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.

Tracklist:

I Am a Poor Wayfaring Stranger
Down By the Salley Gardens
O Waly Waly
Brouwer : An Idea (Passacaglia for Eli)
Brouwer: Canciones Amatorias - Yo He de EnseÃ±arte El Camino
Brouwer: Canciones Amatorias - Cantar de los Cantares
Brouwer: Canciones Amatorias - Balada de Un DÃa de Julio
Bach: Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 Prelude
Bach: Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 Allemande
Bach: Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 Courante
Bach: Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 Sarabande
Bach: Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 Minuet I ; II
Bach: Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 Gigue
SchlÃ¶zel: Bist Du Bei Mir
Bach: Brunnquell Aller GÃ¼ter, BWV 445
Bach: Jesu Bleibet Meine Freude, BWV 147
Brouwer: Nuevos Estudios Sencillos - Omaggio a Szymanowski

UPC: 5051083169288
Label: Aparte
Release Date: 11.12.21
Format: CD

Andreas Scholl - Bach & Brouwer: Canciones (CD)