Capella De La Torre & Katharina Bäuml - Water Music, Tales of Nymphs and Sirens (2015)

For the ancient Greeks, the water did not come simply from the ground; No, it had divine beings - the water nymphs. These legendary nymphs inhabit also in Renaissance and Baroque arts as mythical remnants of a lost world where all natural phenomena always had a divine nature.

Musical "stories of nymphs and sirens" presents the Capella de la Torre on their new CD "Water Music" - a panorama of water beyond Handel: there are countless other great water music, from all eras and from all over Europe. The issue of water lit the Capella de la Torre in all facets of: As the home of mythical animals like the swan, as a poetic picture full of erotic allusions in the myths about nymphs and sirens, or as a metaphor for the uncertainties of life


An impressive breadth of perspectives from which the Capella de la Torre the theme "Water" considered - it finds its reflection in the complexity of interpretations: dances with great timbre palette and percussive accents contrast with the elaborate program of vocal works; wild improvisation encounters spiritual retreats; and in the vocals create the soprano Cécile Kampenaers and Altus Benno Schachtner the great balancing act, at the same time to shine as soloists and to integrate into the ensemble sound. A CD that draws in the music as the mermaids their victims into the water.