Scheidemann: Keyboard Music

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Brilliant Classics
Release Date
January 19, 2018
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      SCHEIDEMANN, HEINRICH
    • PERFORMER
      Joseph Rassam
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 19, 2018
    • UPC
      5028421954271
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI95427
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Praeambulum in E Minor, WV 38

      Composer: Heinrich Scheidemann

      Performer: Joseph Rassam

    2. Versus 1

      Composer: Heinrich Scheidemann

      Performer: Joseph Rassam

    3. Versus 2

      Composer: Heinrich Scheidemann

      Performer: Joseph Rassam

    4. Cantzoenn in G Major

      Composer: Heinrich Scheidemann

      Performer: Joseph Rassam

    5. Versus 1

      Composer: Heinrich Scheidemann

      Performer: Joseph Rassam

    6. Versus 2

      Composer: Heinrich Scheidemann

      Performer: Joseph Rassam

    7. Versus 3 and 4

      Composer: Heinrich Scheidemann

      Performer: Joseph Rassam

    8. Praeambulum in G Major, WV 73

      Composer: Heinrich Scheidemann

      Performer: Joseph Rassam

    9. Toccata in G Major, WV 43

      Composer: Heinrich Scheidemann

      Performer: Joseph Rassam

    10. Versus primus et secundus

      Composer: Heinrich Scheidemann

      Performer: Joseph Rassam

    11. Versus tertius et secundus

      Composer: Heinrich Scheidemann

      Performer: Joseph Rassam

    12. Prima pars

      Composer: Heinrich Scheidemann

      Performer: Joseph Rassam

    13. Secunda pars

      Composer: Heinrich Scheidemann

      Performer: Joseph Rassam

    14. Versus 1: Pedaliter

      Composer: Heinrich Scheidemann

      Performer: Joseph Rassam

    15. Versus 2: auf 2 clavir. Pedaliter

      Composer: Heinrich Scheidemann

      Performer: Joseph Rassam

    16. Versus 3

      Composer: Heinrich Scheidemann

      Performer: Joseph Rassam

    17. Praeambulum in G Minor, WV 41

      Composer: Heinrich Scheidemann

      Performer: Joseph Rassam

    18. Vater unser im Himmelreich

      Composer: Heinrich Scheidemann

      Performer: Joseph Rassam

    19. Fantasia in D Minor, WV 83

      Composer: Heinrich Scheidemann

      Performer: Joseph Rassam

    20. Jesus Christus, unser Heiland, der von uns II (5 variations)

      Composer: Heinrich Scheidemann

      Performer: Joseph Rassam

    21. Praeambulum in D Minor, WV 33

      Composer: Heinrich Scheidemann

      Performer: Joseph Rassam

    22. Fuga in D Minor, WV 84

      Composer: Heinrich Scheidemann

      Performer: Joseph Rassam

    23. Allemand in D Minor, WV 114, "Franzosischer"

      Composer: Heinrich Scheidemann

      Performer: Joseph Rassam

    24. Courant and Variations in D Minor (after O. Gibbons)

      Composer: Heinrich Scheidemann

      Performer: Joseph Rassam

    25. Omnia quae fecisti nobis Domine, WV 54 (after O. de Lassus)

      Composer: Heinrich Scheidemann

      Performer: Joseph Rassam

    26. Ballet and Variations in F Major, WV 112

      Composer: Heinrich Scheidemann

      Performer: Joseph Rassam

    27. Canzona in F Major, WV 44

      Composer: Heinrich Scheidemann

      Performer: Joseph Rassam

    28. Mio cor se vera sei Salamandra, WV 105

      Composer: Heinrich Scheidemann

      Performer: Joseph Rassam

    29. Courant and 2 Variations in A Minor, WV 130

      Composer: Heinrich Scheidemann

      Performer: Joseph Rassam

    30. Fantasia in G Major, WV 86

      Composer: Heinrich Scheidemann

      Performer: Joseph Rassam

    31. Mascarata and Variatio in G Major, WV 110

      Composer: Heinrich Scheidemann

      Performer: Joseph Rassam

    32. Toccata in C Major, WV 85

      Composer: Heinrich Scheidemann

      Performer: Joseph Rassam

    33. Praeambulum in C Major, WV 30

      Composer: Heinrich Scheidemann

      Performer: Joseph Rassam

    34. Benedicam Domino

      Composer: Heinrich Scheidemann

      Performer: Joseph Rassam

    35. Jesu, wollst uns weisen, WV 78

      Composer: Heinrich Scheidemann

      Performer: Joseph Rassam

    36. Englischer Mascarada oder Judentanz

      Composer: Heinrich Scheidemann

      Performer: Joseph Rassam

    37. Allemand and Double in C Minor

      Composer: Heinrich Scheidemann

      Performer: Joseph Rassam

    38. Betrubet ist zu dieser Frist, WV 104

      Composer: Heinrich Scheidemann

      Performer: Joseph Rassam

    39. Pavana Lachrimae

      Composer: Heinrich Scheidemann

      Performer: Joseph Rassam

    40. Galliard with Variation in D Minor, WV 107

      Composer: Heinrich Scheidemann

      Performer: Joseph Rassam


Previous albums on Brilliant Classics have illuminated significant figures in the school of North German organ music in the generations before Bach. Here is the work of another, hardly less significant figure, Heinrich Scheidemann. He wrote almost exclusively for organ, and in the expected forms of chorale fantasias, motet arrangements, preludes, toccatas and fantasias which constituted the bread and butter of the 17th-century church musician’s diet. On this newly recorded album, the French organist Joseph Rassam plays a selection of all these genres, juxtaposed for maximum variety. In fact Scheidemann invented the genre of chorale fantasia, later so refined and developed by J.S. Bach, where a well-known chorale melody is played as the soprano line and reworked by means of superimposition, canon and imitation for the effects of grandeur and spiritual elevation. There are several Praeambulum movements in which Scheidemann builds on the legacy of the Dutch master Sweelinck, more freely composed, allowing full rein for the performer/composer’s own virtuosity. Until quite recently, all Scheidemann’s keyboard works were thought to have been written for the organ, but scholarly research has now shown that more than a quarter of the hundred or so pieces known to be by Scheidemann (or attributed to him) were actually written for the harpsichord and intended for performance in a secular context. Joseph Rassam’s recording is therefore one of the first to place such pieces in their original, intended context. In doing so, it reveals new and extrovert facets of the music which was hitherto characterised as more solemn and monumental according to an eccelesiastical context. Joseph Rassam has chosen to use three instruments appropriate to the historical and stylistic context of Scheidemann’s music. The organ is a relatively new one, inaugurated in 2010 by Gustav Leonhardt in the church of St Martin, Amilly, and built by Bertrand Cattiaux in the style of North-German Baroque instruments. He also plays an original 17th-century harpsichord of unknown manufacture, beautifully decorated and recently restored by Alain Anselm, and one of Anselm’s own virginals.