Frédéric d'Ursel & Cindy Castillo - Bach - Deleuze: Träume und Erwachen (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

When Cindy Castillo and Frédéric d'Ursel told me about their project involving the six Sonatas for violin and keyboard by J.-S. Bach and invited me to write pieces for violin and organ to frame two of them, I immediately and intensely felt the challenge. The juxtaposition of styles that would inevitably result implied an equation that was not easy to solve: the music to be created had to be in connection, in dialogue with that of this "Master" - one of the most famous in the entire History of Western Music! In any case, it seemed to me that the project had to aim at a proposal for an overall form whose elements would be brought together in a coherent architecture that would be perceptible to the listener. Finally, it seemed to me that the fragments I was going to interpose should also prepare the listener to rediscover Bach's work and prepare him to welcome this particular version of these sonatas that tradition has handed down to us as pieces for violin and harpsichord. A simple three-part insertion proposal was adopted: a prelude for organ and violin to introduce the Sonata in C minor BWV 1017, an interlude for solo violin to lead into the Sonata in G major BWV 1019 (which naturally creates a balance with the third movement of this second sonata that Bach intended for solo keyboard) and a postlude for violin and organ to conclude the ensemble. The complex harmonies and singularly expressive melodic sinuosities filled with fleeting dissonances of the very famous Sicilian opening of the Sonata in C minor BWV 1017 were particularly inspiring to dialogue with Bach's music in unlikely, sometimes ambiguous stylistic confines and in a dreamlike sound universe that led to the title chosen for this production: Träume und Erwachen.

Note from Cindy Castillo, organist: An original project by Jean-Pierre Deleuze based on the sonatas for keyboard and violin BWV 1017 and 1019.

"Like the contemporary setting of an ancient jewel, Jean-Pierre Deleuze gives us his dreamlike vision of Bach's work by inserting personal pages around and at the heart of the sonatas in C minor and G major".

Tracklist:
01. Deleuze: Träume und Erwachen: Prélude
02. Bach: Violin Sonata No. 4 in C Minor, BWV 1017: I. Siciliano (Largo)
03. Bach: Violin Sonata No. 4 in C Minor, BWV 1018: II. Allegro
04. Bach: Violin Sonata No. 4 in C Minor, BWV 1019: III. Adagio
05. Bach: Violin Sonata No. 4 in C Minor, BWV 1020: IV. (Allegro)
06. Deleuze: Ruf: Interlude
07. Bach: Violin Sonata No. 6 in G Major, BWV 1019: I. Allegro
08. Bach: Violin Sonata No. 6 in G Major, BWV 1019: II. Largo
09. Bach: Violin Sonata No. 6 in G Major, BWV 1019: III. Cantabile, ma non poco Adagio (Allegro)
10. Bach: Violin Sonata No. 6 in G Major, BWV 1019: IV. Adagio
11. Bach: Violin Sonata No. 6 in G Major, BWV 1019: V. (Allegro)
12. Deleuze: Träume und Erwachen: Postlude


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