Release Date: 26 June 2020
Label: Challenge Classics
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 608917284522
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Description
Ewald Demeyere performs Keyboard Variations by CPE Bach and Mozart on the harpsichord in what is an inquiring and original project. Demeyere shows us the two profoundly different styles from the composers in works dating from the same years.
Ewald Demeyere: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788) and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) are not composers whose works are regularly
included in the same concert or recording program. One reason for this is probably of a stylistic nature: Bach wrote in the empfindsame Stil and in the
Sturm und Drang style, while Mozart used a language that today is described as classical. For me, however, it is precisely this stylistic difference
between the two composers, whose four works on this album were written between 1777 and 1782, that makes such a musical encounter so
fascinating. Another reason why compositions by Bach and Mozart are not often programmed together seems to have to do with the choice of
instrument. Today, in the context of historically informed performances, Bach's solo keyboard repertoire is mainly played on the clavichord and that of
Mozart on the fortepiano. Both men, however, also played the harpsichord frequently, a fact which I found so interesting as to choose precisely that
keyboard instrument for this recording in works that I believe are just as convincing on that instrument as they are on their respective instrument of
reference.
Tracklisting
The Counterpoints
Narratio Quartet
Aart Bergwerff
Roberto Prosseda
Octavie Dostaler-Lalonde
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Dejan Lazic, Jan Willem de Vriend
Ton Koopman
Duo Saraswati
Ewald Demeyere, Bach Concentus
Ewald Demeyere, La Petite Bande
Dorothee Mields, Ewald Demeyere, Bach Concentus
Barthold Kuijken, Marcel Ponseele, Il Gardellino, Frank Theuns, Marc Hantai, Ewald Demeyere, Liuwe Tamminga, Ensemble La Passione, Thomas Fey, La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken
Barthold Kuijken, Wieland Kuijken, Ann Cnop, Piet Kuijken, Ewald Demeyere
Frank Theuns, Ewald Demeyere
Frank Theuns, Marc Hantai, Martin Bauer, Ewald Demeyere
Barthold Kuijken, Robert Kohnen, Wieland Kuijken, Peter Van Heyghen, Kris Verhelst, Marcel Ponseele, Ewald Demeyere, Richte Van Der Meer
