Title: superb
Review: This is a great performance of Bach's lovely secular cantata, made before Period Instrument mania set in. Here are modern instruments played with a good sense of Bach style, and excellent, light solo voices using vibrato but fully suited to the music. The gentlemen men are fine and the ladies are superb: the incomparable Helen Donath at the beginning of her career, and Elisabeth Speiser, a Swiss soprano who should have been better-known. Speiser, who reminds me of Arleen Auger, almost steals the show with the most beautiful rendition of "Sheep May Safely Graze" that I've heard. A warning to aficionados of 'period' style: the singers use almost no ornamentation. Rilling is at his best and the solo instruments are characterful, including that delightfully quacky oboe. An enjoyable bonus is the concerto, BWV 1053, in a rendition for oboe and strings. This is one of my favorite records; it never ceases to give pleasure.
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