Composer: Friedrich Fasch
Performer: Tempesta di Mare
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Chandos
Catalogue: CHAN0829W
Release: 2024
Size: 1.29 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Ouverture-Suite in E Minor, FaWV K:e1
01. I. Ouverture
02. II. Aria
03. III. Bourée
04. IV. Aria. Largo
05. V. Gavotte bien modéré
06. VI. Menuet I – Menuet II
Violin Concerto in G Major, FaWV L:G6
07. I. Allegro
08. II. Largo
09. III. Allegro
Sinfonia in B-Flat Major, FaWV M:B1
10. I. Allegro
11. II. Andante
12. III. Alla breve
13. IV. Un poco allegro
Ouverture-Suite in D Major, FaWV K:D16
14. I. Ouverture
15. II. Air
16. III. Bouree
17. IV. Air
18. V. Gavotte
19. VI. Menuet
This volume of modern premières of works by Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688 – 1758) was recorded in concert, the programme opening the 2023 International Fasch Festival, in Zerbst, the city in which he was Capellmeister to the princely court. Tempesta di Mare has had an ongoing love affair with the orchestral music of Fasch that goes back to 2007, when the band received images of manuscript part books for several as-yet unpublished orchestral works held at the Dresden Library. They have been investigating, discovering, and performing works by Fasch every season since then, and recording those that have not already been recorded – this album is the fourth volume of such discoveries. One of the things that fascinate Tempesta di Mare about the music of Fasch, which goes beyond the craftsmanship, expressivity, inventiveness, and wit, is his very distinctive voice. Plenty of other central European composers of his time were content if their music could sound like that of Vivaldi, Corelli, or Telemann. Those influences remain clearly present in his music, but Fasch does not sound like any of them – nor, for that matter, like Bach, Handel, or any other of his contemporaries familiar to us.