Tini Mathot / Ton Koopman
C.P.E. Bach 300 years / Fantasia & 6 Organ Sonatas
- Type CD
- Label Challenge Classics
- UPC 0608917266825
- Catalog number CC 72668
- Release date 31 October 2014
About the album
In his day, C.P.E. Bach was often characterised as being an ‘original genius’. His compositions bear striking witness to this fertile originality. For a longtime C.P.E. Bach was viewed as the most renowned Sturm und Drang composer. However the free fantasy, so fabulously represented by C.P.E. Bach, is a phenomenon whose roots date back at least a century earlier. Likewise, the music’s improvisatory character, firmly grounded in a formidable improvisatory ability and C.P.E. Bach’s exceptionally unique harmonic insight, was already a prominent feature in music written long before the Sturm und Drang period, that of Johann Jakob Froberger and the composers who employed the Stylus Phantasticus (Dieterich Buxtehude, Nicolaus Bruhns and the young Johann Sebastian Bach). Rather than attempting to categorise C.P.E. Bach as belonging to a particular stylistic period, it is far better to view him as a highly individual and original composer. His keyboard music forms a unique oeuvre, without any equivalent in his day (incidentally, the word keyboard is used here to refer to clavichord, fortepiano and harpsichord!). Freedom permeates this music, along with unexpected harmonic modulations, rhetoric, virtuosity, special effects, precisely notated articulations, every dynamic gradation, unlimited variety, abrupt stops and tempo changes.
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11Sonata in a minor Wq 70/4 Allegro assai
04:51 -
12Sonata in a minor Wq 70/4 Adagio
03:49 -
13Sonata in a minor Wq 70/4 Allegro
03:21 -
14Sonata in F major Wq 70/3 Allegro
04:44 -
15Sonata in F major Wq 70/3 Largo
02:45 -
16Sonata in F major Wq 70/3 Allegretto
03:21 -
17Sonata in g minor Wq 70/6 Allegro moderato
06:34 -
18Sonata in g minor Wq 70/6 Adagio
02:48 -
19Sonata in g minor Wq 70/6 Allegro
04:34 -
110Sonata in D major Wq 70/5 Allegro di molto
06:40 -
111Sonata in D major Wq 70/5 Adagio e mesto
03:37 -
112Sonata in D major Wq 70/5 Allegro
03:52 -
113Sonata in B-flat major Wq 70/2 Allegro
03:18 -
114Sonata in B-flat major Wq 70/2 Arioso
02:29 -
115Sonata in B-flat major Wq 70/2 Allegro
02:15 -
116Sonata in d minor Wq 69 Allegro
03:54 -
117Sonata in d minor Wq 69 Andante
02:42 -
118Sonata in d minor Wq 69 Allegro
11:48 -
21Fantasia in f-sharp minor (H 300, Wq 67)
10:32 -
22Rondo in G major (H 271, Wq 57/3)
05:26 -
2312 Variations on Folie d’Espagne (H 263, Wq 118/9)
08:22 -
24Fantasia in C major (H 284, Wq 59/6)
09:14 -
25Rondo in E major (H 265, Wq 57/1)
09:25 -
26Fantasia in B-flat major (H 289, Wq 61/3)
06:55 -
27Sonata in f minor (H 173, Wq 57/6) Allegro assai
05:34 -
28Sonata in f minor (H 173, Wq 57/6) Andante
04:50 -
29Sonata in f minor (H 173, Wq 57/6) Andantino grazioso
06:20 -
210Rondo in D major (H 261, Wq 56/3)
07:37
Ton Koopman turns 75 and ABO 40 years anniversary
24-09-2019
Ton Koopman celebrates 75th birthday together with Johann Sebastian
The renowned Ton Koopman is celebrating its 75th birthday this fall. Koopman is one of the last great early music pioneers of the first hour. Still as energetic as 40 years ago, when he founded his Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra (ABO), he and his ensemble are celebrating the achievement of this crown year. At the concert on October 4 in the Muziekgebouw aan ...