Artist: Cordelia Williams

Title: Bach & Pärt: Piano Works

Year Of Release: 2018

Label: SOMM Recordings

Genre: Classical

Quality: flac 24bits - 44.1kHz +booklet

Total Time: 01:03:03

Total Size: 486 mb



Tracklist

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01. Für Anna Maria

02. 2-Part Inventions: No. 1 in C Major, BWV 772

03. 2-Part Inventions: No. 4 in D Minor, BWV 775

04. 2-Part Inventions: No. 7 in E Minor, BWV 778

05. 2-Part Inventions: No. 8 in F Major, BWV 779

06. 2-Part Inventions: No. 10 in G Major, BWV 781

07. 2-Part Inventions: No. 13 in A Minor, BWV 784

08. 2-Part Inventions: No. 15 in B Minor, BWV 786

09. 2-Part Inventions: No. 14 in B-Flat Major, BWV 785

10. 2-Part Inventions: No. 12 in A Major, BWV 783

11. 2-Part Inventions: No. 11 in G Minor, BWV 782

12. 2-Part Inventions: No. 9 in F Minor, BWV 780

13. 2-Part Inventions: No. 6 in E Major, BWV 777

14. 2-Part Inventions: No. 5 in E-Flat Major, BWV 776

15. 2-Part Inventions: No. 3 in D Major, BWV 774

16. 2-Part Inventions: No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 773

17. Für Alina

18. 3-Part Inventions: No. 1 in C Major, BWV 787

19. 3-Part Inventions: No. 4 in D Minor, BWV 790

20. 3-Part Inventions: No. 7 in E Minor, BWV 793

21. 3-Part Inventions: No. 8 in F Major, BWV 794

22. 3-Part Inventions: No. 10 in G Major, BWV 796

23. 3-Part Inventions: No. 13 in A Minor, BWV 799

24. 3-Part Inventions: No. 15 in B Minor, BWV 801

25. 3-Part Inventions: No. 14 in B-Flat Major, BWV 800

26. 3-Part Inventions: No. 12 in A Major, BWV 798

27. 3-Part Inventions: No. 11 in G Minor, BWV 797

28. 3-Part Inventions: No. 9 in F Minor, BWV 795

29. 3-Part Inventions: No. 6 in E Major, BWV 792

30. 3-Part Inventions: No. 5 in E-Flat Major, BWV 791

31. 3-Part Inventions: No. 3 in D Major, BWV 789

32. 3-Part Inventions: No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 788

33. Variationen zur Gesundung von Arinuschka

34. Prelude in C Major, BWV 924



Somm Recordings and former BBC Young Musician Competition prize- winner Cordelia Williams present two sublime voices together for the first time on album in a poetic and probing coupling of the solo piano music of JS Bach musical laureate of 17th-century Protestantism and Arvo Pärt, principal voice of contemporary Holy Minimalism. Although a quarter of a millennia separates their births, both share a conviction that faith in God, as Williams notes in her introductory essay, is the foundation of the creation of music. This pioneering coupling of the two composers reveals a surprising latticework of connections in their constant, shared striving for economy and essence. Pärts signature chiming tintinnabuli style is beautifully evoked in three pieces designed to console and comfort their dedicatees: the tolling, melancholic profundity of Für Alina; the quietly majestic and moving Für Anna Maria and the limpid, liquid invention of Variationen zur Gesundung von Arinuschka. Composed for his 10-year-old son, Wilhelm Friedemann (himself later a composer of distinction), Bachs twin sets of 15 Two-part Inventions (BWV 772-86) and 15 Three-part Sinfonias (BWV 787-801) are much more than mere pedagogic primers. Williams finds in them a richness of technical design far beyond their apparent simplicity. Here, Williams reverts to Bachs original ordering of the pieces to chart a subtly revealing way through music as intimate as it is illuminating.