Nina Reddig - De Profundis (2019)

De profundis - Béla Bartók's sonata for violin solo, his Romanian dances and Johann Sebastian Bach's Ciaccona are expressions of deepest human sensation and existential experience. Because these masterpieces reflect for her the universal, the authoritative, the true, Nina Reddig assembles her on her program album "De Profundis". But Bartók and Bach are not alone in emotional extremes with their solo pieces, but also at the limits of geigeric possibilities. Nina Reddig plays the works technically masterfully and makes them expressive, clear, radical and compelling. In the recording of the award-winning soloist and enthusiastic chamber musician, concertist and teacher at the University of the Arts Bremen, the musical relationships between them are revealed, so that Bach can be heard and experienced from Bartók and both works illuminate each other. It is also clear that in his solo sonata in 1944 Bartók continued the musical and themes from the folklore of his homeland. About thirty years earlier, he had developed the piano suite "Romanian Dances" from folk melodies, which Nina Reddig and Miriam Overlach first worked on and recorded for violin and harp.