Cristina Pasqua

Beatles Love Bach is a wayto thank you to those who awakened a parallel path of my academic musical life: Johann Sebastian Bach and the Beatles. This CD is a dream that comes true after so many years: to record this music in the first sources of inspiration of the Liverpool's geniuses. The same organ that accompanied Paul McCartney - at St Barnabas Church in Liverpool, when he sang as a chorister at 1954-1956 reverberates in this record, uniting the emotion of sounding together the great idols of my adolescence and musical life as a whole.

This is the only recording of sacred music by the extraordinary 17th-century Venetian singer and composer Barbara Strozzi. The Latin works in her collection Sacri Affetti Musicali were entirely suitable for church performance–something Strozzi herself, as a woman outside a convent, was forbidden to do. Most likely she performed these pieces as "spiritual recreation" at meetings of the "Academy of the Unisons" founded by her father, a well-known poet.