In 2001 the German label ECM released a disc under the title Morimur
on which the violinist Christoph Poppen and the Hilliard Ensemble
presented the findings of the musicologist Helga Thoene. She had
discovered a whole series of fascinating numerical relationships in the
music of Bach, especially in the sonatas and partitas for violin,
shedding light on messages the composer had hidden ‘between the lines’.
Three years earlier, in 1998, Glossa had already released a recording
based on the identical Thoene studies. Here, the voices of Emma Kirkby
and Carlos Mena recreated the choral parts of Christ lag in Todesbanden, enveloped by the magical sonority of José MiguelMoreno’s baroque lute in his exquisite transcription of the D minor Ciaccona for violin.
We
have now reedited this disc within the Glossa Platinum collection. A
fundamental part of the Glossa catalogue, it has been unavailable in
stores for a number of years. On it, after 15 minutes of intoxicating
interaction between Moreno, Kirkby and Mena, the lutenist from Madrid
interprets the complete versions of the Sonata BWV 1001 and the Partita
BWV 1004, both originally for violin, in an enchanting performance
which has led his numerous fans, among which can be found a good part
of the specialized press, to wonder when he will take on the bulk of
Bach’s oeuvre... (GLOSSA)
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