Bach & Pärt: Piano Works

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SOMM Recordings
Release Date
October 26, 2018
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BACH PART
    • PERFORMER
      Cordelia Williams
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 26, 2018
    • UPC
      748871018624
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SOMMCD 0186
    • LABEL
      SOMM Recordings
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Für Anna Maria

      Composer: Arvo Pärt

      Performer: Cordelia Williams

    2. Invention No. 1 in C Major, BWV 772

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Cordelia Williams

    3. Invention No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 773

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Cordelia Williams

    4. Invention No. 3 in D Major, BWV 774

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Cordelia Williams

    5. Invention No. 4 in D Minor, BWV 775

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Cordelia Williams

    6. Invention No. 5 in E-Flat Major, BWV 776

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Cordelia Williams

    7. Invention No. 6 in E Major, BWV 777

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Cordelia Williams

    8. Invention No. 7 in E Minor, BWV 778

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Cordelia Williams

    9. Invention No. 8 in F Major, BWV 779

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Cordelia Williams

    10. Invention No. 9 in F Minor, BWV 780

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Cordelia Williams

    11. Invention No. 10 in G Major, BWV 781

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Cordelia Williams

    12. Invention No. 11 in G Minor, BWV 782

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Cordelia Williams

    13. Invention No. 12 in A Major, BWV 783

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Cordelia Williams

    14. Invention No. 13 in A Minor, BWV 784

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Cordelia Williams

    15. Invention No. 14 in B-Flat Major, BWV 785

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Cordelia Williams

    16. Invention No. 15 in B Minor, BWV 786

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Cordelia Williams

    17. Für Alina

      Composer: Arvo Pärt

      Performer: Cordelia Williams

    18. Sinfonia No. 1 in C Major, BWV 787

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Cordelia Williams

    19. Sinfonia No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 788

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Cordelia Williams

    20. Sinfonia No. 3 in D Major, BWV 789

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Cordelia Williams

    21. Sinfonia No. 4 in D Minor, BWV 790

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Cordelia Williams

    22. Sinfonia No. 5 in E-Flat Major, BWV 791

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Cordelia Williams

    23. Sinfonia No. 6 in E Major, BWV 792

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Cordelia Williams

    24. Sinfonia No. 7 in E Minor, BWV 793

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Cordelia Williams

    25. Sinfonia No. 8 in F Major, BWV 794

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Cordelia Williams

    26. Sinfonia No. 9 in F Minor, BWV 795

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Cordelia Williams

    27. Sinfonia No. 10 in G Major, BWV 796

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Cordelia Williams

    28. Sinfonia No. 11 in G Minor, BWV 797

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Cordelia Williams

    29. Sinfonia No. 12 in A Major, BWV 798

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Cordelia Williams

    30. Sinfonia No. 13 in A Minor, BWV 799

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Cordelia Williams

    31. Sinfonia No. 14 in B-Flat Major, BWV 800

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Cordelia Williams

    32. Sinfonia No. 15 in B Minor, BWV 801

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Cordelia Williams

    33. Variationen zur Gesundung von Arinuschka

      Composer: Arvo Pärt

      Performer: Cordelia Williams

    34. Prelude in C Major, BWV 924

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Cordelia Williams


Somm Recordings and former BBC Young Musician Competition prize- winner Cordelia Williams present two sublime voices together for the first time on album in a poetic and probing coupling of the solo piano music of JS Bach - musical laureate of 17th-century Protestantism - and Arvo Pärt, principal voice of contemporary Holy Minimalism. Although a quarter of a millennia separates their births, both share a conviction that faith in God, as Williams notes in her introductory essay, "is the foundation of the creation of music." This pioneering coupling of the two composers reveals a surprising latticework of connections in their constant, shared striving for economy and essence. Pärt's signature chiming 'tintinnabuli' style is beautifully evoked in three pieces designed to console and comfort their dedicatees: the tolling, melancholic profundity of Für Alina; the quietly majestic and moving Für Anna Maria and the limpid, liquid invention of Variationen zur Gesundung von Arinuschka. Composed for his 10-year-old son, Wilhelm Friedemann (himself later a composer of distinction), Bach's twin sets of 15 Two-part Inventions (BWV 772-86) and 15 Three-part Sinfonias (BWV 787-801) are much more than mere pedagogic primers. Williams finds in them a richness of technical design far beyond their apparent simplicity. Here, Williams reverts to Bach's original ordering of the pieces to chart a subtly revealing way through music as intimate as it is illuminating.