Kolja Blacher | Frank Arnold
Bach
- Type CD
- Label Phil.Harmonie
- UPC 4250317416070
- Catalog number PHIL 06007
- Release date 20 May 2022
About the album
The purpose of this CD is to draw attention to the link between the ideas that informed the poets of the baroque era and the music of J.S. Bach, and so inspire listeners to explore the interaction of music and text in greater depth.
Those who do so will discover a language that is not just powerful, but playful, and keenly felt. Kolja Blacher plays the 'Tritton' Stradivarius violin from 1730. In April of 2007 his recording of sonatas by Shostakovich and Mieczyslaw Weinberg (with partner Jasha Nemtsov at the piano) on the Hänssler label was awarded the German Record Critics’ Award and in 2006 his recording of the Stravinsky and Alban Berg concertos with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Claudio Abbado likewise won the German Record Critics’ Award as well as the Diapason d’Or. The German magazine Fono Forum wrote: “This live recording once again testifies to his standing as a world-class violin soloist."
Frank Arnold, born in Berlin, studied philosophy and drama at the Free University, Berlin and acting at the Academy of Arts in Berlin. He has performed on stages in Berlin, Heidelberg and Düsseldorf and worked as theatre director and dramatic advisor in Munich, Berlin, Zurich and Vienna. He has also put on several operas and was visiting lecturer at Trinity College, Dublin. Thanks to dozens of radio and television programmes as well as radio plays and recorded readings, his voice has become one of the most well-known in Germany.
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11Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004 (with recitation of German Baroque poems) I. Allemande - GryphiusVanitas! Vanitatum Vanitas!
06:21 -
12Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004 (with recitation of German Baroque poems) II. Courante - GryphiusWie ein zerschmettert Schiff
02:29 -
13Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004 (with recitation of German Baroque poems) III. Sarabande - GryphiusAbend
05:41 -
14Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004 (with recitation of German Baroque poems) GryphiuVanitas Mundi
01:56 -
15Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004 (with recitation of German Baroque poems) IV. Gigue - GryphiusEbenbild unseres LebensAuf das gewohnliche Konigsspiel
05:39 -
16Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004 (with recitation of German Baroque poems) GryphiusLetzte Rede eines Gelehrten aus seinem Grabe
04:02 -
17Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004 (with recitation of German Baroque poems) V. Ciaccona
16:04 -
18Violin Partita No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006 (with recitation of German Baroque poems) I. Preludio - GrimmelshausenKomm Trost der Nacht
04:11 -
19Violin Partita No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006 (with recitation of German Baroque poems) HoffmannswaldauDie Wollust
02:27 -
110Violin Partita No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006 (with recitation of German Baroque poems) II. Loure - HoffmannswaldauBeschreibung vollkommener Schonheit
05:21 -
111Violin Partita No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006 (with recitation of German Baroque poems) III. Gavotte en rondeau - HoffmannswaldauErmahnung zur Vergnugung
03:34 -
112Violin Partita No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006 (with recitation of German Baroque poems) IV. Menuet I - V. Menuet II - FlemingWie er wolle gekusset seyn
05:37 -
113Violin Partita No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006 (with recitation of German Baroque poems) VI. Bourree - AnonymousAllegorisches Sonett
02:37 -
114Violin Partita No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006 (with recitation of German Baroque poems) VII. Gigue - HoffmannswaldauAn Lauretten
03:17