Composer: Charles François Dieupart, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Thanos Sakellaridis, Johann Hermann Schein, Antonio Vivaldi
Performer: Max Volbers, Alfia Bakieva, Jonathan Ponet, Martin Schneider, Arisa Yoshida, Axel Wolf, Robert Smith, Anne-Suse Enßle, Alexander von Heißen, Elisabeth Wirth, Felix Gutschi, Jonathan Volbers
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Genuin
Catalogue: GEN22804
Release: 2022
Size: 1.28 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Volbers: Recorder Concerto in C Major “Pasticcio” (After J.S. Bach’s BWV 1053 & BWV 1042)
01. I. Allegro
02. II. Siciliano. Adagio
03. III. Allego
04. Volbers: Sonata sopra “Hor che’l ciel e la terra e’l vento tace” (After C. Monteverdi’s SV 147)
05. Palestrina: Pulchra es amica mea
06. Sakellaridis: Please enter the Underground
07. Volbers: Fantasia on Mr. Purcell’s Chacony (After H. Purcell’s Z. 629)
Dieupart: Recorder Suite No.3 in B minor (Arr. M. Volbers)
08. I. Ouverture
09. II. Allemande
10. III. Courante
11. IV. Sarabande
12. V. Gavotte
13. VI. Menuet
14. VII. Gigue
15. Palestrina: Vestiva i colli
Schein: Fontana d’Israel
16. No. 25, Lehre uns bedenken (Arr. M. Volbers for Recorder Ensemble)
Vivaldi: Violin Concerto in G Major, RV 312 (Arr. M. Volbers for Recorder, Strings & Harpsichord)
17. I. Allegro molto
18. II. Larghetto
19. III. Allegro
Musicians in the Baroque period had to reinvent themselves time and again: their repertoire was not fixed; instead, they improvised, adapted, and transcribed – something that was not seen as theft but as a high virtue! Recorder player Max Volbers, the winner of the 2021 German Music Competition, revives this tradition on his solo debut recording with the label Genuin: he gathers top-class musicians around him for the recording of his own arrangements, paraphrases, and pastiche of works by Bach, Monteverdi, and Vivaldi. Works that are partly familiar to us, but which we have never heard before, full of soul, inspired, and knowledgeably performed!