You know when you encounter an ensemble name like Quadro Hypothesis that you are going to be in speculative territory, and so it is with this Italian-German release. On the program is music by Bach, and by Mozart transcribing or imitating Bach, all of it transcribed for a quartet consisting of a recorder, an unusual viol (the lyra viol or discant viol), a cello, and a theorbo or lute. Bach certainly transcribed his own music often, and although he never used an ensemble precisely like this one, the group works well enough ...
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You know when you encounter an ensemble name like Quadro Hypothesis that you are going to be in speculative territory, and so it is with this Italian-German release. On the program is music by Bach, and by Mozart transcribing or imitating Bach, all of it transcribed for a quartet consisting of a recorder, an unusual viol (the lyra viol or discant viol), a cello, and a theorbo or lute. Bach certainly transcribed his own music often, and although he never used an ensemble precisely like this one, the group works well enough for both trio-sonata and keyboard textures, and it's not out of the question that people played Bach this way in the eighteeth century. Historical performance per se, however, is not what the group is after. Instead, it takes as its point of departure Nikolaus Harnoncourt's contention that music and speech were closely linked in Baroque rhetoric, that players of the time intended to play "as if speaking," but that, paradoxically, music constituted a realm that could express the...
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