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This winter, celebrated violinist Lara St. John and Marie-Pierre Langlamet, principal harpist of the Berlin Philharmonic, present an album of J.S. Bach sonatas offering a new perspective and performed on violin and harp. The album will be released as an iTunes digital exclusive on January 17, 2012, with a wide release to all retailers on Valentine’s Day, February 14, 2012.
Always a thought-provoking musician, St. John raises the question of authenticity and performance practice on this new disc. Bach was a prolific composer, but also an inveterate arranger of his own work and that of others. The adaptability of this music, its capacity to be reinterpreted in new contexts, by different instruments, is perhaps its most authentic quality. It is in this spirit that the pieces are performed here with violin and harp. What is the impact on the listener when hearing familiar pieces with new sounds?
St. John shares the inspiration behind this recording: “I have had a lifelong relationship with Bach’s solo instrumental works, from when I was four years old and first performed the double concerto with my brother, to my first E Major Partita movements a few years later. As a Canadian, I grew up with the omnipresent Glenn Gould. Oddly, as a pre-teen, I also developed an obsession with Bach’s organ works.”
Always a thought-provoking musician, St. John raises the question of authenticity and performance practice on this new disc. Bach was a prolific composer, but also an inveterate arranger of his own work and that of others. The adaptability of this music, its capacity to be reinterpreted in new contexts, by different instruments, is perhaps its most authentic quality. It is in this spirit that the pieces are performed here with violin and harp. What is the impact on the listener when hearing familiar pieces with new sounds?
St. John shares the inspiration behind this recording: “I have had a lifelong relationship with Bach’s solo instrumental works, from when I was four years old and first performed the double concerto with my brother, to my first E Major Partita movements a few years later. As a Canadian, I grew up with the omnipresent Glenn Gould. Oddly, as a pre-teen, I also developed an obsession with Bach’s organ works.”
contents:
Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Keyboard in B minor, BWV 1014
Sonata No. 3 for Violin and Keyboard in E major, BWV 1016
Sonata for Violin and Keyboard in G minor, BWV 1020
Sonata for Flute and Keyboard in B minor, BWV 1030
Siciliana from Sonata for Flute and Harpsichord in E-flat major, BWV 1031
Lara St.John, violin
Marie-Pierre Langlamet, harp
Thank you very much, dear Bibixy.
RispondiEliminaThank you dear Bibixy. Last day, I speak with The Maestro Bach, and he say to me : " Arrangement, yes. Why not, but with quality..." Yes it is with this beautiful record. Best regards.
RispondiEliminaMaestro Bach did lots of arrangements, too!
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What a wonderful sound, such tenderness, such sweetness. Thank you very, very much dear Bibixy.
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