"The mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kozena was moving from her first aria, “Buss und Reu” the expression of a believer hoping that her repentant tears will heal her beloved Jesus. Ms. Kozena’s plush singing was touched with sensuality, a quality made more explicit by the way she massaged the burdened, sore shoulders of Mr. Padmore’s Evangelist as she sang Bach’s yearning phrases."
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