Janine Jansen: Live Sessions: Bach
Violinist Janine Jansen is continuing her promotion and exploitation of the digital market by releasing an EP specially tailored to the world of downloads – and available exclusively at iTunes. "Live Session: Bach" fully profits from the decisively shorter time needed to realise a publication: Recorded in Berlin at the end of February of this year, the music is of an unprecedented freshness, allowing her audience a crystal-clear look at where she stand as an artist today. Both in terms of repertoire and line-up, "Live Session: Bach" can be regarded as an immediate follow-up and addendum to her succesful (physical) full-length “Bach Inventions & Partitia” on Decca Classical. Again, Jansen will be joined by Maxim Rysanov (Viola) and Torleif Thedéen (Cello), with a special guest appearance of her father Jan Jansen on Harpsichord. In conjunction with these widely renowned musicians, Janine Jansen embarks on three musical adventures of different instrumental combinations, all based around the music of Bach, a composer Jansen has repeatedly declared her sincere admiration for. On the strength of "Live Session: Bach", the Dutch instrumentalist has also been invited to perform at Berlin’s “iTunes Festival” as one of the few select classical musicians.
At approximately 25 minutes, "Live Session: Bach" comes in a format the classical music industry has defied for quite some time: A mini album of pieces with its own unmistakable identity. It is this quality, much more than the fact that the release will only be available online, which qualifies it as something out of the ordinary.
In terms of repertoire, Janine Jansen covers the Trio Sonata in G major and extracts from the Sonata for Violin and Spinet No.6 in G major as well as the Sonata for Violin and Spinet No.4 in c minor. According to Decca, "Live Session: Bach" is part of a longer series of sessions, to be continued over the next months.
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