Andreas Scholl - Bach & Brouwer: Canciones (CD)

The curiosity of the countertenor Andreas Scholl, one of the most recognized opera singers, is well known, with his taste for rare and precious musical items. We find him here with the lute player Edin Karamazov in 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 and the scholarly European tradition. These works marvelously echo the chorales, the Cello Suite and 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-color of Andreas Scholl, becomes the delicate setting for the hushed, modest expression of the different faces of love.

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. I Am a Poor Wayfaring Stranger
2. Down By the Salley Gardens
3. O Waly Waly
4. Brouwer : An Idea (Passacaglia for Eli)
5. Brouwer: Canciones Amatorias - Yo He de Enseñarte El Camino
6. Brouwer: Canciones Amatorias - Cantar de los Cantares
7. Brouwer: Canciones Amatorias - Balada de Un Día de Julio
8. Bach: Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 Prelude
9. Bach: Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 Allemande
10. Bach: Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 Courante
11. Bach: Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 Sarabande
12. Bach: Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 Minuet I ; II
13. Bach: Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 Gigue
14. Schlözel: Bist Du Bei Mir
15. Bach: Brunnquell Aller Güter, BWV 445
16. Bach: Jesu Bleibet Meine Freude, BWV 147
17. Brouwer: Nuevos Estudios Sencillos - Omaggio a Szymanowski