Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach, Carlo Farina, Georg Muffat, Andreas Anton Schmelzer, Johann Gottfried Walther, Johann Paul von Westhoff
Performer: Chouchane Siranossian, Leonardo García Alarcón, Balazs Maté
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Alpha
Catalogue: ALPHA758
Release: 2021
Size: 1.35 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Bach: Violin Sonata in G major, BWV1021
01. I. Adagio
02. II. Vivace
03. III. Largo
04. IV. Presto
05. Farina: Sonata quinta detta la farina
06. Walther: Sonata No. 6: Passagagli
07. Bach: Violin Sonata in C minor, BWV 1024: I. Adagio
08. Bach: Fugue in G minor for violin and basso continuo, BWV1026
09. Muffat: Sonata in D major
Bach: Violin Sonata in E minor, BWV1023
10. I. Ouverture
11. II. Adagio ma non tanto
12. III. Allemanda
13. IV. Gigue
14. Westhoff: Sonata III: Imitazione delle Campane
15. Schmelzer: Vitori der Christen
In the Europe of the first half of the seventeenth century, instrumental music became a source of sonic and expressive experimentation. Influenced by vocal rhetoric, composers sought to replace words with a new musical language. The virtuosity of the instrumentalists developed, as did invention, improvisation and the search for surprising sonorities. Along with the organ or the harpsichord, the violin was the instrument of choice for experimenting with these new techniques.
Italian and German composers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries such as Farina, Schmelzer, Mealli, Buxtehude, Biber, Pisendel and Bach vied with each other in imaginativeness… The violinist Chouchane Siranossian and the harpsichordist Leonardo García Alarcón – both loyal Alpha Classics artists – have chosen to explore this repertory, here including Bach’s sonatas BWV 1019, 1021 and 1023 among other pieces.