I think so too. Marcel Ponseele the oboist is amazing.

C.A. Barstow My favorite is Max von Egmond singing baritone with Franz Bruggen conducting the Baroque Orchestra fur the Ich Have Genug & Kreuzstab Cantatas. But this baritone, tho he's not as nimble as von Egmond is pretty close in sound. What's this gentleman's name? Is he German?

@@poopsytwinkleshit3465 , yes he is, his name is Klaus Mertens. Though you like the Bruggen, I will tell you that, regardless of his honours to music, his style of interpreting Bach isn't up to date anymore. This version is pretty new (2013?). So it is obviuosly closer to our way we perform Bach today. I am not really found of him eitherr but that has nothing to do with the recording. I always think that his timbre isn't fitting. I heard some really great singers perform it during the last years and now I realize that it is due to his close connection to Ton Koopman. Sigiswald Kuijken and Marcus Ponseele are masters of their subject and so the "rescue" this recording.

@@tobiasstudtheol it’s pretty funny (absurd) to read somebody say that somebody’s style isn’t “up to date any more”. what an absurdity, which glorifies the present transient moment - which is always becoming the past. and is no longer “up to date” either. Bach isn’t up to date. And paradoxically, whenever he copied out an old work he would change it in many small ways at least, improving it or changing it. That is life! it doesn’t mean the old version should be discarded however. “up to date” is a meaningless yardstick. Kuijken and Bruggen remain marvelous musicians (despite the passage of a few years and fads), and Mertens and von Egmond as well. I wholeheartedly approve of the idea of trying to recapture the sound world and concepts of Bach’s time, but that doesn’t mean that performances are actually getting any better. Marian Anderson and Kathleen Ferrier sang Erbarme Dich beautifuly 80 years ago - accompanied by a piano. Or a dripping romantic orchestra. if we really think up to date performances are much better, we are deluding ourselves.

My feeling too. On dit ainsi que c'est bien le seul instrument qui s'approche de la voix humaine

זה קיים גם בגרסה לסופרן.

OK pour F Diskau qui reste légendaire, sans déprécier K Mertens, mais ce type d'orchestration sonne très étrangement pour des oreilles habituées aux instruments anciens ; le vibrato des cordes, surtout. Et puis Marcel Ponseele, quoi ! Il a quelque chose en plus, sans doute parce qu'il fabrique lui-même ses instruments.

Dag Marcel, ge zijt onovertroffen. Ik weet wat het is om te realiseren dat wat jij kan. Grtjs

That is not “accompaniment”; it is the other musicians - playing music Bach wrote to be heard.

The orchestra is wonderful, especially the oboe, but the mixing of the recording is a bit unbalanced, as you say.

Accompaniment in Bach is never an 'accompaniment'.

geil is a rude word.

@@samleverton4273 , it can mean horny as well but mostly it is used as cool, awesome or something like that. So it can be rude but it depends on the context, here I would definitely say that the person is not horny but rather really enjoys the music.

@@tobiasstudtheol I hope, you are right ;-)

@@endhai, well it became an idiomatic expression some 20 years back. Some youths even don't know about the original meaning anymore.

Not horny, here, but "luxuriant."

Wtf?