Hellen Kwon is jubilant in Bach's challenging cantata скачать в хорошем качестве

Hellen Kwon is jubilant in Bach's challenging cantata

THE SONGBIRD: Korean soprano, Hellen Kwon, won first prize at the 1984 Novara International Singing Competition in Italy. In the same year, Hellen Kwon made her debut as Queen of the Night in Wiesbaden. She has subsequently performed this role in many international opera houses such as those in Paris, Zürich, Munich, and Vienna. She was first engaged at the Hamburg Opera in 1997, where she has since performed many leading roles including Sophie, Zdenka, Zerbinetta, Norina, Susanna, Blonde, Konstanza, Fiordiligi, Donna Anna, Gilda, Adele, Olympia, and Nedda. Kwon has sung at international festivals including Bayreuth, Glyndebourne, Aix-en-Provence, and Salzburg, also at the festival "Mozart at Schönbrunn" in Vienna. Her commercial discography includes several solo recital recordings of arias and lieder. THE MUSIC: Johann Sebastian Bach's "Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen" BWV 51 is his only church cantata scored for a soprano soloist and trumpet. The first known performance was on September 17, 1730 in Leipzig. The work may have been composed earlier, possibly for an occasion at the court of Christian, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels, for whom Bach had created the Hunting Cantata and the Shepherd Cantata. Bach structured #51 in five movements, with the solo voice accompanied by an instrumental ensemble of a solo trumpet, strings, and continuo. The jubilant opening and closing movements call for elaborate virtuosity and interplay between the trumpet and soprano voice topping out at a few High Cs, while the introspective central movements evoke spiritual depth and inner peace.