Baron: Music for Lute Solo & Lute and Recorder / Hofstotter, Korchynska, Bil

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Label
Brilliant Classics
Release Date
June 24, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Ernst Gottlieb Baron
    • PERFORMER
      Bernhard Hofstotter, Bozhena Korchynska, Mariya Bil
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      June 24, 2022
    • UPC
      5028421960807
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI96080
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Adagio

      Composer: Ernst Gottlieb Baron

      Performer: Bozhena Korchynska, Bernhard Hofstötter

    2. II. Allegro

      Composer: Ernst Gottlieb Baron

      Performer: Bozhena Korchynska, Bernhard Hofstötter

    3. III. Siciliana

      Composer: Ernst Gottlieb Baron

      Performer: Bozhena Korchynska, Bernhard Hofstötter

    4. IV. Gigue

      Composer: Ernst Gottlieb Baron

      Performer: Bozhena Korchynska, Bernhard Hofstötter

    5. I. Concerto

      Composer: Ernst Gottlieb Baron

      Performer: Bozhena Korchynska, Mariya Bil, Bernhard Hofstötter

    6. II. Largo

      Composer: Ernst Gottlieb Baron

      Performer: Bozhena Korchynska, Mariya Bil, Bernhard Hofstötter

    7. III. Allegro

      Composer: Ernst Gottlieb Baron

      Performer: Bozhena Korchynska, Mariya Bil, Bernhard Hofstötter

    8. I. Fantasia

      Composer: Ernst Gottlieb Baron

      Performer: Bernhard Hofstötter

    9. II. Allegro

      Composer: Ernst Gottlieb Baron

      Performer: Bernhard Hofstötter

    10. III. Bouree

      Composer: Ernst Gottlieb Baron

      Performer: Bernhard Hofstötter

    11. IV. Aria

      Composer: Ernst Gottlieb Baron

      Performer: Bernhard Hofstötter

    12. V. Rondeau

      Composer: Ernst Gottlieb Baron

      Performer: Bernhard Hofstötter

    13. VI. Tempo di menuet

      Composer: Ernst Gottlieb Baron

      Performer: Bernhard Hofstötter

    14. I. Allemande

      Composer: Ernst Gottlieb Baron

      Performer: Bozhena Korchynska, Bernhard Hofstötter

    15. II. Courante

      Composer: Ernst Gottlieb Baron

      Performer: Bozhena Korchynska, Bernhard Hofstötter

    16. III. March

      Composer: Ernst Gottlieb Baron

      Performer: Bozhena Korchynska, Bernhard Hofstötter

    17. IV. Menuet avec trio

      Composer: Ernst Gottlieb Baron

      Performer: Bozhena Korchynska, Bernhard Hofstötter

    18. V. Loure

      Composer: Ernst Gottlieb Baron

      Performer: Bozhena Korchynska, Bernhard Hofstötter

    19. VI. Gigue

      Composer: Ernst Gottlieb Baron

      Performer: Bozhena Korchynska, Bernhard Hofstötter

    20. I. Entrée

      Composer: Ernst Gottlieb Baron

      Performer: Bernhard Hofstötter

    21. II. Poco allegro

      Composer: Ernst Gottlieb Baron

      Performer: Bernhard Hofstötter

    22. III. Sarabande adagio

      Composer: Ernst Gottlieb Baron

      Performer: Bernhard Hofstötter

    23. IV. Menuet

      Composer: Ernst Gottlieb Baron

      Performer: Bernhard Hofstötter

    24. I. Concerto

      Composer: Ernst Gottlieb Baron

      Performer: Bozhena Korchynska, Mariya Bil, Bernhard Hofstötter

    25. II. Molto adagio

      Composer: Ernst Gottlieb Baron

      Performer: Bozhena Korchynska, Mariya Bil, Bernhard Hofstötter

    26. III. Vivace

      Composer: Ernst Gottlieb Baron

      Performer: Bozhena Korchynska, Mariya Bil, Bernhard Hofstötter

    27. I. Allegro

      Composer: Ernst Gottlieb Baron

      Performer: Bozhena Korchynska, Bernhard Hofstötter

    28. II. Adagio

      Composer: Ernst Gottlieb Baron

      Performer: Bozhena Korchynska, Bernhard Hofstötter

    29. III. Presto

      Composer: Ernst Gottlieb Baron

      Performer: Bozhena Korchynska, Bernhard Hofstötter


Though the music of Ernst Gottlieb Baron (1696–1760) is scarcely known to the wider public, the complete edition of his surviving compositions presented by Jan W.J. Burgers in 2005 offers an excellent opportunity to study and perform the works of this late Baroque master and restore them to the status they deserve. Though it can be assumed a large portion of his work was lost, with around a dozen suites for solo lute and ten ensemble pieces with obbligato lute, Baron’s extant oeuvre is nonetheless substantial. In the solo compositions, we predominantly find short, mostly two-part pieces in a late Baroque idiom. While these ‘simple’ suites, likely intended for pupils, offer little justification for Baron’s contemporaries having ranked him among the most important German composers of his day, the solo compositions also include works of a very different quality. The first four movements of the Suite [Partie] in F recorded here draw on wide-ranging melodic arcs and expressive modulations. The Suite [Sonata] in B flat is attributed by the original copyist to Silvius Leopold Weiss, and to Baron only by a later copyist. But it has been rightly pointed out that the presumed authorship of Weiss does not stand up to a stylistic comparison. Baron’s ensemble works include eight suites or sonatas for lute and melody instrument with a cello at times added as a bass part. In some of these works the treatment of the lute part is particularly virtuosic, assigning the lute an important role in the melodic composition. Baron’s surviving chamber music shows him as a master of the ‘galant’ style and offers attractive and original music from a time in which the lute was already losing ground before disappearing completely from concert life in the second half of the 18th century, soon after Baron’s death.