Genug: Motets and Cantatas

Ensemble Bachwerkvokal, Gordon Safari

"It is enough" Within this new CD, as part of their ongoing series, Gordon Safari and his ensemble BachWerkVokal have once again built a programme around these words that are rich in their associations to secular choral music.

As always, BachWerkVokal is on top form. The accomplished ensemble, with only a few singers, is contrasted by an equally flexible instrumental ensemble of various wind and percussion instruments. Gordon Safari shapes this with stylistic confidence.

Through choral works by Bach, Alma Mahler, Schelle and Gruchmann, Safari and BachWerkVokal tackle both historical and modern writing with ease. The use of the entire church hall for the recording of Gruchmann's cantata provides a spatial sound that shines through on Super Audio CD.

Johann Sebastian Bach: Komm, Jesu, komm BWV 229; Ich habe genug BWV 82; O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort BWV 60
+Johann Schelle: Komm, Jesu, komm
+Alma Mahler-Werfel: Laue Sommernacht; Hymne an die Nacht
+Jakob Gruchmann: Genug
+Johann Rudolf Ahle: Über die Sehnworte des Elias - Es ist genug!