Johann Sebastian Bach - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - Johann Christian Bach - Karel van Steenhoven

Oboe passion - Arias & concertos by J.S. Bach & sons

Pauline & Nienke Oostenrijk / Amsterdam Sinfonietta / Jaap ter Linden

Label: Challenge Classics
Format: SACD
Barcode: 0608917250626

Catalog number: CC 72506
Releasedate: 27-09-11

A double-cd with in the leading roles two sisters: Pauline and Nienke Oostenrijk. Pauline plays on both cd's: one with Arias for Soprano and Oboe and one with Oboe Concertos. Pauline Oostenrijks says in her linernotes with this cd: "Each time anew, it is a thrilling experience for us to be able to perform this music." And that is the passion is what we hear in this re-release of two superb cd's!

Part of the 'Aangenaam Klassiek' campaign
A re-release (double-cd) of two superb cd's
Pauline Oostenrijk is an internationally acclaimed oboist
Pauline Oostenrijk is solo-oboist of the Residentie Orchestra of The Hague
In 1999, Pauline Oostenrijk received the Music Prize of the Netherlands, the highest State Award in classical music
Before that she won a number of national and international prizes, among which the first prize in the Fernand Gillet oboe competition in Baltimore, resulting in a recital in Carnegie Hall, New York
In 1986 she was the Dutch 'Young Musician of the Year'
Soprano Nienke van Oostenrijk studied at the Sweelinck School of Music in Amsterdam and took master-classes with Arleen Augér, Elly Ameling, Robert Holl and others
Nienke Oostenrijk appears in opera roles as well as on the concert platform in The Netherlands and throughout Europe
Apart from being an opera singer Nienke Oostenrijk is a much sought-after Lieder singer and concert soloists

A double-cd with in the leading roles two sisters: Pauline and Nienke Oostenrijk. Pauline plays on both cd's: one with Arias for Soprano and Oboe and one with Oboe Concertos. But there is another leading role except the ones of the soprano and the oboe: composer Johann Sebastian Bach! And last but not least also two of his most famous sons can be heard: Johann Christian and Carl Philipp Emanuel.

About the Arias, Pauline Oostenrijk writes in the linernotes: "from a Christian viewpoint – the cantatas were after all written for performance during church services – every conceivable human emotion is portrayed, translated into music. Exuberant joy, deep mourning, love, sadness. The texts of the arias on this CD bear witness to a profound religious devotion, but even if the texts themselves do not stir you, the masterful way they are set to music is stunning. The arias are without equal, not only in the range of moods and emotions they express, but also in the themes and motifs that Bach selects in giving musical form to words and ideas. The ultimate meeting of text and music. The ultimate meeting of the human voice and oboe, which sometimes seem to melt into each other.

Each time anew, it is a thrilling experience for us to be able to perform this music.