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Anne Akiko Meyers - Mirror In Mirror
Qobuz 24/96
A recommendation from Kalman Rubinson.
And a good one!
I looked for a multi-channel version, but didn't find one.
The American violinist Anne Akiko Meyers has always had a distinctive programming sense to go with her lush tone (sample the title work, Pärt's Spiegel im Spiegel, for a splendid example of the latter). But she has perhaps never been more original than on this, her 33rd album. Meyers calls the album one of her most personal projects, and the description holds up even though the recordings were made at several different times. Much of the music was written for her, and she has worked with all the composers or arrangers at one time or another. The sequence of events is unique, with the trio of minimalist works that open the album, all arranged specially for Meyers, not presented as parts of an abstract world of their own -- Glass and Pärt usually get programmed by themselves -- but as participants in a long tradition. They react to Ravel's Tzigane, here offered in a computer realization of its rarely heard original version for luthéal, a sort of piano-cimbalom hybrid. (This is worth the album price by itself.) And they now have inspired successors, such as Polish composer Jakub Ciupinski, who contributes a pair of works for violin and electronics. It's not clear how these were realized in performance, but presumably a visit to an event on Meyers' touring schedule would reveal the secrets; anyhow, they're fascinating and evocative pieces. Meyers' Glass and Pärt also address, and are addressed by, parallel styles closer to Romanticism from John Corigliano and Morten Lauridsen, whose O magnum mysterium fares beautifully in a violin-and-orchestra arrangement. The album is at once intelligently thought out, sensuously beautiful, and deeply spiritual. Highly recommended.
Qobuz 24/96
A recommendation from Kalman Rubinson.
And a good one!
I looked for a multi-channel version, but didn't find one.
The American violinist Anne Akiko Meyers has always had a distinctive programming sense to go with her lush tone (sample the title work, Pärt's Spiegel im Spiegel, for a splendid example of the latter). But she has perhaps never been more original than on this, her 33rd album. Meyers calls the album one of her most personal projects, and the description holds up even though the recordings were made at several different times. Much of the music was written for her, and she has worked with all the composers or arrangers at one time or another. The sequence of events is unique, with the trio of minimalist works that open the album, all arranged specially for Meyers, not presented as parts of an abstract world of their own -- Glass and Pärt usually get programmed by themselves -- but as participants in a long tradition. They react to Ravel's Tzigane, here offered in a computer realization of its rarely heard original version for luthéal, a sort of piano-cimbalom hybrid. (This is worth the album price by itself.) And they now have inspired successors, such as Polish composer Jakub Ciupinski, who contributes a pair of works for violin and electronics. It's not clear how these were realized in performance, but presumably a visit to an event on Meyers' touring schedule would reveal the secrets; anyhow, they're fascinating and evocative pieces. Meyers' Glass and Pärt also address, and are addressed by, parallel styles closer to Romanticism from John Corigliano and Morten Lauridsen, whose O magnum mysterium fares beautifully in a violin-and-orchestra arrangement. The album is at once intelligently thought out, sensuously beautiful, and deeply spiritual. Highly recommended.
Schumann - Dichterliebe & Liederkreis Op. 24
Mark Padmore & Kristian Bezuidenhout
Revisiting this album.
This is what I wrote before:
Less 'perfect' than Fischer-Dieskau and Moore, but I can sense more passion in both musicians (or is it because I saw them live?).
Anyway, a very good CD this.
My CD is signed by both musicians and remembers me of a wonderful evening in the Chamber Music Room in the Concertgebouw Brugge, some 2 years ago, where they performed 'Die schöne Müllerin' from Schubert.
This Schumann disc is equally nice.
Mark Padmore & Kristian Bezuidenhout
Revisiting this album.
This is what I wrote before:
Less 'perfect' than Fischer-Dieskau and Moore, but I can sense more passion in both musicians (or is it because I saw them live?).
Anyway, a very good CD this.
My CD is signed by both musicians and remembers me of a wonderful evening in the Chamber Music Room in the Concertgebouw Brugge, some 2 years ago, where they performed 'Die schöne Müllerin' from Schubert.
This Schumann disc is equally nice.
Bach, J S
Cantata BWV170 'Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust'
Cantata BWV54 'Widerstehe doch der Sünde'
Cantata BWV35 'Geist und Seele wird verwirret'
Concerto D'Amsterdam, Klaas Stok
Maarten Engeltjes, counter tenor
Vincent van Laar, organ
I adore these solo cantatas for counter tenor.
This is good, especially the organ.
Is it better than my old standard, Collegium Vocale, with Andreas Scholl? No!
Is it enjoyable? Highly.
Revisiting this album.
Barrière - Sonates pour le violoncelle avec la basse continue
Bruno Cocset
Les Basses Réunies
Just back from a concert with Bruno Cocset and Les Basses Réunies.
They played most pieces from their album 'Give Me your Hand'.
Cocset is a top musician.
The nuances he can put in his playing are fantastic.
This being said, I prefer this album to what we heard.
It has more soul than the celtic tunes.
Bruno Cocset
Les Basses Réunies
Just back from a concert with Bruno Cocset and Les Basses Réunies.
They played most pieces from their album 'Give Me your Hand'.
Cocset is a top musician.
The nuances he can put in his playing are fantastic.
This being said, I prefer this album to what we heard.
It has more soul than the celtic tunes.
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