The Long 17th Century: A Cornucopia of Early Keyboard Music / Pienaar

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Avie Records
Release Date
February 7, 2020
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      VARIOUS
    • PERFORMER
      Daniel-Ben Pienaar
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      February 07, 2020
    • UPC
      822252241525
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      AV2415
    • LABEL
      Avie Records
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Toccata (from Fitzwilliam Virginal Book)

      Composer: Giovanni Picchi

      Performer: Daniel-Ben Pienaar

    2. Capriccio Cromatico

      Composer: Tarquinio Merula

      Performer: Daniel-Ben Pienaar

    3. Libro de tientos y discursos de musica practica, y theorica de organo: No. 36. Tiento de medio registro de tiple de décimo tono

      Composer: Francisco Corrêa de Arauxo

      Performer: Daniel-Ben Pienaar

    4. Canzon No. 3 in D Minor

      Composer: Matthias Weckmann

      Performer: Daniel-Ben Pienaar

    5. Ricercare a quatro de 4 tom

      Composer: António De Macedo

      Performer: Daniel-Ben Pienaar

    6. Tiento de falsas 6 tono

      Composer: Pablo Bruna

      Performer: Daniel-Ben Pienaar

    7. Canzon No. 4 a 4

      Composer: Giovanni Gabrieli

      Performer: Daniel-Ben Pienaar

    8. Duo in G Minor, BG 136, OL 16 [Bauyn Manuscript, F-Pn Rés. Vm7 675, folio 59v to 60v]

      Composer: Louis Couperin

      Performer: Daniel-Ben Pienaar

    9. Fantasia

      Composer: Alfonso Ferrabosco

      Performer: Daniel-Ben Pienaar

    10. Fiori Musicali: Toccata cromaticha per le levatione

      Composer: Girolamo Alessandro Frescobaldi

      Performer: Daniel-Ben Pienaar

    11. Ricercate, canzone francese, capricci, canti fermi, gagliarde, partite diverse, toccate, durezze e ligature … , Book 1: Gagliarda ottava

      Composer: Giovanni Maria Trabaci

      Performer: Daniel-Ben Pienaar

    12. Il primo libro d'intavolatura di balli d'arpicord: Gagliarda seconda

      Composer: Giovanni Maria Radino

      Performer: Daniel-Ben Pienaar

    13. Pavan in G Major

      Composer: Peter Philips

      Performer: Daniel-Ben Pienaar

    14. Suite No. 3 in C Major

      Composer: Matthew Locke

      Performer: Daniel-Ben Pienaar

    15. Almand (from Fitzwilliam Virginal Book)

      Composer: William Tisdale

      Performer: Daniel-Ben Pienaar

    16. Paduana Lachrymae (after J. Dowland)

      Composer: Melchior Schildt

      Performer: Daniel-Ben Pienaar

    17. Partita No. 4 in F Major

      Composer: Georg Muffat

      Performer: Daniel-Ben Pienaar

    18. Libro di toccate, ricercari, capricci, allemande, gigue, courante, sarabande, Book 4: Partita No. 8 in A Major, FbWV 608

      Composer: Johann Jacob Froberger

      Performer: Daniel-Ben Pienaar

    19. Les pieces de clavessin, Book 1: Suite No. 5 in G Minor: IV. Pavane L'entretien des dieux

      Composer: Jacques Champion Chambonnières

      Performer: Daniel-Ben Pienaar

    20. Harpsichord Suite No. 6 in G Major: VI. Rondeau

      Composer: Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

      Performer: Daniel-Ben Pienaar

    21. A Sad Pavan for these distracted times

      Composer: Thomas Tomkins

      Performer: Daniel-Ben Pienaar

    22. A Maske (from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book) (set by G. Farnaby)

      Composer: John Coprario

      Performer: Daniel-Ben Pienaar

    23. The Olde Spagnoletta (from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book)

      Composer: Giles Farnaby

      Performer: Daniel-Ben Pienaar

    24. Galliarda in D Minor

      Composer: Heinrich Scheidemann

      Performer: Daniel-Ben Pienaar

    25. Passacaglia

      Composer: Johann Caspar Kerll

      Performer: Daniel-Ben Pienaar

    26. Mein junges Leben hat ein End, SwWV 324

      Composer: Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck

      Performer: Daniel-Ben Pienaar

    27. Pasacalles II del 1 tono

      Composer: Juan Bautista José Cabanilles

      Performer: Daniel-Ben Pienaar

    28. Walsingham (from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, Vol. 1, No. 68)

      Composer: William Byrd

      Performer: Daniel-Ben Pienaar

    29. Ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la (from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book)

