Anna Rákóczy - Two Kinds of Infinity (2016) [Hi-Res]

Playing Bach on a solo flute, with the instrument's limitations and the fragility of its sound, seems to me in a sense to be the opposite of the perfection that defines Bach's music. But perhaps it is precisely between the instrument’s fragility and the music’s perfection that the arc is drawn — a rainbow-bridge between the divine and the human.

How does one play on flute a work written originally for cello? During my time with Covid, I played through the cello suites. I spent a great deal of time with the E-flat major Suite and it taught me to listen more deeply, to seek solutions and explore harmonic and melodic relationships in ways I had never experienced before. Gradually, I began performing it wherever people would listen — concert halls, churches, gardens, homeless shelters — and eventually I felt that my version of the E-Flat major suite had developed a voice of its own. I see this version more as a stage in an ongoing process — one that nonetheless embraces the full responsibility and stakes of transcription, allowing the work’s inner possibilities and features to emerge in a new light.

Anna Rákóczy, flute

Tracklist:
1-1 Anna Rákóczy - J.S. Bach: Suite No 4 in E-Flat Major, BWV 1010: Prelude [4:37]
1-2 Anna Rákóczy - J.S. Bach: Suite No 4 in E-Flat Major, BWV 1010: Allemande [4:51]
1-3 Anna Rákóczy - J.S. Bach: Suite No 4 in E-Flat Major, BWV 1010: Courante [4:16]
1-4 Anna Rákóczy - J.S. Bach: Suite No 4 in E-Flat Major, BWV 1010: Sarabande [5:37]
1-5 Anna Rákóczy - J.S. Bach: Suite No 4 in E-Flat Major, BWV 1010: Bourrée I – II – I [4:57]
1-6 Anna Rákóczy - J.S. Bach: Suite No 4 in E-Flat Major, BWV 1010: Gigue [2:45]
1-7 Anna Rákóczy - Dukay: Abandoned Path Toward The Misty Distance [24:14]