Artist: Lina Tur Bonet and Dani Espasa
Title: Bach & Handel: An Imaginary Meeting
Year Of Release: 2019
Label: Aparté
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (image + .cue, log, booklet)
Total Time: 1:10:12
Total Size: 451 MB
Tracklist:01 Sonata No. 4 in C Minor, BWV 1017: I. Largo 04:22
02 Sonata No. 4 in C Minor, BWV 1017: II. Allegro 04:30
03 Sonata No. 4 in C Minor, BWV 1017: III. Adagio 03:28
04 Sonata No. 4 in C Minor, BWV 1017: IV. Allegro 04:42
05 Sonata in D Major, HWV 371: I. Affettuoso 03:47
06 Sonata in D Major, HWV 371: II. Allegro 02:41
07 Sonata in D Major, HWV 371: III. Larghetto 02:54
08 Sonata in D Major, HWV 371: IV. Allegro 03:42
09 Sonata No. 5 in F Minor, BWV 1018: I. [Largo] 07:43
10 Sonata No. 5 in F Minor, BWV 1018: II. Allegro 04:37
11 Sonata No. 5 in F Minor, BWV 1018: III. Adagio 03:16
12 Sonata No. 5 in F Minor, BWV 1018: IV. Vivace 02:36
13 Sonata in D Minor, HWV 359a: I. Grave 02:25
14 Sonata in D Minor, HWV 359a: II. Allegro 01:44
15 Sonata in D Minor, HWV 359a: III. Adagio 01:11
16 Sonata in D Minor, HWV 359a: IV. Allegro 02:44
17 Sonata No. 6 in G Major, BWV 1019: I. Allegro 03:33
18 Sonata No. 6 in G Major, BWV 1019: II. Largo 01:40
19 Sonata No. 6 in G Major, BWV 1019: III. Allegro 04:45
20 Sonata No. 6 in G Major, BWV 1019: IV. Adagio 03:43
21 Sonata No. 6 in G Major, BWV 1019: V. Allegro 03:35
This record is about reparation. History has not let two extraordinary composers meet each other. Georg Friedrich Haendel and Johann Sebastian Bach came to the world in 1785, one month apart. Twice, they failed to meet each other, and never again their life paths happened to come across, following parallel ways all along. This album is, thus, dedicated to this failure.
Lina Tur Bonet and Dani Espasa offer here a record that reflects multiple questions, engaging a critical dialogue. If Bach and Haendel's sonatas are facing each other, it is mostly their voices that echo to one another. By chosing these works, Lina Tur Bonet and Dani Espasa recreate, for an instant, the encounter of the two German composers, whose existences suddenly merge into one. This is the exact meaning of the matter of music, being able to suspend the time for a moment by giving birth to something that has never been before.
Lina Tur Bonet and Dani Espasa prove to be true magicians in this recording, and much as their exceptional reinterpretation reveals the whole deepness and closeness that these works and their composers share.
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