J.S. Bach – “Cantata a 2” – OVNI Baroque – Release on 13th of June 2025

Emmanuelle Dauvin, violin & organ pedalboard
Heather Newhouse, soprano

Since 2017, violinist Emmanuelle Dauvin plays whilst accompanying herself on the organ pedalboard – recalling the musical technique of Nicolaus Bruhns at the end of the seventeenth century. This is OVNI Baroque : a spectacular yet forgotten musical practice.

Alongside soprano Heather Newhouse, she created Cantata a 2 : a concert programme of arias and instrumental pieces, for soprano, violin and bass, by J.S. Bach, presented here in an innovative arrangement. The arias bring a consolidating balance to the sonata trio in which the text unfolds from the vocal line. From the purity of the trio by two, emerges a bounteous expression.