With works by: Guillaume de Machaut (1300-1377) , Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) , Heinrich Isaac (1450-1517) , John Dowland (1562-1626)

Contributors: Nobuko Imai, Mie Miki

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Machaut: Motette Nr. 13 für Viola & Akkordeon; Rondeau Nr. 14 für Viola & Akkordeon
+Bach: Italienisches Konzert BWV 971 für Akkordeon; Partita BWV 1006 für Violine solo; Gambensonate BWV 1027 für Viola & Akkordeon; Choräle "Befiehl du deine Wege" & "Herzlich tut mich verlangen" für Viola & Akkordeon
+Isaac: Amis des que für Viola & Akkordeon; A fortune contrent für Viola & Akkordeon
+Dowland: Lachrimae Antiquae für Viola & Akkordeon; Can she excuse my wrongs für Viola & Akkordeon; If my complaints für Viola & Akkordeon

Artists:: Nobuko Imai, Mie Miki (Akkordeon)
Label:: BIS
Year of recording ca.:: 2001
Item number:: 4478829
UPC/EAN:: 7318590012291
Release date:: 14.4.2004

Take one of the world's leading violists. Add an accordion player of rare talent and musical imagination and a generous helping of Baroque masterpieces. Season this with a mixture of spicy Renaissance harmonies and rhythms, and bring it all to a simmer in the warm acoustics of a 14th century church. The result is Antiquities, a disc which ranges from the meditative (as in Dowland's Lachrymae) to the extrovert (J. S. Bach's Italian Concerto). Always easy on the ear, this disc is nevertheless constantly thought-provoking: the unfamiliarity of the sonorities making us hear the music anew. »Is one actually allowed to play a Bach chorale like this?« is one question which may spring to mind. Another is: »Performed in this way, what does a motet by Machaut actually communicate?«

Among string players, Nobuko Imai is a household name. One of the viola's foremost exponents, she has over the years recorded some of the most important repertoire for the instrument on BIS – always to great acclaim. A recent offering was BIS-CD-1211, containing music for viola by Max Reger, a disc which was awarded a Diapason d'Or as well as being singled out by the reviewer of the web site Classics Today. com who gave it an 'unqualified »must-have« recommendation‹.

Mie Miki will also be familiar to BIS followers, partly for Sonorities, her disc of contemporary works for the accordion (BIS-CD-1144). But her interpretations of music by Scarlatti, Rameau and other Baroque masters have also been much noticed. Musical partners of long standing, Nobuko Imai and Mie Miki have already collaborated on one BIS release, Into the Depth of Time (BIS-CD-929). About that disc, with contemporary works for the instruments, the critic of the German magazine Fono Forum wrote that the »magnificent duo opened up horizons previously unthought of«, remarking upon the masterful way the two musicians managed to »fuse together the sonorities of their individual instruments.« That Nobuko Imai and Mie Miki on the present disc, in repertoire where we »know« exactly how it should sound, again offers us new horizons, is a testament to their great musicality and gift as chamber musicians.

Tracklisting

Disk 1 von 1 (CD)

1 Motet 23: Felix Virgo/Inviolata/Ad Te Suspiramus
2 Rondeau 14: 'Ma Fin Est Mon Commencement'
3 I. Without Tempo Marking
4 II. Andante
5 Iii. Presto
6 Amis Des Que
7 A Fortune Contrent
8 I. Preludio
9 II. Loure
10 Iii. Gavotte En Rondeau
11 IV. Menuet I-Menuet II
12 V. Bouree
13 VI. Gigue
14 Lachrimae Antiquae
15 Can She Excuse My Wrongs
16 If My Complaints
17 I. Adagio
18 II. Allegro Ma Non Tanto
19 Iii. Andante
20 IV. Allegro Moderato
21 Chorale 'Befiehl Du Deine Wege'

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