Mika Putterman / Jory Vinikour BACH CHEZ LES MENDELSSOHN

 

BACH CHEZ LES MENDELSSOHN

 

Jory Vinikour O BARBARO AMORE

Jory Vinikour is an American harpsichordist and conductor. A Chicago native, Vinikour studied in Paris with Huguette Dreyfus and Kenneth Gilbert on a Fulbright scholarship. He was the winner of the 1993 Warsaw International Harpsichord Competition and the 1994 Prague Spring International Music Competition, and he has appeared as a guest performer at music festivals around the world. With a concerto repertoire ranging from Baroque to contemporary music, Vinikour has been a soloist with L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra, the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, working with Stéphane Denève, Martin Haselböck, Marek Janowski, Fabio Luisi, and Marc Minkowski, among many other conductors. Vinikour has performed as an accompanist for David Daniels, Hélène Delavault, Vivica Genaux, Marijana Mijanovic, Dorothea Röschmann, and Rolando Villazón, and he has toured Europe with Anne Sofie von Otter. Vinikour recorded a program of 17th century English and Italian music with lutenist Jakob Lindberg, which was released in 2005. A champion of new music, Vinikour has premiered works by Harold Meltzer, Frédéric Durieux, Stephen Blumberg, Patricia Morehead, and Graham Lynch, in addition to more established modern pieces by Cyril Scott, György Ligeti, and Michael Nyman. Vinikour has recorded for Sono Luminus, Dorian, Deutsche Grammophon, Affetto, Delos, Mandala, and Consonance.

Rachel Barton Pine / Jory Vinikour J.S. BACH The Sonatas for Violin & Harpsichord

Violinist Rachel Barton Pine and harpsichordist Jory Vinikour, critically acclaimed artists of international renown — and also close friends — record together for the first time on this album of J.S. Bach’s complete sonatas for violin and harpsichord. The artists approach these works as Bach intended: as trio sonatas with equally important roles for the violin and the harpsichord’s treble and bass lines. In addition to the six Sonatas, the album offers the remarkable and ravishingly poetic Cantabile, BWV 1019a, a freestanding work that Bach originally conceived as a movement of the Sonata, BWV 1019.
Cedille’s audiophile engineering and the intimate acoustics of Evanston, IL’s Nichols Hall allow the complex trio textures to blossom with detail. In all, the album sets a new standard for a body of work that Bach’s son, C.P.E., considered among his father’s finest compositions.

Anna Kasyan HÄNDEL Shades of Love

Anna Kasyan is one of the most promising French sopranos of her generation. She has established herself in a wide repertoire of opera and sacred music to chamber music, from baroque to contemporary. 

Recent highlights include Neda/Pagliacci and Lola/Cavaleria Rusticana in Toulon in October 2016, Despina/Cosi fan Tutte in Toulon in November 2015, Susanna/Le nozze di Figaro in Rome in May/June 2015, I Vespri Siciliani in Copenhagen, also Anna Kasyan's debut as Musetta/La Bohème at the Opéra de Toulon where she also sang Rosina/ Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Hélène/Vêpres Siciliennes by Verdi in Nice and also Rusalka/Rusalka in Rome. She also did a series of concerts in France with the Orchestre de l'Opéra de Toulon conducted by Giuliano Carella. In June 2012, she sung the role of Clorinda/La Cenerentola and this opera film produced by Andrea Andermann was broadcasted live in more than 150 countries worldwide and will be released on DVD this year. 

Future highlights include Rosina/Il Barbiere di Siviglia at Copenhagen Royal Opera in season 17/18.