Pre-Order: Collegium1704 / Luks, Vaclav * Bach: Cantatas for Alto [New CD] Machine Head Galinhas Do Mato

Galinhas Do Mato

With an understanding of the individual character of the cello

Apito No Samba

Let My Love Open the Door - By Mikski

Pre-Order: Collegium1704 / Luks, Vaclav * Bach: Cantatas for Alto [New CD] Machine Head Galinhas Do MatoIn the summer autumn of 1726, Johann Sebastian Bach composed three solo cantatas for alto within a period of three months. It seems likely that at this time Bach had a particularly talented alto singer in his ranks. However, it is not known who this person was. It was probably a young singer who performed the pieces in falsetto, thus corresponding, as Benno Schachtner notes, to the type of singer we now refer to as a countertenor. All three cantatas