On connaît la curiosité du contre-ténor Andreas Scholl, l’un des artistes lyriques les plus récompensés, et son goût pour les objets musicaux rares et précieux. Il retrouve ici le luthiste Edin Karamazov pour matérialiser la rencontre entre La Havane et Leipzig, entre le Cuba contemporain et l’Allemagne baroque. Naviguant de l’un à l’autre, les deux musiciens tissent la toile d’une rêverie musicale dans laquelle Johann Sebastian Bach marche aux côtés du maître cubain Leo Brouwer, dont les œuvres métissées puisent tout à la fois dans le folklore, les racines créoles, la danse, l’héritage savant européen… Et qui font merveilleusement écho aux chorals ou à la Suite pour violoncelle, ou encore aux English Folk Songs, arrangées ici par Brouwer lui-même et dédiées au duo. L’instrumentation poétique et intimiste, avec un luth tout en transparence et le timbre de velours d’Andreas Scholl, se fait le délicat écrin de l’expression feutrée et pudique des différents visages de l’amour.
The curiosity of the countertenor Andreas Scholl, one of the most recompensed opera singers, is well known, with his taste for rare and precious musical items. We find him here with the lute player Edin Karamazov as 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, the scholarly European tradition, works that echo in marvellous manner the chorales, the Cello Suite, indeed 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-colour of Andreas Scholl, becomes the delicate setting for the hushed, modest expression of the different faces of love.
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released November 5, 2021
Johann Sebastian Bach
Leo Brouwer
Andreas Scholl: countertenor
Edin Karamazov: lute & guitar
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