Lara St. John - 2003 re:Bach
Violinist Lara St. John is one of classical music's most adventurous performers, so it can come as no surprise that she has chosen to take the music of Johannn Sebastian Bach in a bold new direction for this recording. Collaborating with the imaginative composer/producer Magnus Fiennes, she realizes a fresh, contemporary interpretation of Bach's music, through soundscapes that draw on the influences of world music, jazz and pop.
Ask musicians of any kind about the music of Bach and invariably one gets the same response - wonder and awe. Created in the 18th century, his works marked the pinnacle of Baroque music. Today his music endures and flourishes as something greater and very much alive, like elements of nature itself: essential, pure, vast, fertile, timeless, beyond mere brilliance or beauty.
To my very personal taste, I don't really like when classical compositions are re-arranged into this peculiar world music, jazz and pop sounds,and most of all I don't like the fact that Bach's melodies can barely be heard in the songs. However there are other cases I do like where electronic sounds accompany the original melodies, such as Die Form's The Bach Project, and they are not cut in parts to include the other arrangements. But I rather prefer them as beautiful as they are without electronic and danceable arrangements. Still, this was a request by my father from Music is the Key blog, so here it is.
Tracklist:
1. Largo
2. Tocceilidh
3. Goldberg2
4. Duetto
5. Echo
6. The Sicilian
7. Bombay Minor
8. Recit
9. aria
10. Fugue
11. Double
12. Gigue
13. Prelude
14. Ten Fifty Two
15. BADinerie
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