Aksel! Arias by Bach, Handel & Mozart

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Aksel! Arias by Bach, Handel & Mozart
Aksel Rykkvin (treble), Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

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Release Date: Friday 30 September 2016

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Aksel Rykkvin is a Norwegian treble of astonishing talent, combining a rare musicality with a beautifully resonant voice. For his exuberant debut recording - featuring works by Mozart, Handel and JS Bach - he is accompanied by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under Nigel Short.

Aksel has quickly built a reputation as a rare talent, combining an intelligent musicality with a beautifully resonant treble voice. On his debut recording he is accompanied by the Orchestra of the Enlightenment under Nigel Short (leader of award-winning chamber choir Tenebrae), in a selection of arias by Mozart, Handel and JS Bach. Many of the arias performed are considered too technically demanding for boy singers in the present day - in particular Mozart's Exsultate Jubilate which was composed for the castrato Venunzio Rauzzini, and several of Bach's Cantatas which were written at a time when singers often maintained their treble voices until the ages of 16 or 17.

"Thirteen years old and a full-fledged artist. Norwegian treble Aksel Rykkvin is truly phenomenal. Not only has nature and thorough training given him a voice that is crystal clear, perfectly pitched and heavenly beautiful, but also a technique that allows him to do whatever he wants, coloratura and impeccable runs for instance. I am running out of superlatives, but I must add that the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment provide wonderful backing and there are important instrumental solos. Besides David Blackadder's three trumpet solos, Luise Buchberger plays a piccolo cello solo in Bach's Mein gläubiges Herze and Katharina Spreckelsen's oboe d'amore is heard in the beautiful Quia respexit from Bach's Magnificat. If you are going to buy just one more CD this year, make sure that it is this one." (Recording of the Month MusicWeb Oct 2016)

Tracks:

J S Bach:
Bist du bei mir, BWV508
Cantata BWV51 'Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen': Aria
Cantata BWV68 'Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt: Mein glaubiges Herze
Cantata BWV205 'Zerreißet. Zersprenge, zertrümmert die Gruft': Angenehmer Zephyrus (soprano aria)
St John Passion, BWV245: Ich folge dir gleichfalls

Handel:
Happy, oh thrice happy we (from Joshua)
Samson: Let the bright seraphim
Joshua: Oh! had I Jubal's lyre
Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne HWV74 'Eternal source of light divine'
Messiah: How beautiful are the feet
Messiah: Thou art gone up on high
Barbara! io ben lo so (from Alcina)
Lascia ch'io pianga (from Rinaldo)
Chi m'insegna il caro padre? (from Alcina)

Mozart:
Voi che sapete (from Le nozze di Figaro)
Non so più cosa son, cosa faccio (from Le nozze di Figaro)
Exsultate, jubilate, K165 - Alleluia