Catherine Laub: Coffee Bachs Coffee Cantata Re Imagined ( Erato Ensemble)

Erato Ensemble: Catherine Laub, soprano Jeff Pelletier, flute Lauris Davis, oboe Julie Begg, clarinet Adrian Verdejo, guitar This arrangement of J. S. Bach s famous soprano aria from his Coffee Cantata plays with the idea of acceptable addictions. The aria begins before the soprano has had her first cup of morning cof fee, so she grumbles down the octave while the precaffeinated flute player has wound himself up to piccolo. The oboist starts as a teetotaler before being slowly corrupted by the alcoholi