If Music...
Jakub Józef Orliński, Michał Biel- PURCELL - Music for a While
- PURCELL - Fairest Isle
- PURCELL - What Power Art Thou? ("The Cold Song")
- PURCELL - Strike the Viol
- PURCELL - If Music Be the Food of Love (3rd Version)
- PURCELL - Sweeter Than Roses
- PURCELL - If Music Be the Food of Love (1st Version)
- PURCELL - Oh Lead Me To Some Peaceful Gloom
- PURCELL - Your Awful Voice
- FUX - Non t'amo per il ciel
- HANDEL - Otton, qual portentoso fulmine è questi? (Ottone)
- HANDEL - Voi che udite (Agrippina)
- HANDEL - Un zeffiro spirò (Rodelinda)
- HANDEL - Ombra mai fu (Serse)
- HANDEL - Siam prossimi al porto (Rinaldo)
- HANDEL - Furibondo spira il vento (Partenope)
- HANDEL - Where'er You Walk (Semele)
If music… showcases star countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński in 17 songs and arias by three composers of the Baroque era: Purcell, Handel and Fux. Perhaps unexpectedly, he is partnered not by an ensemble of period instruments but by a pianist – his long-standing colleague Michał Biel, who draws on all the possibilities of a modern Steinway grand.
“On this album we have combined arias and songs that inspire and speak to us, “ says Jakub Józef Orliński. Some of them are quite well known, but others are less popular. I have been familiar with many of them for years, though I have to admit that, in some cases, I needed to mature artistically to be able to do what I envisioned when I first encountered them – Handel’s ‘Ombra mai fu’ and Purcell’s ‘Cold Song’, for example ... I love thinking of albums as pages out of my diary. They are a statement of where I am as an artist … They solidify my interpretations, which sometimes change over time.”