Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Evangelina Mascardi
Number of Discs: 2
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Arcana
Catalogue: A529
Release: 2022
Size: 2.12 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
CD 01
Suite in G Minor, BWV 995
01. I. Prélude
02. II. Allemande
03. III. Courante
04. IV. Sarabande
05. V. Gavotte I – Gavotte II en Rondeaux
06. VI. Gigue
Prelude, Fugue and Allegro in E-Flat Major, BWV 998
07. I. Prélude
08. II. Fuga
09. III. Allegro
10. Prelude in C Minor, BWV 999
Suite in E minor, BWV 996
11. I. Praeludio
12. II. Allemande
13. III. Courante
14. IV. Sarabande
15. V. Bourée
16. VI. Giga
CD 02
Suite in E Major, BWV 1006a
01. I. Prélude
02. II. Loure
03. III. Gavotte en Rondeaux
04. IV. Menuet I – Menuet II
05. V. Bourrée
06. VI. Gigue
Suite in C Minor, BWV 997
07. I. Prélude
08. II. Fuga
09. III. Sarabande
10. IV. Gigue
11. V. Double
12. Fugue in G Minor, BWV 1000
The seven compositions commonly called works for lute by Johann Sebastian Bach, despite more than a century of studies, do not seem to want to completely reveal the mystery of their birth, of their real instrumental destination and of Bach’s decidedly abstract concept of the instrument, the lute, which in its latest evolution continued after almost three centuries of glory to attract the attention of the highest musical lineage. The mystery did not distance the interpreters from these compositions, which Bach did not collect in a single cycle, as he did for the works for solo violin and cello, and indeed it has made them perhaps more stimulating, especially if we consider that in the turn of seventy years the lute was destined to disappear from the music scene. There are moments in which, to discover or define who we are, we must confront ourselves with the unknown. Evangelina Mascardi did it with this extraordinary engraving, which in addition to being the first Bach complete lute works recorded by a woman, writes a new important interpretative page, the result of artistic maturity, critical rethinking and original instrumental research.