Catherine Laub: Coffee!!! - Bach’s 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 pre-caffeinated flute player has wound himself up to piccolo. The oboist starts as a tee-totaler before being slowly corrupted by the alcoholi