Cordelia Williams - Johann Sebastian Bach: Two-part and Three-part Inventions, Arvo P?rt: F?r Alina, Variationen zur Gesundung von Arinuschk

Somm Recordings and former BBC Young Musician Competition prize-winner Cordelia Williams present two sublime voices together for the first time on disc in a poetic and probing coupling of the solo piano music of JS Bach � musical laureate of 17th-century Protestantism � and Arvo P�rt, principal voice of contemporary Holy Minimalism. Although a quarter of a millennia separates their births � Bach in 1685, P�rt in 1935 � both share a conviction that faith in God, as Williams notes in her introductory essay, 'is the foundation of the creation of music'. This pioneering coupling of the two composers reveals a surprising latticework of connections in their constant, shared striving for economy and essence.