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Veni Creator Spiritus 05:37
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Passacaglia 10:05
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Inachis 13:20
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Dakryon 19:28
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Sonata Seconda 06:18
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Peace Piece 07:28
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Crucifixion - Mystery Sonata X (I) 01:35
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Crucifixion - Mystery Sonata X (II) 01:52
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Crucifixion - Mystery Sonata X (III) 02:54
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Crucifixion - Mystery Sonata X (IV) 02:13
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Crucifixion – Mystery Sonata X (V) 02:12
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Ember 01:40
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This second album of music for baroque violin and double bass arises out of our ever expanding repertoire and requests from listeners for a document to remind them of the stories and colours created in our concerts, by these two extremes of the string instrument family.

The sound palette on this CD is further extended by a studio-derived playback (in 'Dakryon') and the addition of percussion on selected tracks.

Our imagination was fired on hearing Pierre Favre’s multi timbral kit and the controlled sensitivity with which he explored the potential of this powerful sound generator.

This album, like its predecessor 'Ceremony' (ECM New Series 1643) brings together baroque and contemporary music as well as improvisations in the territory that we like to call “musical stretching”, a metaphor for intelligent open minded listening. We are sometimes asked if this is “crossover” music. A term, which is often used to describe the moment when one musical genre moves into another domain. Sadly it is mostly used in the context of rather shallow displays where one genre is “spiced up” by another, to somehow make the first more acceptable. We reject this entirely since our motivations are to retain the sanctity of the music at hand, but find solutions to performing in what may be perceived as an unusual instrumental format. Thus, the use of percussion on this album is not to give the music a commercial tinge, but to use the sound world of Pierre Favre’s instruments as expressive, rhetorical statements within an appropriate context. Therefore the use of percussion is restricted to musical areas that could creatively benefit from an expanded scenario, not the other way round, “loading” each track with percussion events.

A case in point is the use of percussion in 'Dakryon', a composition originally penned for our two instruments and studio derived sounds. Here the percussion instruments find a ready-made home for a creative dialogue. 'Peace Piece', originally a bass solo, similarly benefits from the interplay of percussion and bass.

Another kind of extension resides in the track 'Inachis'. This was the first of three solo pieces to be included on Maya’s three-album project of Bach Sonatas and Partitas. Here, on this CD (and often in our duo recitals) we have enjoyed the decision to add the double bass as an improvising entity whilst Maya takes care of the composed material. This in effect, adds a second generation of musical activity, taking Inachis to a new place, and crucially allows Maya to interpret the written solo part with a different emphasis. You can hear the original version of 'Inachis' on MCD 0301 Bach/Guy (Maya Recordings).

The other pieces on this album, all baroque “beauties” so to speak, are chosen not only for their powerful spirituality and freedom, but also for their flexibility and adaptability. It is important for us that our interpretation retains the dignity of the original music whilst allowing us the license to best choose the most appropriate way to make the music speak and sing.

We hope you will enjoy the fruits of our research.

— Barry Guy



"Barry Guy’s collaborations with Baroque violinist Maya Homburger are no less daring. They create a conduit through which music from the 17th century and earlier can mingle effortlessly with contemporary music that privileges improvisation. 'Dakryon' has much of the hallowed ambiance of Homburger and Guy’s 'Ceremony' (ECM, 1997) which is largely attributable to an ongoing focus on the works of H.I.F.Biber and the reassessment of older, somber Guy compositions like “Inachis” and 'Peace Piece'. It’s an atmosphere that remains unperturbed by Pierre Favre’s robust contributions to the early hymn 'Veni Creator Spiritus'. Even when Guy and Favre improvise as a duo on 'Peace Piece', they maintain a reverential tone that segues smoothly into Homburger’s breath-taking first phrases of Biber’s 'Mystery Sonata X'."

— Bill Shoemaker, Downbeat November 2005

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released January 1, 2005

Maya Homburger: baroque violin
Barry Guy: bass
Pierre Favre: percussion

Recorded by Martin Pearson, 24—27 January 2004 at Radio Studio Zurich. Produced by Nicholas Parker. Cover art: 'Seeking Venus 1' Phil Morsmann, photographed by Caroline Forbes. Cover design Craige Quainton.

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Maya Recordings Oberstammheim, Switzerland

Barry Guy and Maya Homburger founded Maya Recordings in 1991 to take care of their desires to document the various projects that occupy their musical lives. So unusually
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