Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Café Zimmermann
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Alpha
Catalogue: ALPHA766
Release: 2021
Size: 1.46 GB
Recovery: +3%
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Bach JS: Cantata BWV29 ‘Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir’
01. Sinfonia in D Major
Bach CPE: Trio sonata in B-Flat Major, Wq. 161 / 2
02. I. Allegro
03. II. Adagio ma non troppo
04. III. Allegretto
Mozart: Adagio and Fugue KV 404a
05. Adagio e dolce (After Sonata No.3 in D Minor, BWV 527 by Johann Sebastian Bach)
06. Fugue – Allegro (After ‘The Art of Fugue’, BWV 1080 by Johann Sebastian Bach)
07. Bach JS: Wir danken Dir, Gott, BWV 29: Aria ‘Hallelluja, Stärk’ und Macht’
08. Bach JS: Himmelskönig, sei wilkommen, BWV 182: Sinfonia in G Major
Bach JS: Cantata BWV169 ‘Gott soll allein mein Herze haben’
09. Aria ‘Gott soll allein mein Herze haben’
10. Bach JS: Schwingt freudig euch empor, BWV 36: Aria ‘Auch mit gedämpften, schwachen Stimmen’
11. Bach JS: Ein ungefärbt Gemüthe, BWV 24: Aria ‘Ein ungefärbt Gemüthe’
Bach JS: Sonate sopr’il Soggetto Reale, BWV 1079
12. I. Largo
13. II. Allegro
14. III. Andante
15. IV. Allegro
16. Bach JS: Vor deinen Thron tret ich hiermit, BWV 668
Johann Sebastian Bach has made the reputation of Café Zimmermann ever since the ensemble was formed in 1999. This new recording presents the music of the Leipzig Kantor from a different angle, that of the notebooks in which musicians wrote down pieces and movements they particularly liked. This recording brings together works composed by Bach in the late 1740s which may be described as intimate in character, including the famous trio sonata from his Musical Offering. The Baroque idiom of this ‘experimental’ sonata is contextualised by the innovative style developed by his son Carl Philipp Emanuel in one of his own trio sonatas. A number of arias by J. S. Bach are also presented here with exclusively instrumental forces. Under the direction of violinist Pablo Valetti and harpsichordist Céline Frisch, the ensemble even ventures into Mozartian territory with the Aria and Fugue K404a, taken from two pieces by Bach that Mozart himself had annotated and arranged in his own musical notebook. Finally, a chorale that Bach was particularly fond of, a threepart fugue played here by harpsichord and flute. Carl Philipp Emanuel had it printed at the end of his father’s musical testament, The Art of Fugue: ‘Before thy throne I now appear’.