Shinzo wo Sasageyo

In earlier times, adaptations and rearrangements of their own works or those of others formed an integral part of the daily lives of musicians and composers. So-called ‘historically informed’ performance practice, which has developed out of a strictly historical perspective on past eras of music, long left this way of treating an existing composition almost totally unexplored. Today, however, it is enjoying a renaissance and is part of a musician’s training. The idea of arranging Bach’s works is a natural one, since the composer himself was an inveterate transcriber. Most of the programme recorded here consists of solo keyboard works rescored for a chamber formation – in other words, the performers have chosen an approach that is the contrary of Bach’s usual practice.

Seventh album release of Aika Yoshioka. Yoshioka Aika (吉岡亜衣加) is a Japanese singer-songwriter signed to TEAM Entertainment label and Rock'n' Banana agency. She made her debut in 2009 with the album Harari and is known for singing theme songs for the otome game series Hakuouki.

Archie Shepp & Joachim Kuhn - Wo!Man (2011) {Harmonia Mundi ARCH1102}
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Jazz / Post Bop / Saxophone / Piano

Joachim Kuhn, the great German jazz pianist, has played piano with Ornette Coleman – now he partners another saxophone legend of the 1960s American new wave in this warmly lyrical and distinctive duet with Archie Shepp. Shepp's signature is a robust yet hollow-toned and slippery sound that joins the sumptuousness of early jazz saxists to the multiphonic abrasiveness of John Coltrane and Albert Ayler.

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Megumi Hayashibara (林原 めぐみ, born March 30, 1967) is a Japanese voice actress, singer, radio personality, and lyricist from Tokyo. Over the course of a twenty year career, she has become one of Japan's most popular seiyuu having over 236 roles credited to her name, and she has won Animage's most popular seiyuu award twelve times.

Actually, this cantata and the potent performance it receives here set me thinking, not for the first time, about the debate as to whether or not Bach intended these cantatas to be sung one voice to a part. Though he may have been driven to this expediency on occasion I’ve never been very comfortable with this idea, though Joshua Rifkin’s wonderfully intimate recording of BWV 106 came closest to convincing me otherwise.

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