The sonatas for flute and continuo by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach date mostly from early in the composer's career. A few of them carry hints of the Sturm und Drang intensity that would become Bach's chief claim to fame, but many are light, galant works with a certain meditative quality. The flutes played on this recording by veteran Dutch ...
Thankfully, Sigiswald Kuijken doesn't feel the overwhelming urge to record every extant sacred cantata by J.S. Bach. That project would have consumed years of his life -- and at best only equaled the achievements of other, earlier explorers. By choosing to record only enough cantatas to span a single liturgical year of Sundays plus the major holy ...
Despite the available neat periodization of Johann Sebastian Bach's career according to his places of employment, the music of the young Bach, who as the title of this album indicates was above all a keyboard virtuoso, has not been much explored as such on programs and recordings. There are several reasons: some of Bach's music is not easily ...
The conception outlined in the booklet doesn't quite match what you get in the disc in this selection of Domenico Scarlatti keyboard sonatas by a young Belgian harpsichordist, Ewald Demeyere. Annotator W. Dean Sutcliffe uses as a straw man some 1928 remarks on Scarlatti by historian Cecil Gray, to the effect that "one may seek in vain for any ...
Better-known to history as a brilliant performer than as a composer, Michel Blavet is gradually receiving recognition for his sonatas for flute and basso continuo. This French Baroque master of the transverse flute promoted the instrument through his virtuoso playing, but his works appear to have been written mostly for pedagogical needs. This is ...
Johann Philipp Kirnberger, student of Bach, is known mostly as a theorist and musical commentator. Most of his works are for keyboard, the theorist's medium, and recordings of any of them remain infrequent. It's both a surprise and a pleasure, then, to discover this disc of flute works, originally issued in 1998, and to find that it's even more ...
Haydn's keyboard concertos combine two of his weaknesses: at best an adequate performer, he didn't write for the keyboard especially idiomatically, and for much of his career he didn't think in the dramatic terms that pushed the concerto forward as a form. This program of two harpsichord concertos, written around 1770 and 1766, respectively, with ...
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