大象传媒

Ian Skelly introduces performances of Mozart's airy flute quartets given by Emanuel Pahud and his colleagues in the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and the cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras and the SWR Vocal Ensemble present a moving sequence of Bach and Reger in the spacious acoustics of the cathedral in Koblenz. Reger himself said of his O Tod that: "It will be a shockingly sad work with a transfiguring conclusion."

Mozart
Flute Quartet No. 2 in G, K285a
Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Strings of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Reger
Mein Odem ist schwach, from Motets, Op. 110/1

Bach
Cello Suite No. 6 in D, BWV 1012
Prelude, Allemande, Courante
Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello)

Reger
Nachtlied, from Acht geistlichen Ges盲ngen, Op. 138
SWR Vocal Ensemble, Stuttgart, Frieder Bernius (director)

Bach
Cello Suite No. 6 in D, BWV 1012
Sarabande, Gavotte, Gigue
Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello)

Reger
O Tod, wie bitter bist du, from Motets, Op. 110/3
SWR Vocal Ensemble, Stuttgart, Frieder Bernius (director)
rec. St Castor's Basilica, Koblenz at the Rheinvokal Festival

Mozart
Flute Quartet No. 1 in D, K285
Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Strings of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra - Daishin Kashimoto (violin), Joaquin Riquelme Garcia (viola), Stephan Koncz (cello)
rec. Auditorium, Cantonal School, Glarus

Reger's Mein Odem is schwach ('My spirit is weak') (1909) sets words from the Book of Job.
O Tod, wie bitter bist du ('O death, how bitter you are') (1912) sets words from the Book of Ecclesiasticus and begins in the depths of grief but ends in sublime resignation.