Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach, Leo Brouwer, Gottfried Heinrich Schlözel
Performer: Andreas Scholl, Edin Karamazov
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Aparté
Catalogue: AP263
Release: 2021
Size: 0.97 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
trad.: English Folk Songs
01. I Am a Poor Wayfaring Stranger (Arr. Leo Brouwer)
02. Down by the Salley Gardens (Arr. Leo Brouwer)
03. O Waly Waly
04. Brouwer: An Idea (Passacaglia for Eli)
Brouwer: Canciones Amatorias
05. Yo he de enseñarte el camino
06. El Cantar de los Cantares
07. Balada de un día de Julio
Bach: Cello Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV1007
08. I. Prelude (Arr. Edin Karamazov)
09. II. Allemande (Arr. Edin Karamazov)
10. III. Courante (Arr. Edin Karamazov)
11. IV. Sarabande (Arr. Edin Karamazov)
12. V. Minuet I / II (Arr. Edin Karamazov)
13. VI. Gigue (Arr. Edin Karamazov)
14. Schlözel: Diomedes oder die triumphierende Unschuld: Bist du bei mir
15. Bach: Brunnquell aller Güter, BWV445
16. Bach: Jesu, bleibet meine Freude (from Cantata BWV147 ‘Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben’)
Brouwer: Nuevos estudios sencillos
17. IX. Omaggio a Szymanowski
The curiosity of the countertenor Andreas Scholl, one of the most recompensed opera singers, is well known, with his taste for rare and precious musical items. We find him here with the lute player Edin Karamazov as the embodiment of an encounter between Havana and Leipzig, between contemporary Cuba and baroque Germany.
Navigating from the one to the other, the two musicians weave the fabric of a musical reverie in which Johann Sebastian Bach walks alongside the Cuban master Leo Brouwer, whose crossover works draw at once from folklore, creole roots, dance, the scholarly European tradition, works that echo in marvellous manner the chorales, the Cello Suite, indeed the English Folk Songs, arranged here by Brouwer himself and dedicated to the duet.
The poetic, intimate instrumentation, with an utterly limpid lute and the velvet tone-colour of Andreas Scholl, becomes the delicate setting for the hushed, modest expression of the different faces of love.