Cordelia Williams - Bach & Pärt: Piano Works (2018) [Hi-Res]

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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.

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