Kaori Uemura, Ricardo Rodriguez Miranda, Aline Zylberajch

The yamato word for mirror, 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.

• Tobias Hume: Good againe aus "The First Part of Ayres, Pollish and Others"
  +Marin Marais: Prelude en harpegement aus "5e livre de pieces de viole, Suite F-Dur"; La fougade aus "4e livre de pieces de viole, Suite d'un gout etranger"; Fantaisie aus "2e livre de pieces de viole, Suite A-Dur"
  +Johann Sebastian Bach: Gambensonate BWV 1028; Andante aus dem Italienischen Konzert BWV 971
  +Charles Dolle: Premiere Suitte
  +Henry Purcell: When I am laid in earth aus "Dido & Aeneas"
  +Francois Couperin: Pompe funebre. Tres gravement aus "Pieces de Violes, Deuxieme Suite"