Rachel Podger - Mozart: Complete Sonatas for Keyboard & Violin - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Rachel Podger - Complete Violin Sonatas BWV 1014-19 1021 & 1023 [COMPACT DISCS] date 01/09/2001

Limited Edition Vinyl LP album. Heavyweight, 180g, Lucky Dip Eco-Vinyl. Each one is unique. No two LPs will be the same. Limited run of only 300. Includes lyric QR. Known for her magical, evocative voice and an ability to interpret and inhabit a range of styles with a mix of power and feeling, Heather Findlay is one of the finest vocalists working in music today. Cutting her music industry teeth at just 19 with rock band Mostly Autumn, for the 13 years that followed, she earned her stripes and learned her craft well, both in the studio and on stages across the world. With 2016's The Illusion's Reckoning project with transatlantic symphonic rock super ensemble Mantra Vega, followed by Winter album, 'I Am Snow' with her own Heather Findlay band, the path towards her debut studio album Wild White Horses was a busy one. The album was released in 2019, and produced by Thunder's Luke Morley, to great acclaim. In 2020 her live album repertoire grew to include the double Live Album Live White Horses, chronicling her Wild White Horses tour of 2019/2020, from where it all started in Nashville TN all the way across UK, Europe and back home again. In 2021 Findlay produced the second album of Odin Dragonfly, her long time duo with Mostly Autumn's Angela Gordon, titled Sirens. Following the of Sirens, Findlay went on to write, illustrate and two books Raising Violet and The Orelium. Now back in the producer's seat, she brings to life a whole new and much anticipated solo studio album offering, Wildflower.

The Baroque dream team of Rachel Podger and Kristian Bezuidenhout interpret the astonishing music of C.P.E. Bach's Violin Sonatas in C Minor, B Minor, D Major and G Minor. The two early sonatas here from the 1730s resemble the older style of his father. Listening to these works, you can imagine J.S. Bach glancing over Emanuel's shoulders while he wrote them as a teenager at home in Leipzig. The later sonatas, written 30 to 50 years later, reveal an emancipated composer whose developed musical language embodies the 'Empfindsamer Stil', the directly emotional and rhetorical style characteristic of northern-German music of the time. Rachel Podger InchIt was wonderful to delve into the specific musical world that belongs to C.P.E. Bach for this recording with Kris. These violin sonatas are (quite unfortunately!) largely overshadowed by the classical Viennese sonatas of Mozart and Beethoven. Part of his genius is that he is full of surprises and unpredictable turns, and this was hugely enjoyable for me during the musical partnership with the wonderful Kristian Bezuidenhout.Inch