Bach & Brouwer: Canciones Andreas Scholl & Edin Karamazov

• Traditional: English Folk Songs:
• 1 Traditional: English Folk Songs: I Am a Poor Wayfaring Stranger (Arr. Leo Brouwer) 04:56
• 2 Traditional: English Folk Songs: Down by the Salley Gardens (Arr. Leo Brouwer) 03:07
• 3 Traditional: English Folk Songs: O Waly Waly 04:17
• Leo Brouwer (b. 1939):
• 4 Brouwer: An Idea (Passacaglia for Eli) 02:35
• Canciones Amatorias:
• 5 Brouwer: Canciones Amatorias: Yo he de enseñarte el camino 05:12
• 6 Brouwer: Canciones Amatorias: El Cantar de los Cantares 05:29
• 7 Brouwer: Canciones Amatorias: Balada de un día de Julio 05:42
• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750): Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007:
• 8 Bach: Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: I. Prelude (Arr. Edin Karamazov) 02:58
• 9 Bach: Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: II. Allemande (Arr. Edin Karamazov) 02:22
• 10 Bach: Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: III. Courante (Arr. Edin Karamazov) 01:27
• 11 Bach: Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: IV. Sarabande (Arr. Edin Karamazov) 01:21
• 12 Bach: Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: V. Minuet I/II (Arr. Edin Karamazov) 02:12
• 13 Bach: Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: VI. Gigue (Arr. Edin Karamazov) 01:04
• Gottfried Heinrich Schlözel:
• 14 Schlözel: Diomedes oder die triumphierende Unschuld: Bist du bei mir 03:08
• Johann Sebastian Bach:
• 15 Bach: Brunnquell aller Güter, BWV 445 02:09
• 16 Bach: Jesus bleibet meine Freude, BWV 147 03:19
• Leo Brouwer: Nuevos estudios sencillos:
• 17 Brouwer: Nuevos estudios sencillos: IX. Omaggio a Szymanowski 02:51
• Total Runtime 54:09

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The curiosity of the countertenor Andreas Scholl, one of the most recognized opera singers, is well known, with his taste for rare and precious musical items. We find him here with the lute player Edin Karamazov in the embodiment of an encounter between Havana and Leipzig, between contemporary Cuba and baroque Germany. Navigating from the one to the other, the two musicians weave the fabric of a musical reverie in which Johann Sebastian Bach walks alongside the Cuban master Leo Brouwer, whose crossover works draw at once from folklore, creole roots, dance and the scholarly European tradition. These works marvelously echo the chorales, the Cello Suite and the English Folk Songs, arranged here by Brouwer himself, and dedicated to the duet. The poetic, intimate instrumentation, with an utterly limpid lute and the velvet tone-color of Andreas Scholl, becomes the delicate setting for the hushed, modest expression of the different faces of love.

Andreas Scholl, countertenor
Edin Karamazov, lute, guitar

Andreas Scholl
Born in Germany, Andreas Scholl's early musical training was with the Kiedricher Chorbuben choir. He later studied under Richard Levitt and René Jacobs at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. He has won numerous awards and prizes, including the prestigious ECHO Award for his composition for Deutsche Grammophon's audio-book of Hans Christian Andersen's The Emperor's New Clothes and The Nightingale.

Andreas has released a series of extraordinary solo recordings: the most recent being Wanderer – a disc of German Lied in partnership with pianist Tamar Halperin. Other notable releases include Bach cantatas with kammerorchesterbasel; O Solitude – an all-Purcell album with Accademia Bizantina, which won the 2012 BBC Music Magazine award; Arias for Senesino, Heroes – a disc of arias by Handel, Mozart, Hasse and Gluck; Robert Dowland's A Musicall Banquet; Vivaldi Motets with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra; and Arcadia – a collection of rare and unpublished cantatas by composers from Rome’s Arcadian Circle. All of these recordings are released on Decca.

Andreas’ recorded work also includes Handel’s Solomon and Saul with Paul McCreesh for Deutsche Gramophon, and for Harmonia Mundi, Vivaldi Stabat Mater; Caldara's Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo; and Crystal Tears – lute and consort songs by John Dowland. Andreas’ DVD releases include productions of Giulio Cesare (for both Decca and Harmonia Mundi), Rodelinda (Warner) and Partenope (Decca).

Operatic roles include the title role in Giulio Cesare at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and the 2012 Salzburger Festspiele (opposite Cecilia Bartoli) and Bertarido (Rodelinda) at Glyndebourne Festival Opera and the Metropolitan Opera (opposite Renée Fleming). His concert performances have included appearances with Berliner Philharmoniker, New York Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Dresdner Philharmonie, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Freiburger Barockorchester, the Academy of Ancient Music and at the 2005 Last Night of the Proms – the first counter-tenor ever to have been invited.

Edin Karamazov
Edin's thrilling virtuoso performances on the lute and guitar have garnered rave reviews and unprecedented critical acclaim in Europe and America. As a soloist he has performed and recorded with leading international early music ensembles and artists including the Hilliard Ensemble, Hesperion XX, Andreas Scholl as well as Sting.

A consummate interpreter and master technician on numerous early and contemporary stringed instruments and outstanding recital artist Edin Karamazov has appeared at Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Wigmore Hall, Berlin Philharmonie, Berlin Konzerthaus, Konzerthaus Vienna, Herkulessaal Munich as well as at festivals such as Schleswig-Holstein, Rheingau, Mosel, Lower Saxony, Istanbul Bach, Espinho, among others.

Edin Karamazov plays several plucked instruments of various cultures and epoches and remains committed to exploring the use of lutes in modern music and contemporary improvisational contexts. In addition to his solo career he enjoys collaborating with singers and instrumentalists as Andreas Scholl, Nuria Rial and Dorothee Oberlinger in different styles and backgrounds.

His discography includes the CDs Come heavy sleep with works by Britten and Bach (alpha records),

XXI (Contemporary Music for Solo Lute) (Lumaudis), The Lute is a Song (including arias with Andreas Scholl. Renée Fleming and Sting) (Decca), Songs From the Labyrinth with Sting (Deutsche Grammophon), Wayfaring Stranger – Folksongs as well as A Musical Banquet (Lutesongs) with Andreas Scholl (Decca), Reminiscences for guitar and string quartet, Mosaiques for guitar and violin with Stefan Milenkovich (Lumaudis) as well as Seance for guitar, lute and violoncello with Boris Andrianov (Lumaudis).

Coviello Classics has released the album Con guitara with the programme A Spanish journey together with Nuria Rial in 2020 and Sony Classical/deutsche harmonia mundi the album Dialoge featuring the programme Bach a due with Dorothee Oberlinger.

Protegé of Sergiu Celibidache, Edin Karamazov began his musical career with the classical guitar and was awarded First Prizes at four guitar competitions. He continued his studies of the Baroque Lute with Hopkinson Smith at the Scola Cantorum Basiliensis.

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