Release Date: 31 March 2023
Label: Somm - Cd / Somm Recordings
Packaging Type: Brilliant Case (Jewel Case size, Holds 2 CDs)
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 0748871066427
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Johann Sebastian Bach
Description
SOMM Recordings announces a double-disc set of Johann Sebastian Bach's Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord brilliantly performed by two virtuosos of their instruments, Adrian Butterfield (violin) and Silas Wollston (harpsichord). The selection of eight sonatas includes six works for violin and obbligato harpsichord (BWV 1014-1019), likely composed between 1720 and 1723 during Bach's final years in Cothen, and the later Violin Sonatas in G major (BWV 1021) from 1732, and early (though belatedly catalogued) E minor (BWV 1023) from around 1709. Bonus tracks include three alternative movements composed for the BWV 1019 Sonata in G major that illustrate the development of Bach's thinking in relation to sonata form and intimate musical expression. These intricately designed sonatas also serve to reveal Bach's innovative way of employing the harpsichord's singing voice as an equal to the violin and are surely precursors to the rich sonata tradition that emerged in the 19th century.
Peter Donohoe
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Rudge/Glynn
Emma Halnan; Ulster Orchestra; Jac van Steen
Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York; George Szell
London Handel Players
Cyprus Symphony Orchestra; Nimrod Borenstein
Joan Hammond; Marjorie Thomas; William Herbert; John Cameron; Owen Brannigan; Richard Standen; BBC
Richard Cook, St Edmundsbury Cathedral Choir, Claudia Grinnell
Mvsica Perdvta
Iker Munduate
Gunta Smirnova, Mikayel Balyan
Young Artists of the Rome Chamber Music Festival/Flavio Emilio Scogna
Toby Carr
Tobias Tietze
The Choir of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge; Andrew Lawrence-King (psaltery & harp); David Skinne
