Made in 2018 and not released until 2021, this release is something of an oddball in the catalog of superstar countertenor Andreas Scholl. It just has a few "canciones," and although Bach gets top billing, it's really an album of music by composer Leo Brouwer, who arranged Bach's Suite No. 1 for solo cello, BWV 1007, for lute. That makes a big interlude with no Scholl, who perhaps was trying to further the career of hot young guitarist and lutenist Edin Karamazov, and there are points where his creamy tone shows signs of ...
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Made in 2018 and not released until 2021, this release is something of an oddball in the catalog of superstar countertenor Andreas Scholl. It just has a few "canciones," and although Bach gets top billing, it's really an album of music by composer Leo Brouwer, who arranged Bach's Suite No. 1 for solo cello, BWV 1007, for lute. That makes a big interlude with no Scholl, who perhaps was trying to further the career of hot young guitarist and lutenist Edin Karamazov, and there are points where his creamy tone shows signs of strain. Yet one sign of great artists is the ability to bring something of interest even to material outside their own specialties, and Scholl certainly does so here. Consider Brouwer's arrangements of Three English Folk Songs, one of which, Wayfaring Stranger, is actually an American folk song. This seems a vast distance from what Scholl usually does, but his reading, limpid and straightforward, is quite affecting, and one might guess that he was not a native English speaker, but not...
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Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel; Johann Sebastian Bach; Leo Brouwer. New. New in new packaging. USA Orders only! Brand New product! please allow delivery times of 3-7 business days within the USA. US orders only please.
