Various Artists - Variations - SUPER-AUDIO CD [Super Audio CD (SACD)]

Danae Dörken wants to show with her production that music is a place where all people are lifted to the same level - no matter what their origin or cultural background is. The focus is on the connecting element of music between all possible cultures and the folkloristic character of the works, emphasizing the peculiarities of each culture that makes it unique. Called Inchthe discovery of the yearInch by classical music magazine crescendo and Inchon her way to the very topInch by Concerti magazine, German-Greek pianist Danae Dörken is, at age twenty-six, among the elite of internationally acclaimed artists of a new generation, electrifying audiences and peer musicians alike with her stunning technical skills, exceptional charisma and great profundity of her musical thinking.

Soirée captures the atmosphere of informal, domestic music making. Czech star mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená offers an intimate and highly personal collection of international songs together with an outstanding group of musical friends, including Sir Simon Rattle, who makes his recording debut as a pianist. The German lied is represented by Brahms (Two Songs, Op. 91 and Five Ophelia Songs, WoO 22) and Strauss (Morgen!), the French chanson by Chausson (Chanson perpétuelle) and Ravel (Chansons madécasses), and 20th-century avant-gardism with Stravinsky's Three Songs from William Shakespeare. In between these explorations, Kožená revisits her musical roots with a selection of Dvorák songs, arranged by Duncan Ward, as well as Janácek's Nursery Rhymes. Soirée is the second of Magdalena Kožená's exclusive collaboration with PENTATONE, after having presented the baroque cantatas recital album Il giardino dei sospiri in 2019. Details 1. Chanson Perpétuelle, Op. 37 00 07 20 2. No. 1. MÁ Písen Zas Mi Láskou ZNÍ (My Song Resounds with Love) 00 02 42 3. No. 6. Širokými Rukávy (Wide Sleeves) 00 01 24 4. Cypriše (Cypresses), B. 11 No. 11. MÉ Srdce Casto (My Heart Is Often in Pain) (Arr. D. Ward for Voice, Flute, Clarinet, String Quartet and Piano) 00 03 20 5. No. 2. Žalo Dievca (The Moweress) 00 01 53 6. No. 4. Když Mne Stará Matka (When My Mother Taught Me) 00 02 40 7. No. 5. Struna Naladena (The Strings Are Tuned) 00 01 05 8. No. 1. Dobrú Noc, MÁ Milá (Good-Night, My Darling) 00 03 19 9. No. 1. Gestillte Sehnsucht (Longing Eased) 00 06 20 10. No. 2. Geistliches Wiegenlied (Sacred Lullaby) 00 05 05 11. No. 1. Musick to Heare 00 02 50 12. No. 2. Full Fadom Five 00 01 52 13. No. 3. When Dasies Pied 00 02 05 14. No. 1. Nahandove 00 06 10 15. No. 2. Aoua! 00 04 03 16. No. 3. Il Est Doux 00 04 11 17. No. 1. Wie Erkenn' Ich Dein Treulieb 00 00 58

Holland Baroque presents Minne, an improvised program inspired by the love poetry of medieval mystic Hadewijch from Brabant. Hadewijch was a 13th-century beguine who wrote an impressive oeuvre of love poetry, providing an original, female perspective on medieval life. For this project, Holland Baroque works together with Bastarda Trio, a folk-jazz group combining the unique sonorities of clarinet, cello and contrabass clarinet. Inspired by medieval poetry, the result is a playful, passionate, truly contemporary album.