Cantatas of the Bach Family Benjamin Appl, Berliner Barock Solisten & Reinhard Goebel

• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714 - 1788): Ich bin vergnügt mit meinem Stande, Wq. deest:
• 1Ich bin vergnügt mit meinem Stande, Wq. deest: No. 1, Ich bin vergnügt mit meinem Stande02:52
• 2Ich bin vergnügt mit meinem Stande, Wq. deest: No. 2, Im Schweiße meines Angesichts01:09
• 3Ich bin vergnügt mit meinem Stande, Wq. deest: No. 3, Lieber Gott, es ist das Deine05:17
• Symphony in F Major, Wq. deest:
• 4Symphony in F Major, Wq. deest: I. Allegro03:37
• 5Symphony in F Major, Wq. deest: II. Adagio02:00
• 6Symphony in F Major, Wq. deest: III. Allegro assai01:40
• Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732 - 1795): Pygmalion, Wf XVIII:5:
• 7Pygmalion, Wf XVIII:5: No. 1, Abgöttin meiner Seele!02:10
• 8Pygmalion, Wf XVIII:5: No. 2, Ihr Götter welche Phantaseyn!07:56
• 9Pygmalion, Wf XVIII:5: No. 3, Nicht taub, nicht fühllos, nein00:39
• 10Pygmalion, Wf XVIII:5: No. 4, Ach, dass mein irdisch Ohr nicht fähig ist01:52
• 11Pygmalion, Wf XVIII:5: No. 5, Ach, es muss ein Teil der Gottheit01:40
• 12Pygmalion, Wf XVIII:5: No. 6, O Venus! Saturnia! Bracht ich nur dir02:44
• 13Pygmalion, Wf XVIII:5: No. 7, O Himmel! Der Boden wankt03:38
• 14Pygmalion, Wf XVIII:5: No. 8, Nun senkt sie Haupt und Hand herab03:02
• 15Pygmalion, Wf XVIII:5: No. 9, Bald sollen diese Lippen mich06:38
• 16Pygmalion, Wf XVIII:5: No. 10, Ja, diese leichte Mühe, dies selige Geschäft00:26
• 17Pygmalion, Wf XVIII:5: No. 11, Allgütige! Wofern dich hier noch02:55
• Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710 - 1784): Symphony in B-Flat Major, F 71:
• 18Symphony in B-Flat Major, F 71: I. Allegro04:44
• 19Symphony in B-Flat Major, F 71: II. Andante04:01
• 20Symphony in B-Flat Major, F 71: III. Presto01:39
• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750): Ich habe genug, BWV 82 (1747 Version):
• 21Ich habe genug, BWV 82 (1747 Version): No. 1, Ich habe genug06:11
• 22Ich habe genug, BWV 82 (1747 Version): No. 2, Ich habe genug01:17
• 23Ich habe genug, BWV 82 (1747 Version): No. 3, Schlummert ein, ihr matten Augen06:22
• 24Ich habe genug, BWV 82 (1747 Version): No. 4, Mein Gott! Wann kömmt das schöne00:46
• 25Ich habe genug, BWV 82 (1747 Version): No. 5, Ich freue mich auf meinen Tod03:40
• Total Runtime01:18:55

Info for Cantatas of the Bach Family

As we reflect on Johann Sebastian Bach and his sons, we are all too likely to overlook the fact that there were six sons from two marriages who inclined towards Music. True, Maria Barbaras third son Johann Gottfried Bernhard, born in Weimar in 1715, more or less disappeared from view in 1737, and it is plain that Anna Magdalenas first son Gottfried Heinrich, born in 1724, was mentally handicapped: A great Genius, which however was never developed, wrote his half-brother Carl Philipp Emanuel in the family chronicle. For thirty years, making and writing music, he had been the musical front-runner in Saxony and Thuringia: the vanguard was located wherever he was, in his hands and at his writing-desk. Increasingly, twenty-year-olds and a few late starters in their thirties were coming on to the market and showing Bach a new way forward: the galant style, spreading north from Naples ever since 1715, and the flamboyant, ever more richly ornamented music of the late Baroque, constantly threatening to break down under the weight of emblematic connotation and religious symbolism, in contrast to that simpler form, written by mortals for mortals, distinguished by its slow, easily comprehensible harmony and its truly singable melodies in what was at most an expanded two-part structure.

