Composer: Johann Jakob Froberger
Performer: Gilbert Rowland
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Athene
Release: 2021
Size: 2.46 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
CD 01
Suite in D Major, FbWV 620
01. I. Méditation sur ma mort future
02. II. Gigue
03. III. Courante
04. IV. Sarabande
Suite in A Minor, FbWV 610
05. I. Allemande
06. II. Gigue
07. III. Courante
08. IV. Sarabande
Suite in F Minor, FbWV 653 “Die Hochstädter Leuchte”
09. I. Allemande
10. II. Courante
11. III. Sarabande & Double
12. IV. Gigue
Suite in C Major, FbWV 605
13. I. Allemande
14. II. Courante
15. III. Sarabande & Double
Suite in E Minor, FbWV 643
16. I. Allemande
17. II. Courante
18. III. Aria
19. IV. Sarabande
20. V. Gigue
Suite in D Minor, FbWV 626
21. I. Allemande
22. II. Courante
23. III. Sarabande
24. IV. Gigue
CD 02
Suite in G Major, FbWV 616
01I. Allemande
02II. Gigue
03III. Courante
04IV. Sarabande
Suite in E Minor, FbWV 607
05. I. Allemande
06. II. Gigue
07. III. Courante
08. IV. Sarabande
Suite in G Minor, FbWV 641
09. I. Allemande
10. II. Courante
11. III. Sarabande
12. IV. Gigue
Suite in B Major, FbWV 655 “Der naseweise Orgelprobierer”
13. I. Allemande
14. II. Courante
15. III. Sarabande & Double
16. IV. Gigue
Suite in D Minor, FbWV 625
17. I. Allemande
18. II. Courante I
19. III. Courante II
20. IV. Sarabande & Double
Suite in G Major, FbWV 603
21. I. Allemande
22. II. Courante
23. III. Sarabande
24. IV. Gigue
Gilbert Rowland is one of Europe’s most senior and accomplished exponents of the harpsichord. Following his critically acclaimed 6-album series of the Harpsichord Suites of Haendel for Divine Art, he moved to the Athene imprint which now specializes in baroque music and “period” instruments for his well-received album of Suites by Johann Mattheson and his first volume of Froberger’s Suites.
This album is the second volume in a projected complete survey of the Harpsichord Suites by Johann Jakob Froberger, whose organ and harpsichord music is individual in nature and ground breaking – he was one of the first composers to settle the “dance-movement” style of “Suite” taken up by Couperin, Bach, and Haendel among many others. There are twelve Suites in this collection. Gilbert Rowland plays a 2-manual French style harpsichord made by Andrew Wooderson after an instrument by Goemans (Paris, 1750).