      Composer: John Bull

      Performer: Daniel-Ben Pienaar

    30. La Capricciosa in G Major, BuxWV 250

      Composer: Dieterich Buxtehude

      Performer: Daniel-Ben Pienaar

    31. Nun lob, mein Seel, den Herren

      Composer: Michael Praetorius

      Performer: Daniel-Ben Pienaar

    32. Musicalische Vorstellung einiger biblischer Historien, "Biblical Sonatas": Sonata No. 4, "Hiskia agonizzante e risanato"

      Composer: Johann Kuhnau

      Performer: Daniel-Ben Pienaar

    33. Batalha de 6 tom

      Composer: Antonio Correa Braga

      Performer: Daniel-Ben Pienaar

    34. Toccata con lo Scherzo del cucco

      Composer: Bernardo Pasquini

      Performer: Daniel-Ben Pienaar

    35. La Favorite

      Composer: Gaspard Le Roux

      Performer: Daniel-Ben Pienaar

    36. Tombeau de Mr. de Chambonnieres

      Composer: Jean Henri D'Anglebert

      Performer: Daniel-Ben Pienaar


The ever-inquisitive pianist Daniel-Ben Pienaar presents The Long 17th Century: A Cornucopia of Early Keyboard Music. The Long 17th Century refers to the period from the late 1500s to the early 1700s, an era noted for forward-thinking individuality and invention in all areas of life. This two-and-a-half hour recital surveys a pan-European variety of styles, genres and techniques, and comprises 36 works, each by a different composer, many not recorded before on a modern piano. Daniel-Ben Pienaar has been critically acclaimed for his previous albums on Avie: “a gloriously multi-faceted opus maximus ... Amazing and very much worth hearing” –Der Spiegel(on Beethoven’s Complete Piano Sonatas, AV2320) “dizzying virtuosity ... fresh, spontaneous, original readings that shed new light on the keyboard player’s Bible” –BBC Music Magazine (on J. S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, AV2299)



REVIEWS:

Have you noticed the growing trend of pianists taking up 17th-century keyboard works on the modern concert grand? Perhaps it has to do with the desire to be rebellious, or to attain a certain level of intellectual caché. Yet pianists also have valid artistic reasons to explore this repertoire. First and foremost are the sheer musical rewards. Secondly, the freedom one has in regard to phrasing, tempo, and embellishment can be liberating and creatively stimulating. For this remarkable two-disc collection, Daniel-Ben Pienaar has chosen 36 17th-century keyboard works, each by a different composer. He brilliantly reveals how a piano’s dynamic scope, timbral diversity, and sustaining capabilities can vividly and meaningfully serve this repertoire.

One noticeable example is in Tarquino Merula’s Capriccio cromatico, where the ascending legato chromatic lines and detaché counterline with repeated notes take on distinctive characters. The Weckmann D minor Canzon’s virtuosic repeated notes gain color and drama through pianistic inflection, and via Pienaar’s dapper fingerwork, of course. Terraced dynamics and half-tints of pedal evoke trumpets and winds in Gabrieli’s joyous Canzon quarta.

What bracing trills and hair-trigger scale passages Pienaar delivers throughout Muffat’s Partita IV, while serving up a more unified and colorfully contrasted reading of Buxtehude’s large-scale “La Capricciosa” Variations than most period performers manage to do. And while Pienaar allows for pockets of space or “air” between the notes in Keril’s Passacaglia, he manages to shape the sounds and silences into long-lined entities. I encourage listeners to discover their own favorite works and magic moments across this intelligently programmed, splendidly engineered, and boundlessly satisfying release.

– ClassicsToday.com (10/10; Jed Distler)

 

What makes it work is not just the dazzling precision and clarity of Pienaar’s finger technique (though that is certainly a vital factor), but the intelligence that has gone into his interpretations. He also communicates an individual and convincing vision for each piece, enough for every one of them to give delight.

 

–Gramophone (Editor's Choice; June 2020)