Benjamin Appl, baritone
Berliner Barock Solisten
Reinhard Goebel, direction

Benjamin Appl
Hailed as ‘the most promising of today’s up-and-coming song recitalists’ (Financial Times), baritone Benjamin Appl is celebrated by audiences and critics alike for a voice that ‘belongs to the last of the old great masters of song’ with ‘an almost infinite range of colours’ (Süddeutsche Zeitung), ‘exacting attention to text’ (New York Times), and artistry that’s described as ‘unbearably moving’ (The Times). Named Gramophone Award Young Artist of the Year in 2016, Appl was a member of the BBC New Generation Artist scheme from 2014-16, as well as a Wigmore Hall Emerging Artist and ECHO Rising Star for the 2015-16 season, appearing at major venues throughout Europe, including the Barbican Centre London, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Wiener Konzerthaus, Philharmonie Paris and Cologne and the Laeiszhalle Hamburg. He signed exclusively to SONY Classical in May 2016.

Appl started in music as a young chorister at the renowned Regensburger Domspatzen, later continuing his studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München and eventually at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London. He had the good fortune of being mentored by the legendary singer Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Appl says, ‘my years of working with Fischer-Dieskau were invaluable and had a hugely formative influence on me. He is an inspiration – someone who is always searching and seeking a deeper understanding of music and of life. He was a role model for how to prosper as an artist, never just delivering, but each time creating.’

Appl is increasingly in demand on the world’s most prestigious stages, collaborating with ensembles such as the NHK Symphony Orchestra, Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Staatskapelle Dresden, Philharmonia Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, Vienna Symphony, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich, Hamburg Ballet, Academy of Ancient Music, Gabrieli Players & Consort, Les Violons du Roy, Concerto Köln, and with multiple BBC orchestras. He made his BBC Proms debut in September 2015 singing Brahms’ Triumphlied with Marin Alsop and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.

An established recitalist, he has performed at the Ravinia, Rheingau, Schleswig Holstein, Edinburgh International, Life Victoria Barcelona, Leeds Lieder and Oxford Lieder festivals, deSingel Antwerp, Heidelberger Frühling, and at the KlavierFestival Ruhr. He has performed at major concert venues including Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Het Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and the Musée de Louvre, Paris, in addition to which he is a regular recitalist at Wigmore Hall and at the Schubertiade Hohenems and Schwarzenberg. He works closely with pianists Graham Johnson and James Baillieu.

Appl is equally sought for his work in oratorio; notable past works include Bach’s Magnificat,St Johnand St Matthewpassions, Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem, Händel’s The Messiah,Haydn’s The Creationand Britten’s War Requiem. In 2017 he performed in the internationally televised ZDF Adventskonzert concert at the Dresden Frauenkirche with the Staatskapelle Dresden and Christian Thielemann.

Recent and forthcoming highlights include his role debut as Guglielmo inCosì fan tuttewith Classical Opera Company, three recitals at New York City’s Park Avenue Armory featuring all three Schubert song cycles, a debut performance in Bach’s Mass in B Minorwith the Philadelphia Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, his Paris orchestral debut at the Saint-Denis Festival with the Orchestre National de Lille, and debut recitals at Carnegie Hall, Grand Théâtre in Geneva, Linz Brucknerhaus, and Salzburg Mozarteum. In Spring 2020, Appl is featured artist on the Dortmund Konzerthaus’s Zeitinsel series, in a programme dedicated to composer György Kurtág. He also celebrates the Berlin Baroque Soloists’ 25th anniversary in a special jubilee concert hosted by the Berlin Philharmonie.

Appl’s growing discography includes Schumann duets with Ann Murray (DBE), accompanied by Malcolm Martineau; his debut solo disc ’Stunden, Tage, Ewigkeiten’ accompanied by James Baillieu, which was released in April 2016 on Champs Hill records; and a live recording of Schubert lieder with Graham Johnson for the Wigmore Hall Live label. His first solo album for SONY Classical, ‘Heimat’, was Gramophone nominated and won the prestigious Prix Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Best Lieder Singer) at the 2017/18 Académie du Disque Lyrique Orphées d’Or. Most recently, Appl released a recording of Bach with Concerto Köln for SONY Classical, as well as Sibelius’s Kullervowith the BBC Scottish Symphony and Thomas Dausgaard for Hyperion Records.

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