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2020-08-07 07:38:04
Engaging dexterity: Bach's English Suites from the young Italian harpsichordist Paolo Zanzu
Bach English Suites; Paolo Zanzu; Musica Ficta Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 7 August 2020 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) Using a modern copy of a harpsichord by a maker known to Bach, this new recording of Bach's English Suites from a young Italian harpsichordist is a fine way to explore Bach's earliest major keyboard workLike much of Bach's music, one can use the word probably a lot when writing about his English Suites. We know little about when or why they were written, and even the origins of the name are something of a surmise. If they were indeed Bach's first major keyboard suites then they represent a remarkable marking of his territory, which would be explored in further keyboard suites leading to the magisterial late large-scale keyboard works. Players have recorded them on both piano and harpsichord on this new disc from Musica Ficta the young Italian […]
2020-04-29 07:20:22
Bach: Sonatas and Partitas - Tomás Cotik treads a thoughtful, intelligent middle way when approach these icons of the violin repertoire
Johann Sebastian Bach Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin; Tomás Cotik; Centaur Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 28 April 2020 Star rating: 3.5 (★★★½) A new account of Bach's great solo violin works treads a thoughtful way through the various interpretative possibilitiesJohann Sebastian Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin are works which every violinist needs to approach. On this new disc, from Centaur, violinist Tomás Cotik brings has some thoughtful solutions to the questions which every performer must answer about these works. The tradition of virtuoso, polyphonic writing for the violin grew in Germany in the 17th century with Biber, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, and the composers of the Dresden school – Johann Jakob Walther and Johann Paul von Westhoff. This was repertoire that Bach would have known and it is thought that he would have encountered Westhoff in Weimar where Westhoff was court musician from […]
2016-07-09 01:00:00
[…] 5:02 [06] Adagio - Quasi allegro - Allegro assai - Adagio 8:18 Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano, H. 24 (1919) 11:56 (dedicated to Fernande Capelle) [07] Allegro cantabile 4:48 [08] Larghetto […]
2015-10-16 15:10:15
[…] David Heinichen but gradually took over Heinichen’s responsibilities as the latter’s health declined. After Heinichen died in 1729, Zelenka applied for the now-vacant post of Kapellmeister but it was given instead (in 1733) to the eminent opera composer Johann Adolf Hasse, reflecting the court’s fashionable interest in opera as opposed to the liturgical music that was Zelenka’s forte. Instead, in 1735, Zelenka was given the title of “church composer” – “Compositeur of the Royal Court Capelle” which none other than Johann Sebastian Bach himself had applied for in 1733 and did in fact receive it in 1736, replacing Zelenka, who was again disappointed by the court’s decision; but despite this he continued to compose assiduously. Such social failures might have turned him inward to exercise his free creative spirit and produce innovative work with unique qualities. J.S. Bach held Zelenka in high esteem, as evidenced by a letter of 13 […]
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