Bach: The Art Of The Fugue, Bwv 1080

Quinta Essentia

Ensemble matis is made up of young musicians of various nationalities who originally met at the Escola Superior de Musica de Catalunya in Barcelona, and ultimately came together to form the current group at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel. Since the ensemble's inception in the autumn of 2012, they have worked together intensively in formations contingent on the repertoire and have attempted to share and expand upon their experiences in their joint music-making. With Japan, Austria, Switzerland, and South Korea, many different cultures are represented in the ensemble, which enriches and consistently makes the collaboration exciting. The ensemble has specialized in the performance of Baroque chamber music and, as the name ''Matis'' implies, pay sspecial attention to small details, nuances, and timbres in the music and in ensemble playing. The ensemble's goal is to bring the music with its wealth of color closer to the audience and to bring to life different expressive values. The image of a dream, of a soap bubble, of the short blossoming of a rose - probably at no time was the visualization of transience so colorfully an doriginally, so profoundly and full of allusions, so diversely and also so sensually depicted in painting as in the seventeenth century. It was a time of upheaval in which violence, war, epidemics, and hardship collided with great economic prosperity and highly sophisticated courtly art, in which teh fervor of the most diverse religious beliefs was radically lived out, and in which there prevailed, alongside the omnipresence of death, an incredible desire for a life full of joy, as short as it might be. The Dutch painter Evert Collier created works of great virtuosity - his still lifes, number among the particularly opulent of their genre. Time and again he incorporated known, identifiable musical compositions - including those by Jacob van Eyck that can be heard on this release - in his pictures, and one of the most beautiful examples is the ''Vanitas'' still life in Leipzig.

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