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Listeners' mileage may vary with this release by Swedish violinist Cecilia Zilliacus and vocalist Lena Willemark. Sample one of the tracks containing the latter, perhaps the chorale Wo soll ich fliehen hin : it's a fair bet that you'll either love the voice or be sufficiently put off to forget the whole thing. What you have here is Bach used as a stimulus for further creative activity, plus contemporary works in which Bach's music plays a direct role. As the track list indicates, the performance of the Bach Partita No. 2 for solo violin in D minor, BWV 1004, is interspersed with chorale melodies sung by Willemark. This idea is based on the research of German musicologist Helga Thoene, who claims that the sonata contains hidden chorale melodies with a programmatic function: that of memorializing Bach's deceased first wife, Maria Barbara. You might or might not accept this theory: it involves numerological manipulation of the kind that never seems to stick when it comes to Bach. But there's something haunting about the way the chorales are woven into the great chaconne at the sonata's end, and about the execution of the idea in general here. Bach also appears in the Sonata for solo violin by Svante Henryson and the title work by Sven-David Sandström, the latter set to a text (and broken-up sounds from it) by Danish poet Maria Wine. This work is a bit difficult to describe, but "dull" would not be accurate. It has a ritualistic quality in which the voice and the violin stand in different relationships that involve not only Bach, but the Swedish polska folk dance. That's as close as the album gets to living up to its title, but of course Bach's piece is a suite of dances, and the Henryson work also has dance elements. An intriguing experiment at the very least.
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Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Cecilia Zilliacus, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
2016 BIS 2016 (P) BIS
Johannes Crüger, Composer - Lena Willemark, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
2016 BIS 2016 (P) BIS
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Cecilia Zilliacus, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
2016 BIS 2016 (P) BIS
Lena Willemark, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jacob Regnart, Composer
2016 BIS 2016 (P) BIS
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Cecilia Zilliacus, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
2016 BIS 2016 (P) BIS
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Cecilia Zilliacus, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
2016 BIS 2016 (P) BIS
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Anonymous, Lyricist - Lena Willemark, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Helga Thoene, Arranger - Cecilia Zilliacus, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
2016 BIS 2016 (P) BIS
Sonata for Solo Violin (Svante Henryson)
SVANTE HENRYSON, Composer - Cecilia Zilliacus, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
2016 BIS 2016 (P) BIS
SVANTE HENRYSON, Composer - Cecilia Zilliacus, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
2016 BIS 2016 (P) BIS
SVANTE HENRYSON, Composer - Cecilia Zilliacus, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
2016 BIS 2016 (P) BIS
SVANTE HENRYSON, Composer - Cecilia Zilliacus, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
2016 BIS 2016 (P) BIS
SVANTE HENRYSON, Composer - Cecilia Zilliacus, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
2016 BIS 2016 (P) BIS
SVANTE HENRYSON, Composer - Cecilia Zilliacus, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
2016 BIS 2016 (P) BIS
SVANTE HENRYSON, Composer - Cecilia Zilliacus, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
2016 BIS 2016 (P) BIS
Dansa (Sven David Sandstrom)
Lena Willemark, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sven-David Sandström, Composer - Cecilia Zilliacus, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Maria Wine, Lyricist
2016 BIS 2016 (P) BIS
Lena Willemark, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sven-David Sandström, Composer - Cecilia Zilliacus, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Maria Wine, Lyricist
2016 BIS 2016 (P) BIS
Lena Willemark, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sven-David Sandström, Composer - Cecilia Zilliacus, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Maria Wine, Lyricist
2016 BIS 2016 (P) BIS
Lena Willemark, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sven-David Sandström, Composer - Cecilia Zilliacus, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Maria Wine, Lyricist
2016 BIS 2016 (P) BIS
Lena Willemark, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sven-David Sandström, Composer - Cecilia Zilliacus, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Maria Wine, Lyricist
2016 BIS 2016 (P) BIS
Lena Willemark, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sven-David Sandström, Composer - Cecilia Zilliacus, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Maria Wine, Lyricist
2016 BIS 2016 (P) BIS
Lena Willemark, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sven-David Sandström, Composer - Cecilia Zilliacus, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Maria Wine, Lyricist
2016 BIS 2016 (P) BIS
Album review
Listeners' mileage may vary with this release by Swedish violinist Cecilia Zilliacus and vocalist Lena Willemark. Sample one of the tracks containing the latter, perhaps the chorale Wo soll ich fliehen hin : it's a fair bet that you'll either love the voice or be sufficiently put off to forget the whole thing. What you have here is Bach used as a stimulus for further creative activity, plus contemporary works in which Bach's music plays a direct role. As the track list indicates, the performance of the Bach Partita No. 2 for solo violin in D minor, BWV 1004, is interspersed with chorale melodies sung by Willemark. This idea is based on the research of German musicologist Helga Thoene, who claims that the sonata contains hidden chorale melodies with a programmatic function: that of memorializing Bach's deceased first wife, Maria Barbara. You might or might not accept this theory: it involves numerological manipulation of the kind that never seems to stick when it comes to Bach. But there's something haunting about the way the chorales are woven into the great chaconne at the sonata's end, and about the execution of the idea in general here. Bach also appears in the Sonata for solo violin by Svante Henryson and the title work by Sven-David Sandström, the latter set to a text (and broken-up sounds from it) by Danish poet Maria Wine. This work is a bit difficult to describe, but "dull" would not be accurate. It has a ritualistic quality in which the voice and the violin stand in different relationships that involve not only Bach, but the Swedish polska folk dance. That's as close as the album gets to living up to its title, but of course Bach's piece is a suite of dances, and the Henryson work also has dance elements. An intriguing experiment at the very least.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 21 track(s)
- Total length: 01:17:25
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Lena Willemark Cecilia Zilliacus
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: BIS
- Genre: Classical
2016 BIS 2016 BIS
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