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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714 - 1788) Testament et promesses Aline Zylberajch Clavier - Fantasie mit Begleitung einer Violine Wq.80, H.536 (1787) 12'47 12 Variationen auf die "Folies d'Espagne" Wq.118/9, H 263 (1778) 8'33 Fantaisie pour clavier en do mineur Wq.63/6, H.75 (1753) 5'29 Sonate pour violon et clavier en do mineur Wq.78, H.514 (1763) - Allegro moderato 7'41 - Adagio ma non troppo 5'49 - Allegro 5'20 Sonate pour clavier en la majeur Wq.55/4, H.186 (1765-1779) - Allegro assai 5'23 - Poco adagio 4'35 - Allegro 5'26 Arioso per il Cembale e violono Wq.79, H.535 (1781) 9'39 Alice Piérot Aline Zylberajch : piano tangentiel / Tangentenflügel William Jurgenson (1993) d'après Späth und Schmahl, Regensburg, ca. 1770 conservé au Landesmuseum – Württemberg (Stuttgart) Alice Piérot : violon Jeremy Chaud d’après le violon "Lord Wilton" de Giuseppe Antonio Guarneri, 1742 1 Le piano à tangentes ou Tangentenflügel l’ensemble. Le son direct du bois sur les cordes imite, selon les contemporains, le son du clavecin. Le registre de harpe, très fréquent dans tous les claviers allemands de la fin du Franz Jakob Späth (1714-1786) est le plus connu des membres d’une famille XVIIIe siècle, fait descendre une bande épaisse de soie ou de laine sur les cordes réputée de facteurs d’orgues installée dans le Sud de l’Allemagne dès le XVIIe avant qu’elles ne soient frappées, et, sous l’effet combiné de la levée des siècle. Il aurait, selon Gerber, construit son premier piano à tangentes en 1751 et étouffoirs, l’effet musical produit est celui d’une harpe, pizzicato , mais prolongé son gendre, Christoph Friedrich Schmahl (1739-1814), en produisait encore en par une harmonique d’un autre monde. -
Finale 2006C
6 Introduction Johann Gottlieb Graun was born in the small Saxon town of Wahrenbrück in 1702 or 1703, the second of three brothers, each of whom was to become a distinguished musician. He counted among his ancestors an organist and several generations of Protestant pastors, but his father August served a more materialistic cause: he was a tax collec- tor and brewer. Educational possibilities in Wahrenbrück were limited, and all three brothers were sent elsewhere for further education. The eldest, August Friedrich (1698/99-1765) went to Grimma in 1711, at which point he may be allowed to depart from this biographical sketch. Johann Gottlieb and his younger brother Carl Heinrich (1703/4- 1759) remained together, a situation which pertained throughout much of their lives, and which has ever since cau- sed considerable confusion and difficulty in attribution of much of their music. Johann Gottlieb went to the Kreuzschule in Dresden in 1713, and Carl Heinrich followed him there in 1714. This excellent school offered general education with an emphasis on music. It was associated with the Dresden Kreuzkirche, and trained singers for its choir, the Kreuzchor. During his time at the Kreuzschule Graun would have come in contact with the fine musicians of the Dresden court, as well as visitors such as Telemann and J. S. Bach. The Saxon capital was a major political and cultural centre, and its court orchestra was widely admired. Among its finest younger virtuosi was the violinist Johann Georg Pisendel (1687-1755), who was appointed in 1712 and took over as Konzertmeister in 1728. -
Introduction
INTRODUctION The estate catalogue of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach lists 46 Table 1 lists all of the trios published in CPEB:CW, II/2 items under the broad heading “Trii” (NV 1790, pp. 36– and II/3, organized according to the entries in NV 1790, 42). This group includes trio sonatas for various instru- which include place and date of composition and autho- ments, keyboard trios (obbligato keyboard with a single rized scoring. These works comprise 31 of the catalogue’s instrument), and accompanied sonatas (keyboard, violin, 46 “Trii,” as well as the lost trio for violin, viola, and bass, and cello), as well as two collections of “kleine Stücke” in written collaboratively by Bach and his father and listed two and three parts. While this collection of works