Bach & Ponce
Suite No. 2 for Lute BWV 997 & 24 Preludes
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Tracklist
- Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Suite No. 2 for Lute in C minor BWV 997 (ca. 1738–1741)
Prelude - Fuga
- Sarabande
- Gigue
- Double
- Manuel María Ponce (1882–1948)
24 Preludes (1928/29)
Prelude in C major - Prelude in A minor
- Prelude in G major
- Prelude in E minor
- Prelude in D major
- Prelude in B minor
- Prelude in A major
- Prelude in F sharp minor
- Prelude in E major
- Prelude in C sharp minor
- Prelude in B major
- Prelude in G sharp minor
- Prelude in F sharp major
- Prelude in D sharp minor
- Prelude in D flat major
- Prelude in B flat minor
- Prelude in F major
- Prelude in D minor
- Prelude in B flat major
- Prelude in G minor
- Prelude in E flat major
- Prelude in C minor
- Prelude in A flat major
- Prelude in F minor
Guitarist Anne Haasch sets the mood for a dialogue across centuries in her new GENUIN CD with works by Johann Sebastian Bach and Manuel María Ponce. She combines the rarely
recorded 24 Preludes by the Mexican composer with the Lute Suite No. 2 by the Leipzig Thomaskantor, whom he revered. However, the juxtaposition of these works is a dialogue not only across time but across continents as well. Like Bach, Ponce has mastered the art of creating dense, eternal spheres of tension, but within ostensibly inconspicuous forms and simple, poetic lines. Anne Haasch captures this immensely expressive music's architecture, rhetoric, and content with her clear and vibrant playing.
Fono Forum
"Anne Haasch lets Bach's suite breathe, does not put a stiff-legged corset on it. (...) That has class, happens form-consciously and beautifully!"
Review by Tilman Urbach, 10/22
Klassik Heute
"[Anne Haasch] finds a harmonious symbiosis between expression and emotion on the one hand and virtuoso dexterity on the other. All in all, this is a CD well worth listening to even for non-guitarists!"
Review by Guido Krawinkel, 2022, June 25
Guitar Acoustic
"Haasch captures both Bach's Lute Suite No. 2, transcribed for guitar, and Ponce's 24 Presludes with her airy yet precise playing in a way that emphasizes the similarities between the two pieces."
Guitar Acoustic, June 2022
Akustik Gitarre
"Anne Haasch performs convincingly and with remarkable virtuosity what the pieces [by Ponce] actually are: small, spiritual short stories, a microcosm not without dramaturgy. Wonderful."
Review by Wieland Ulrichs, April 2022