Maude Gratton - Trinitatis - Bach Cantatas - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Bent Sørensen's music can feel like the product of a dream, at once vague and precise, present and intangible. With Rosenblad and Pantomime, the recording of Sørensen's trilogy Papillons is complete. This is music filled with the ebb and flow of fear, hope and nostalgia and unified by common musical material through the same anchoring piano part across it's movements. All works including the Fantasia Appassionata for solo piano are written for Katrine Gislinge, Sørensen's wife and one of the most significant pianists in Scandinavia, here accompanied by Esbjerg Ensemble and the Stenhammar Quartet. All of the pieces on this are premiere recordings, and are being released at the same time that Sørensen will receive the prestigious Grawemeyer Award.

J.S. Bach - Cantatas [COMPACT DISCS] Digipack Packaging date 06/12/2012

Following his recording of J.S. Bach's solo cantatas for alto BWV 35 and 170 (issued by Outhere in 2009), and building on the success of that - still a benchmark even today - countertenor Damien Guillon has continued his work of research and interpretation, devoting his second album to the Cantata BWV 169 for alto solo, and to the famous BWV 82 Ich habe genug; though better known in it's 1727 version for bass, from 1735 onwards it was also performed by an alto voice. To complement this cantata programme, organist Maude Gratton performs Bach's Prelude and Fugue BWV 543, as well as the chorales Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr, BWV 662, BWV 663 & BWV 664.