J.S. Bach & D. Shostakovich: Salvation: Vocal and Instrumental Music

This innovative concept album brings together two composers worlds. Centuries apart, but still intensely and closely connected: Johann Sebastian Bach and Dimitri Shostakovich. Shostakovich about Bach: : "Bach's influence is truly enormous. I play Bach every day. For us, Bach's legacy is an embodiment of flaming emotion, soulful humanity and true humanism, which stands in contrast to the dark world of raw evil and contempt for humanity.” Shostakovich played both volumes of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier already at the age of twelve. For him: "Every prelude and fugue by Bach can be played at any tempo, with or without any nuance, in any case it will be wonderful. That is how one must compose". The concept of Salvation, the healing and connecting power of music, shines through in the works presented here: arias from Bach Cantatas, a Bach Trio Sonata, two Preludes and Fugues by Shostakovich, as well as his Piano Trio Op. 8 and the Romances on Poems by Alexander Block. Soprano Dorothee Mields is one of the leading interpreters of 17th- and 18th-century music and is admired for her unique timbre and moving interpretations. Dorothee Mields regularly collaborates with the Collegium Vocale Gent, Orchestre des Champs- Élysées, Netherlands Bach Society, Freiburger Barockorchester, Bachakademie Stuttgart and many others. The period instrument G.A.P. Ensemble consists of Emilio Percan, violin, Oriol Aymat Fusté, violoncello, and Luca Quintavalle, harpsichord/fortepiano. They worked with artists like Viktoria Mullova, Daniel Hope, Cecilia Bartoli, Christophe Rousset, Fabio Biondi, Julia Lezhneva, Raffaella Milanesi and Hille Perl and performed at some of the most renowned concert halls in the world, for example Berliner Philharmonie, Teatro Colón Buenos Aires, Tokyo Opera City Center Hall and Palau de la Música Barcelona.

1: I. Adagio
2: II. Vivace
3: III. Largo
4: IV. Presto
5: Ich Bin in Mir Vergnügt
6: Ich Bin Vergnügt in Meinem Leiden
7: Prelude
8: Fugue
9: Welt, Deine Lust Ist Last
10: Komm in Mein Herzenshaus
11: Du Süßer Jesus-Name Du
12: Jesus Soll Mein Erstes Wort
13: So Glaubt Man Denn, Dass Die Musik Verführe?
14: Leit, O Gott, Durch Deine Liebe
15: Piano Trio No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 8, 'Poème'
16: Prelude
17: Fugue
18: Ophelia's Song
19: Gamayun, the Bird of Prophecy
20: We Were Together
21: The City Sleeps
22: The Storm
23: Secret Signs
24: Music

Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich, Johann Sebastian Bach

Number of Discs: 1

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