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J. S. Bach: Sonata in C Major BWV1005; Partita in E Major BWV1006; Barry Guy: Lysandra

by Maya Homburger

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Fuga 11:45
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Largo 03:21
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Loure 03:51
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Bourée 01:43
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Gigue 02:20

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"What started off as a project which I was planning for a three year period and wanted to perform and record in relatively quick succession has become something of a life long obsession,” says Maya Homburger. “To practise Bach, to start almost every day with one of his sonatas or partitas is a source of constant wonder and joy, of humility and respect. The search for tools, the search for enlightenment and deeper understanding of these unique pieces becomes the centre of ones violinistic being. I hope that this recording catches some of the fragility and tenderness within Bach’s Music as well as the powerful, intense and exuberant moments.”

Barry Guy’s Lysandra completes the set of three solo violin pieces written to sit in between Bach's solo violin masterpieces. Deliberately avoided is any paraphrasing of Bach's music, preferring to keep the language consistent with a pure research of the warm colours of the baroque violin and the intense expression associated with the instrument. Lysandra represents a somewhat more dramatic conclusion to the three pieces. Certain “leitmotivs” and techniques from the two previous pieces are alluded to, but within a more robust assertive scenario. Perhaps the summation of this more heroic stance is the inclusion of a fugato that tests the faculties of the violinist’s art and expresses Guy’s admiration for the master J.S. Bach and the player’s ability to thrill with athletic flights of virtuosity.

Guy’s three violin compositions all have titles of butterflies which for Homburger “represent the ultimate symbol for the mysteries and spirituality in nature, for colour, lightness of touch, intensity”. Lysandra is named after Lysandra bellargus - Adonis blue.

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released October 24, 2011

Maya Homburger: Baroque violin · Barockvioline · Violon baroque (antonio dalla costa, Treviso 1740) · Bow: early 18th-century model by Luis Emilio rodriguez carrington and early 17th-century model by Basil de Visser

Recorded by Peter Laenger 13. – 17. december 2010 · Propstei St. Gerold, St. Gerold, Austria · Produced by Peter Laenger and Barry Guy · Cover painting “Stepping red” 2008 by Fred hellier, photographed by Charly Fülscher. Graphic design: Jonas Schoder · Photograph of Maya Homburger by Caroline Forbes · Text by Brian Lynch · Translations by Peter Jankowski (German) and Steve dept (French) · Grant aided by the Arts Council of Ireland and the Steo Stiftung, Zürich

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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
you will find Jazz and improvised musics alongside baroque masterpieces.
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