J.S. Bach / Feuersinger/ Capricornus Consort - Ich Bin VergnugtIch bin vergngt (I am content) is the title of the new album by soprano Miriam Feuersinger. It refers to Johann Sebastian Bach's cantata "Ich bin vergngt mit meinem Glcke" BWV 84, but it also corresponds entirely to the feelings of the singer, who is fulfilling a long cherished wish of her heart with this programme: On this release, the proven Bach specialist presents the three most beautiful cantatas written by Johann Sebastian Bach for solo soprano.

+ Krzysztof Warlikowski delves the innermost depths of the human psyche and chooses to tackle "Lulu" as a deeply moving requiem 'to the memory of an angel'

Almost none of the versions of the songs featured here have been on any previous Ace CD

fusing the full dramatic range of post-rock dynamics to Korean folk roots to create an exhilarating

So you sense intimately how timeless dance is and how similar are the emotions aroused by the dances of quite different times and genres

yet end up separated and subject to their offspring's selfish whims

The songs are stories infused with colors and rhythms from Brazil

while continuing to develop the horn's expressive potential

Steve Bisley

Whilst some of the song settings centre on sensuality

an instrument much in use during the Medieval

yet in the usual dark

newly arranged by Maurice Seezer and Gavin Friday