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Release Date: 06 June 2025
Label: TYXart
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 4250702801917
Composer/Series: Folio - Lessons from the Master
Description
Folio - Lessons from the Master. Works by Bach, Nante, Albinoni, Prince of Saxe-Weimar. Tabea Debus, recorder & Tom Foster, harpsichord / chamber organ.
"All one has to do is hit the right notes at the right times, and the instrument plays itself."
This might well be a note scribbled inside a portfolio of a student's lessons with Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach's responsibilities as a teacher inspired him to create a myriad of pieces for the benefit of his students, both in and outside his family. This imagined folio of lessons highlights various facets of music-making and learning: from copying and arranging, through accompanying and ornamenting, to explorations of style and technique.
There are several sets of pieces that Bach collated (also) with his lessons in mind, amongst them the 'Orgelbuchlein', the 'Little Organ Book', which he started whilst working in Weimar in 1708, and the so-called 'Inventions and Sinfonias', composed in the 1720s in Cothen for his son Wilhelm Friedemann and for "lovers of the clavier, and particularly those who desire to learn". He worked on the 'Orgelbuchlein' over many years, adding to it and making changes, presumably adapting to his student's needs. His inscription on the title page proclaims in a rhyming couplet that his compositions were "in praise for the Almighty's will, and for my neighbour's greater skill".
In the context of this programme two choral preludes and two 'Sinfonias' are used as "warm-ups", or preludes for five imagined lessons, functioning as the binding of the student's portfolio. Apart from furthering his students' abilities, posterity was very much on Bach's mind. He hoped that his pupils would go on to influence "the minds of other good students who are not satisfied with the ordinary lirum-larum."
Critically acclaimed recorder player Tabea Debus is joined on this new recording by harpsichordisc Tom Foster.
Tracklisting
Alexandra Sostmann
Pi-Chin Chien; Bernhard Parz
Martin Ostertag/Oliver Triendl
Bernhard Parz
Tabea Debus; Tom Foster
Joshua Rupley
Ofra Yitzhaki
Anna-Lena Elbert, Evangelina Mascardi, Angelique Mauillon, Friederike Heumann
Tabea Debus; Tom Foster
Astrid Knochlein & Ensemble
Irene Roldan; Pablo Fitzgerald; Asako Ueda; Alberto Miguelez Rouco
Jennifer Johnson Cano; Peggy Pearson; Baroklyn; Simone Dinnerstein
Andreina Di Girolamo; Silvia Rambaldi
Fernando De Luca
Ferenc Fricsay; RIAS Symphonie Orchester
La Petite Bande; Sigiswald Kuijken
