Davina Clarke And Mary Bevan - Sweet Stillness [CD]

Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.All items shipped within 3 working days of payment.Sweet Stillness features British artists Davina Clarke (violinist) and Mary Bevan (soprano). The project is centred around Handel's Neun Deutsche Arien, set to the texts of Barthold Heinrich Brockes. With exemplary obligato-style writing, frequent appearances in recital repertoires, and few recordings available, we have decided to share our interpretations of the arias. Sweet Stillness puts the Nine German Arias in a revised order which Brockes intimated for them, called the Frxfchlings-Cantata (Spring Cantata). This order makes them much more suited for a sequential performance than the original autograph, which places many arias in the same key as the one that follows; in Brockes' order, pleasing key relations between arias emerge. These historical texts have also been given a modern twist by translating and distilling each text into two lines of English prose, specially and newly written by Baroque cellist Jonathan Rees, who is a close friend. Indeed, the album is an interdisciplinary project of poetry, music and art, connected thematically by nature but also through a collaborative effort borne of friendship. Many of our peers and close friends have contributed to the album's artwork; cover art shot by operatic tenor Andrew Staples, sleeve notes from oboist Leo Duarte, and translations hand-written in ink calligraphy by baroque violinist Julia Kuhn which have been set upon vibrant watercolours hand-painted by Rees.

9 German Arias: Die ihr aus dunklen Gruu0308ften, HWV 208

9 German Arias: Das zitternde Glxe4nzen der spielenden Wellen, HWV 203

9 German Arias: Meine Seele hxf6rt im Sehen, HWV 207

Sonata in G Minor, HWV 364a: 1. Larghetto

Sonata in G Minor, HWV 364a: 2. Allegro

Sonata in G Minor, HWV 364a: 3. Adagio

Sonata in G Minor, HWV 364a: 4. Allegro

9 German Arias: Sxfcxdfer Blumen Ambraflocken, HWV 204

9 German Arias: Flammende Rose, Zierde der Erden, HWV 210

9 German Arias: Singe, Seele, Gott zum Preise, HWV 206

Sonata in F Major, HWV 370: 1. Adagio

Sonata in F Major, HWV 370: 2. Allegro

Sonata in F Major, HWV 370: 3. Largo

Sonata in F Major, HWV 370: 4. Allegro

9 German Arias: Kxfcnft'ger Zeiten eitler Kummer, HWV 202

9 German Arias: In den angenehmen Bxfcschen, HWV 209

9 German Arias: Sxfcxdfe Stille, sanfte Quelle, HWV 205

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