Bach Before Bach

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Release Date
November 12, 2021
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BACH, J.S.
    • PERFORMER
      Siranossian, Alarcon, Mate
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 12, 2021
    • UPC
      3760014197581
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ALPHA758
    • LABEL
      Alpha
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Adagio

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Chouchane Siranossian, Balazs Mate, Leonardo García Alarcón

    2. II. Vivace

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Chouchane Siranossian, Balazs Mate, Leonardo García Alarcón

    3. III. Largo

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Chouchane Siranossian, Balazs Mate, Leonardo García Alarcón

    4. IV. Presto

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Chouchane Siranossian, Balazs Mate, Leonardo García Alarcón

    5. Sonata detta la Farina

      Composer: Carlo Farina

      Performer: Chouchane Siranossian, Balazs Mate, Leonardo García Alarcón

    6. Scherzi da violino solo: Sonata No. 6 in C Major: Passacaglia

      Composer: Johann Jakob Walther

      Performer: Chouchane Siranossian, Balazs Mate, Leonardo García Alarcón

    7. Violin Sonata in C Minor, BWV 1024: I. Adagio

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Chouchane Siranossian, Balazs Mate, Leonardo García Alarcón

    8. Fugue in G Minor, BWV 1026

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Chouchane Siranossian, Balazs Mate, Leonardo García Alarcón

    9. Violin Sonata in D Major

      Composer: Georg Muffat

      Performer: Chouchane Siranossian, Balazs Mate, Leonardo García Alarcón

    10. I. Overture

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Chouchane Siranossian, Balazs Mate, Leonardo García Alarcón

    11. II. Adagio ma non tanto

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Chouchane Siranossian, Balazs Mate, Leonardo García Alarcón

    12. III. Allemanda

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Chouchane Siranossian, Balazs Mate, Leonardo García Alarcón

    13. IV. Gigue

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Chouchane Siranossian, Balazs Mate, Leonardo García Alarcón

    14. Violin Sonata No. 3 in D Minor: III. Imitatione delle Campane

      Composer: Johann Paul von Westhoff

      Performer: Chouchane Siranossian, Balazs Mate

    15. Violin Sonata in A Minor, "Victori der Christen" (after H.I.F. Biber's Tenth Rosary Sonata)

      Composer: Johann Heinrich Schmelzer

      Performer: Chouchane Siranossian, Balazs Mate, Leonardo García Alarcón


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.