Kaori Uemura, Ricardo Rodriguez Miranda, Aline Zylberajch – Kagami – Mirror (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

The yamato word for mirror, 鏡kagami, can be read as “kami (divinity) surrounding ga (self)”: if you look in a mirror, what you see is your own self surrounded by divinity. Kaori Uemura has called her tale Kagami , because she believes that music reflects the inner depths of the self in the same way as a mirror. Mirrors were used in art as a reflection of what is, and as an allegory of truth and wisdom, a means of knowing yourself as you are. This recording is also a tribute to the Baroque composers who saw music not only as a mirror of divine creation, but equally as a means of expressing human emotions through musical figures which could produce specific affects.

Tracklist:
1. Kaori Uemura, Ricardo Rodriguez Miranda, Aline Zylberajch – Hume: The First Part of Ayres, French, Pollish and Others: No. 15, Good againe (05:50)
2. Kaori Uemura, Ricardo Rodriguez Miranda, Aline Zylberajch – Marais: 5e livre de pièces de viole, Suite in F Major: Prélude en harpègement (01:46)
3. Kaori Uemura, Ricardo Rodriguez Miranda, Aline Zylberajch – Marais: 4e livre de pièces de viole, Suite d’un goût étranger: La fougade (02:45)
4. Kaori Uemura, Ricardo Rodriguez Miranda, Aline Zylberajch – Bach: Sonata a Viola da Gamba e Cembalo Obligato in D Major, BWV 1028: I. Adagio (01:41)
5. Kaori Uemura, Ricardo Rodriguez Miranda, Aline Zylberajch – Bach: Sonata a Viola da Gamba e Cembalo Obligato in D Major, BWV 1028: II. Allegro (04:10)
6. Kaori Uemura, Ricardo Rodriguez Miranda, Aline Zylberajch – Dollé: Première Suitte: I. Prélude (01:33)
7. Kaori Uemura, Ricardo Rodriguez Miranda, Aline Zylberajch – Dollé: Première Suitte: II. Allemande “La Mantrÿ” (03:07)
8. Kaori Uemura, Ricardo Rodriguez Miranda, Aline Zylberajch – Dollé: Première Suitte: III. Le Tendre Engagement (04:08)
9. Kaori Uemura, Ricardo Rodriguez Miranda, Aline Zylberajch – Dollé: Première Suitte: IV. Rondeau “Le Gruer” (02:17)
10. Kaori Uemura, Ricardo Rodriguez Miranda, Aline Zylberajch – Dollé: Première Suitte: V. Sarabande (02:43)
11. Kaori Uemura, Ricardo Rodriguez Miranda, Aline Zylberajch – Dollé: Première Suitte: VI. Fugue (04:25)
12. Kaori Uemura, Ricardo Rodriguez Miranda, Aline Zylberajch – Dollé: Première Suitte: VII. Musette “La Favoritte” (03:29)
13. Kaori Uemura, Ricardo Rodriguez Miranda, Aline Zylberajch – Dollé: Première Suitte: VIII. La Badine (02:17)
14. Kaori Uemura, Ricardo Rodriguez Miranda, Aline Zylberajch – Bach: Sonata a Viola da Gamba e Cembalo Obligato in D Major, BWV 1028: III. Andante (04:16)
15. Kaori Uemura, Ricardo Rodriguez Miranda, Aline Zylberajch – Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III: When I am laid in earth (Transcr. for Viola da Gamba by Ryosuke Sakamoto) (03:57)
16. Kaori Uemura, Ricardo Rodriguez Miranda, Aline Zylberajch – Couperin: Pièces de Violes, Deuxième suite: III. Pompe funèbre. Très gravement (04:18)
17. Kaori Uemura, Ricardo Rodriguez Miranda, Aline Zylberajch – Bach: Italian Concerto in F Major, BWV 971: II. Andante (04:27)
18. Kaori Uemura, Ricardo Rodriguez Miranda, Aline Zylberajch – Marais: 2e livre de pièces de viole, Suite in A Major: Fantaisie (05:47)