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Release Date: 30th Dec 2016
Catalogue No: BIS2159
Label: BIS
Length: 77 minutes

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Excerpt, Bach, J S: Partita for solo violin No. 2 in D minor, BWV1004

Work length1:12

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Cecilia Zilliacus
Recorded: April 2015
Recording Venue: Lanna Church, Sweden

I. Allemande

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Cruger: Befiehl du deine Wege

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Lena Willemark
Recorded: April 2015
Recording Venue: Lanna Church, Sweden

Excerpt, Bach, J S: Partita for solo violin No. 2 in D minor, BWV1004

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Cecilia Zilliacus
Recorded: April 2015
Recording Venue: Lanna Church, Sweden

II. Courante

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Regnart: Wo soll ich fliehen hin

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Lena Willemark
Recorded: April 2015
Recording Venue: Lanna Church, Sweden

Excerpt, Bach, J S: Partita for solo violin No. 2 in D minor, BWV1004

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Cecilia Zilliacus, Lena Willemark
Recorded: April 2015
Recording Venue: Lanna Church, Sweden

III. Sarabande

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IV. Gigue

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V. Chaconne (Arr. H. Thoene for Voice & Violin)

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Henryson: Sonata for Solo Violin

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Cecilia Zilliacus

I. Lento

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II. Andante largo

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III. Moderato misterioso

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IV. Allegro moderato "The Three-Headed Ostrich"

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V. Siciliano

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VI. Presto

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VII. Lento

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Sandstrøm, S-D: Dansa

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Lena Willemark, Cecilia Zilliacus

No. 1, Före (Gömt)

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No. 2, Dansa

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No. 3, Mellan I (Öppet)

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No. 4, O dansa

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No. 5, Mellan II (Bredvid)

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No. 6, Dansa grymheten

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No. 7, Efter (Glömt)

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Two of Sweden's most highly respected musicians, each in their own field, join forces on this very special disc. Classical violinist Cecilia Zilliacus has won acclaim for her recordings in magazines such as The Strad and Gramophone (Editor’s Choice), and folk musician Lena Willemark is a fixture on the Scandinavian folk and world music scene.

The two open their highly original programme with Bach’s Partita in D minor in a version for voice and violin. This duo version is based on the research of the musicologist Helga Thoene, who has proposed that the celebrated Chaconne which closes the partita was written in response to the death of the composer’s first wife. Woven into Bach’s violin part are numerous quotations from various chorales, from which Willemark has devised a vocal part which she performs drawing on the strong tradition of chorale singing in Swedish folk music. Together with Cecilia Zilliacus’s violin, the clear attacks and straight-toned and direct style of singing form a final farewell, by turns dramatic and serene, to a loved companion.

In order to expand their common repertoire, the two musicians approached the composer Sven-David Sandström in 2011. The result was Dansa (‘Dance’), a scene in seven sections to a text by the poet Maria Wine. Having collaborated previously with both performers, Sandström includes improvisatory passages and provides rich opportunities for the folk musician Lena Willemark to make her imprint on the music, including asking her to change over to the fiddle in one of the sections. Between these two works Cecilia Zilliacus performs a solo sonata written for her by Svante Henryson. In the course of seven movements the piece reflects the versatility of its composer, with a background in jazz, classical music and heavy metal, and allows Zilliacus to display the many facets of her own musicianship.

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March 2017

It’s strange but interesting.

29th January 2017

Lena Willemark is a Swedish folk singer, and her chorales are a solo-voice wail, plangent and moving, that cuts across Cecilia Zilliacus’s admirable violin like an echo from a ritual past.

20th February 2017

The earthiness that made her Nielsen so idiomatic is ever-present on this fascinating and unusual recording...Unique, special and beautifully recorded with a touch of resonance, this disc is recommended for any ambitious violinst with an interest in folk traditions.

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