feet
» Thou art gone up on high
Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne 'Eternal source of light divine', HWV74
Rinaldo, HWV7
» Lascia ch'io pianga (Let me weep)
Samson, HWV57
» Let the bright Seraphim

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Exsultate, jubilate, K165
» III Alleluia
Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), K492
» Non so piu cosa son, cosa facio
» Voi che sapete (Act 2)

Artists

Aksel Rykkvin (treble)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Conductor

Nigel Short

Works

Bach, Johann Sebastian

Bist du bei mir, BWV508
Cantata BWV51 'Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen'
» Aria: Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen
Cantata BWV68 'Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt'
» II Aria: 'Mein glaubiges Herze'
Cantata BWV205 'Der zufriedengestellte Aolus'
» Angenehmer Zephyrus
Magnificat in D major, BWV243
» Quia respexit humilitatem
St John Passion, BWV245
» Ich folge dir gleichfalls

Handel, George Frideric

Alcina, HWV34
» Barbara!
» Chi m'insegna il caro padre
Joshua, HWV64
» Happy, oh thrice happy we
» Oh! had I Jubal's lyre
Messiah, HWV56
» How beautiful are the feet
» Thou art gone up on high
Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne 'Eternal source of light divine', HWV74
Rinaldo, HWV7
» Lascia ch'io pianga (Let me weep)
Samson, HWV57
» Let the bright Seraphim

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Exsultate, jubilate, K165
» III Alleluia
Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), K492
» Non so piu cosa son, cosa facio
» Voi che sapete (Act 2)

Artists

Aksel Rykkvin (treble)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Conductor

Nigel Short

About

Norwegian boy-soprano Aksel Rykvvin has quickly built a reputation as a rare talent, combining an intelligent musicality with a beautifully resonant treble voice. On his debut recording he is accompanied by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under Nigel Short in a selection of arias by Mozart, Handel and JS Bach. Many of the arias performed are considered too technically demanding for boy singers – in particular Mozart’s Exsultate jubilate which was composed for the castrato Venunzio Rauzzini, and several of Bach’s Cantatas which were written at a time when singers often maintained their treble voices until the age of 16 or 17.

“Freakishly good, with a musical assurance and richness of tone that are almost superhuman.” - Financial Times

“Sung with extraordinary poise and feeling by treble Aksel Rykkvin” - Times Literary Supplement

“A voice which comes along only once or twice in a generation.” - National Archive of Recorded Church Music

Reviews

Boy trebles have a limited lifespan, and need to be captured at their peak, but they have a unique appeal. Voices break earlier today than they did in the baroque period, which makes the achievement of 13-year-old Norwegian Aksel Rykkvin in demanding repertory all the more remarkable. This disc is packed full of confident, musical singing, though not always impeccable in intonation.  Nicholas Kenyon
The Observer 7 August 2016

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