In 1997, Winter&Winter issued their first production with Bach's solo cello suites. Producer Stefan Winter and Paolo Beschi developed this sound project in Beschi's house at Lake Como so that the performance for a concert audience took place with different rules from those for the creation of a recording. This record was intended for the attentive and curious listener. As a result, Winter & Winter have produced 200 new productions since.

It might be expected that jazz would be the mainstay of Winter&Winter and therefore it might seem surprising that baroque music is a focal point in the label's works. However, Stefan Winter's roots lie in the area of early music. In his youth he visited the music boarding school St Gotthard in Niederaltaich. Dr Konrad Ruhland teaches there. In the '60s and '70s, Ruhland, Nikolaus Harnoncourt and other great artists developed the historical performance practice of renaissance and baroque music. Winter experienced the music of  the Leonhardt Consort and the Concentus Musicus Wien with Il Giardino Armonico, founded in 1985, belonging to the next generation after Harnoncourt and Beschi being a founding member.

15 years on, Winter&Winter publishes the 201st album 'Baroque Music in the 21st Century'. Uri Caine's version of Variation 18 from the 'Goldberg Variations' featuring Ghielmi's gamba quartet and Caine's improvisation on the Silbermann piano leads the journey through the world of baroque music from the 20th century to the threshold of the 21st century. The music is recorded at the Villa Medici-Giulini.

Producer Stefan Winter looks for these unconventional thinkers, who confidently transform the ancient scores into their own music and who sometimes also cross the boundaries to jazz. Uri Caine improvises with Vittorio Ghielmi, Ernst Reijseger plays Bach, Teodoro Anzellotti discovers the baroque accordion, Freitagsakademie abducts the Brandenburg Concertos from the concert hall and Aarón Zapico transforms sorrow, sadness, passion, love and happiness into sound.

With youthful verve: the baroque era in the here and now.

Contents:
1. Contrapunctus 1 (Die Kunst der Fuge) [J S Bach]
2. Variation 18, Canon at the 6th (Die Goldberg Variationen) [J S Bach]
3. Aria from 'Mi palpita il cor' (HWV 132) [G F Handel]
4. Gagliarda Prima [G Frescobaldi]
5. La Couperin [A Forqueray]
6. Variation for cello solo (Die Goldberg Variationen) [J S Bach]
7. Variatio I. a I Clav. (Die Goldberg Variationen) [J S Bach]
8. Fantazia 23rd of June 1680 [Henry Purcell]
9. Variation 25 (Die Goldberg Variationen) [J S Bach]
10. Allegro from Brandenburg Concerto No.3 [J S Bach]
11. Largo from 'Pur al fin gentil Viola' [A Ariosti]
12. Passacaglia from 'Libro IV d’intavolatura di chitarrone' [G G Kapsberger]
13. Allegro non molto from 'Winter' (The Four Seasons) [A Vivaldi]
14. Largo from 'Winter' (The Four Seasons) [A Vivaldi]
15. Allegro from 'Keyboard Sonata K.248' [D Scarlatti]
16. Sonata seconda à sopran solo [D Castello]
17. 'Tönet, ihr Pauken!' (Das Weihnachtsoratorium) [J S Bach]
18. Prélude from 'Cello Suite IV' [J S Bach]