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Antiquities - Music for viola and accordion

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Catalogue numberBIS-1229 CD
Release date2004-03-28
Discs1
Total time62:17

Take one of the world’s leading violists. Add an accordion player of rare talent and musical imagination and a generous helping of Baroque masterpieces. Season this with a mixture of spicy Renaissance harmonies and rhythms, and bring it all to a simmer in the warm acoustics of a 14th century church. The result is Antiquities, a disc which ranges from the meditative (as in Dowland’s Lachrymae) to the extrovert (J.S. Bach’s Italian Concerto). Always easy on the ear, this disc is nevertheless constantly thought-provoking: the unfamiliarity of the sonorities making us hear the music anew. “Is one actually allowed to play a Bach chorale like this?” is one question which may spring to mind. Another is: “Performed in this way, what does a motet by Machaut actually communicate?”

Among string players, Nobuko Imai is a household name. One of the viola’s foremost exponents, she has over the years recorded some of the most important repertoire for the instrument on BIS – always to great acclaim. A recent offering was BIS-CD-1211, containing music for viola by Max Reger, a disc which was awarded a Diapason d’Or as well as being singled out by the reviewer of the web site Classics Today.com who gave it an ‘unqualified "must-have" recommendation’.
Mie Miki will also be familiar to BIS followers, partly for Sonorities, her disc of contemporary works for the accordion (BIS-CD-1144). But her interpretations of music by Scarlatti, Rameau and other Baroque masters have also been much noticed. Musical partners of long standing, Nobuko Imai and Mie Miki have already collaborated on one BIS release, Into the Depth of Time (BIS-CD-929). About that disc, with contemporary works for the instruments, the critic of the German magazine Fono Forum wrote that the ‘magnificent duo opened up horizons previously unthought of’, remarking upon the masterful way the two musicians managed to ‘fuse together the sonorities of their individual instruments.’ That Nobuko Imai and Mie Miki on the present disc, in repertoire where we “know” exactly how it should sound, again offers us new horizons, is a testament to their great musicality and gift as chamber musicians.
 
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  Composer: Machaut, Guillaume de
01 Motet 23: Felix Virgo - Inviolata - Ad te suspiramus 03:26 $ 0.52 USD
 
 
  Composer: Machaut, Guillaume de
02 Rondeau 14: Ma fin est mon commencement 02:11 $ 0.33 USD
 
 
  Composer: Bach, Johann Sebastian
  Italienisches Konzert, BWV 971, for solo accordion 12:19
03 I. 03:38 $ 0.55 USD
04 II. Andante 05:33 $ 0.83 USD
05 III. Presto 03:08 $ 0.47 USD
 
 
  Composer: Isaac, Heinrich
06 Amis des que (Christe from Missa Chargé de Deul) 01:18 $ 0.20 USD
 
 
  Composer: Isaac, Heinrich
07 A fortune contrent (Qui tollis from Missa Chargé de Deul) 01:20 $ 0.20 USD
 
 
  Composer: Bach, Johann Sebastian
  Partita No.3, BWV 1006, for solo violin 17:36
08 I. Preludio 03:28 $ 0.52 USD
09 II. Loure 03:58 $ 0.60 USD
10 III. Gavotte en Rondeau 02:56 $ 0.44 USD
11 IV. Menuet I - Menuet II 04:03 $ 0.61 USD
12 V. Bourée 01:21 $ 0.20 USD
13 VI. Gigue 01:50 $ 0.28 USD
 
 
  Composer: Dowland, John
14 Lachrimae Antiquae 04:01 $ 0.60 USD
 
 
  Composer: Dowland, John
15 Can she excuse my wrongs 01:06 $ 0.17 USD
 
 
  Composer: Dowland, John
16 If my complaints 01:23 $ 0.21 USD
 
 
  Composer: Bach, Johann Sebastian
  Gamba Sonata No.1 in G major, BWV 1027 12:01
17 I. Adagio 03:50 $ 0.58 USD
18 II. Allegro mo non tanto 03:08 $ 0.47 USD
19 III. Andante 02:26 $ 0.37 USD
20 IV. Allegro moderato 02:37 $ 0.39 USD
 
 
  Composer: Bach, Johann Sebastian
21 Chorale Befiehl Du Deine Wege... (from St. Matthew Passion)
and Chorale arrangement on Herzlich tut mich verlangen...,
BWV 727
01:43 $ 0.26 USD
 
  Album total 62:17
ComposerBach, Johann Sebastian
Dowland, John
Isaac, Heinrich
Machaut, Guillaume de
AccordionMiki, Mie
Viola/violinImai, Nobuko

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