IF MUSIC

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Label
ERATO
Release Date
May 8, 2026
Format
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    Featuring
    • PERFORMER
      ORLINSKI, JAKUB / BIEL, MICHAL
    Product Details
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 08, 2026
    • UPC
      5021732985316
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      EAO298531.2
    • LABEL
      ERATO
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE

If music... showcases star countertenor Jakub J�zef Orlinski in 17 songs and arias by three composers of the Baroque era: Purcell, Handel and Fux. Perhaps unexpectedly, he is partnered not by an ensemble of period instruments but by a pianist - his long-standing colleague Michal Biel. "On this album we have combined arias and songs that inspire and speak to us, " says Jakub J�zef Orlinski. "I love thinking of albums as pages out of my diary. They are a statement of where I am as an artist." As Michal Biel, who draws on all the possibilities of a Steinway grand piano, freely admits: "If music... is not an answer to the question of how to perform these masterpieces with historical authenticity." He sees each aria or song as "a carefully considered transcription that reveals it's appeal transcending instrumentation".