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J.S. Bach: Trio Sonatas BWV 525-530 / Tomadin
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J.S. Bach: Trio Sonatas BWV 525-530 / Tomadin

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Details

Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach
Artist
Manuel Tomadin
Format
CD
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
Jun 23, 2023
Catalog #
BRI96438
UPC
5028421964386

About

Highpoints of virtuosity in Bach’s output and the Baroque organ repertoire, in new recordings by an organist with a rich catalogue of success on Brilliant Classics to his credit. As well as a host of obscure composers, Manuel Tomadin has recorded many central figures in the organ repertoire, from Buxtehude to Rheinberger. His Bach discography includes the Leipziger Choräle, BWV 651-667 (94556) and an original ‘Harmonic Seasons’ album (95786) pairing preludes and fugues with chorales that tell a story of rebirth and quiescence through the four seasons. For his latest album, he turns to undisputed highlights of the repertoire: the collection of six sonatas in three parts which Bach compiled in the late 1720s. By then he had settled into his post as Capellmeister in Leipzig, and with this set of works was evidently aiming to leave his contribution to the already rich literature of trio sonatas which had originated some decades earlier in Italy and subsequently spread across Europe, as a means of crossing sacred and secular divides with music conceived for performance by either a single keyboard player or a chamber group of musicians Being Bach, however, he determined to produce not merely another volume in the library. While he drew the material for the trio sonatas from earlier pieces, he refined and adapted them with all the ingenuity and harmonic invention at his disposal, making the finished set among the most demanding pieces ever written for the organ, then or now. The trio sonatas are accordingly often performed by a trio of chamber musicians, but there is a special freshness and virtuosity to be savoured when they are played, as here and as originally intended, by a single organist. As Manuel Tomadin notes in his valuable booklet introduction, the six sonatas run the gamut of expressive feeling, from a gravity of pathos in the central Largo of the C minor Sonata No.2 to the irrepressible joy of the finale to the C major No.5. He has made these new recordings on an instrument with an excellent Bachian pedigree: the Bosch/Schnitger organ (1686/1720) of the Hervormde church in the Dutch town of Vollenhove, and the booklet includes a full specification for the instrument.

Tracklist 18 tracks

  1. 1 I. — 03:49
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. —
    Duration
    03:49
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Manuel Tomadin
  2. 2 II. Adagio 04:50
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Adagio
    Duration
    04:50
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Manuel Tomadin
  3. 3 III. Allegro 04:12
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Allegro
    Duration
    04:12
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Manuel Tomadin
  4. 4 I. Vivace 04:06
    Track
    4
    Title
    I. Vivace
    Duration
    04:06
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Manuel Tomadin
  5. 5 II. Largo 04:18
    Track
    5
    Title
    II. Largo
    Duration
    04:18
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Manuel Tomadin
  6. 6 III. Allegro 04:35
    Track
    6
    Title
    III. Allegro
    Duration
    04:35
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Manuel Tomadin
  7. 7 I. Andante 05:48
    Track
    7
    Title
    I. Andante
    Duration
    05:48
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Manuel Tomadin
  8. 8 II. Adagio e dolce 04:30
    Track
    8
    Title
    II. Adagio e dolce
    Duration
    04:30
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Manuel Tomadin
  9. 9 III. Vivace 04:08
    Track
    9
    Title
    III. Vivace
    Duration
    04:08
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Manuel Tomadin
  10. 10 I. Adagio - Vivace 03:12
    Track
    10
    Title
    I. Adagio - Vivace
    Duration
    03:12
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Manuel Tomadin
  11. 11 II. Andante 05:38
    Track
    11
    Title
    II. Andante
    Duration
    05:38
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Manuel Tomadin
  12. 12 III. Un poco allegro 03:03
    Track
    12
    Title
    III. Un poco allegro
    Duration
    03:03
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Manuel Tomadin
  13. 13 I. Allegro 05:15
    Track
    13
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    05:15
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Manuel Tomadin
  14. 14 II. Largo 06:12
    Track
    14
    Title
    II. Largo
    Duration
    06:12
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Manuel Tomadin
  15. 15 III. Allegro 04:00
    Track
    15
    Title
    III. Allegro
    Duration
    04:00
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Manuel Tomadin
  16. 16 I. Vivace 04:12
    Track
    16
    Title
    I. Vivace
    Duration
    04:12
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Manuel Tomadin
  17. 17 II. Lento 04:11
    Track
    17
    Title
    II. Lento
    Duration
    04:11
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Manuel Tomadin
  18. 18 III. Allegro 03:45
    Track
    18
    Title
    III. Allegro
    Duration
    03:45
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Manuel Tomadin