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Bach Before Bach
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Bach Before Bach

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Details

Composer
BACH, J.S.
Artist
Siranossian, Alarcon, Mate
Format
CD
Label
Alpha
Released
Nov 12, 2021
Catalog #
ALPHA758
UPC
3760014197581

About

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.

Tracklist 15 tracks

  1. 1 I. Adagio 03:25
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Adagio
    Duration
    03:25
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Chouchane Siranossian, Balazs Mate, Leonardo García Alarcón
  2. 2 II. Vivace 00:49
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Vivace
    Duration
    00:49
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Chouchane Siranossian, Balazs Mate, Leonardo García Alarcón
  3. 3 III. Largo 02:33
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Largo
    Duration
    02:33
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Chouchane Siranossian, Balazs Mate, Leonardo García Alarcón
  4. 4 IV. Presto 01:18
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Presto
    Duration
    01:18
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Chouchane Siranossian, Balazs Mate, Leonardo García Alarcón
  5. 5 Sonata detta la Farina 07:50
    Track
    5
    Title
    Sonata detta la Farina
    Duration
    07:50
    Composer
    Carlo Farina
    Performer
    Chouchane Siranossian, Balazs Mate, Leonardo García Alarcón
  6. 6 Scherzi da violino solo: Sonata No. 6 in C Major: Passacaglia 08:37
    Track
    6
    Title
    Scherzi da violino solo: Sonata No. 6 in C Major: Passacaglia
    Duration
    08:37
    Composer
    Johann Jakob Walther
    Performer
    Chouchane Siranossian, Balazs Mate, Leonardo García Alarcón
  7. 7 Violin Sonata in C Minor, BWV 1024: I. Adagio 02:17
    Track
    7
    Title
    Violin Sonata in C Minor, BWV 1024: I. Adagio
    Duration
    02:17
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Chouchane Siranossian, Balazs Mate, Leonardo García Alarcón
  8. 8 Fugue in G Minor, BWV 1026 04:12
    Track
    8
    Title
    Fugue in G Minor, BWV 1026
    Duration
    04:12
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Chouchane Siranossian, Balazs Mate, Leonardo García Alarcón
  9. 9 Violin Sonata in D Major 11:40
    Track
    9
    Title
    Violin Sonata in D Major
    Duration
    11:40
    Composer
    Georg Muffat
    Performer
    Chouchane Siranossian, Balazs Mate, Leonardo García Alarcón
  10. 10 I. Overture 01:02
    Track
    10
    Title
    I. Overture
    Duration
    01:02
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Chouchane Siranossian, Balazs Mate, Leonardo García Alarcón
  11. 11 II. Adagio ma non tanto 02:49
    Track
    11
    Title
    II. Adagio ma non tanto
    Duration
    02:49
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Chouchane Siranossian, Balazs Mate, Leonardo García Alarcón
  12. 12 III. Allemanda 03:20
    Track
    12
    Title
    III. Allemanda
    Duration
    03:20
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Chouchane Siranossian, Balazs Mate, Leonardo García Alarcón
  13. 13 IV. Gigue 02:38
    Track
    13
    Title
    IV. Gigue
    Duration
    02:38
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Chouchane Siranossian, Balazs Mate, Leonardo García Alarcón
  14. 14 Violin Sonata No. 3 in D Minor: III. Imitatione delle Campane 02:08
    Track
    14
    Title
    Violin Sonata No. 3 in D Minor: III. Imitatione delle Campane
    Duration
    02:08
    Composer
    Johann Paul von Westhoff
    Performer
    Chouchane Siranossian, Balazs Mate
  15. 15 Violin Sonata in A Minor, "Victori der Christen" (after H.I.F. Biber's Tenth Rosary Sonata) 09:35
    Track
    15
    Title
    Violin Sonata in A Minor, "Victori der Christen" (after H.I.F. Biber's Tenth Rosary Sonata)
    Duration
    09:35
    Composer
    Johann Heinrich Schmelzer
    Performer
    Chouchane Siranossian, Balazs Mate, Leonardo García Alarcón