shows among the “Einige vermischte Stücke” (NV 1790, p. 65). a diversity of scoring, all but the simpler “kleine Stücke” Table 1 does not include Wq 81–82 (NV 1790, nos. 24 (Wq 81–82) and the accompanied sonatas (Wq 89–91) and 31), or Wq 89–91 (NV 1790, nos. 32–44), as these are employ a polyphonic texture comprising three separate published in CPEB:CW, II/5 and II/4, respectively. For contrapuntal lines, whether dispensed for two or three each trio, the table lists any explicitly authorized scoring instruments, thus reflecting the central principle of eigh- with its pertinent principal source(s). A few of the entries teenth-century trio composition.1 include more than one Wq number, to represent their dif- For practical considerations, the edition organizes ferent scorings. -
C. P. E. BACH, CONCERTOS W. 4–6: INTRODUCTION Edited Here Are
W. 4–6: Introduction, p. 1 C. P. E. BACH, CONCERTOS W. 4–6: INTRODUCTION Edited here are the first three concertos for solo keyboard and strings that Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach composed at Berlin. These works date from 1738, 1739, and 1740, respectively, years that saw Bach move to Berlin and enter the service of King Friedrich II “the Great” of Prussia.1 One additional concerto from this period, composed earlier in 1740 for two keyboard instruments and strings, is edited separately.2 Although Bach is known to have previously composed three concertos as a student at Leipzig and Frankfurt-on-the-Oder, the present works are the first products of an extraordinary creative development that would continue in the twenty-two further concertos that Bach would compose or revise at Berlin and Potsdam through the 1740s. Only within the domain of the keyboard sonata would he produce a greater number of works during this period. Although written at the beginning of Bach's professional career, these are not tentative or student works. They reveal a youthful but fully mature composer brilliantly expanding the vocabulary of a new genre in each new work. One inspiration for this outburst of creativity doubtless was furnished by his father, in particular the eight completed keyboard concertos that Johann Sebastian Bach copied into a fair-copy manuscript around 1738, the same year as W. 4.3 A second would have been the artistic, social, and economic ferment of Berlin during the period when Prince Friedrich, now securely in the good graces of his father Friedrich Wilhelm II, was preparing to take the throne. -
Basso Continuo and Partimento Realization
FIRST INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION FOR BASSO CONTINUO AND PARTIMENTO REALIZATION INFORMATION BOOKLET Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice January 12-14, 2019 organisers Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice Harpsichord and Historical Performance Practice Department Organisation: Prof. Marek Pilch Artistic directors: Prof. Marek Toporowski, Prof. Marcin Świątkiewicz, Prof. Marek Pilch. Competition office: Katarzyna Drogosz, Dominika Maszczyńska Cooperating institutions: Academy of Music in Łódź, Harpsichord and Early Music Department, baroque flute class of Prof. Magdalena Pilch Academy of Music, University in Ljubjana (delegating Prof. Dalibor Miklavčič as a jury member) Vocal Institute of the Academy of Music in Katowice Henryk Mikołaj Górecki Silesian Philharmonic NOSPR Chamber music partners: In the first round: Students in the baroque violin class of Prof. Martyna Pastuszka: Izabela Kozak, Marta Korbel, Antonina Cierpioł & Aleksandra Radwańska, and Martyna Pastuszka & Adam Pastuszka. Students in the baroque flute class of Prof. Magdalena Pilch: Aleksandra Gajkowska (AM Łódź), Radosław Orawski (AM Łódź) & Marta Gawlas (AM Katowice) In the second round: Instrumental ensemble: Antonina Cierpioł, Marta Korbel (violin), Szymon Stochniol (viola), Monika Hartmann (violoncello), Marta Gawlas & Aleksandra Gajkowska (baroque flute) Vocalist: Katarzyna Bełkius (soprano), Olena Zaiets (soprano), Barbara Grzybek (alto), Artur Plinta (alto) & Adrian Janus (bass). competition schedule FIRST ROUND Saturday, January 12, 2019 11:00 - 13:00 and 17:00 - 19:30 Sunday, January 13, 2019 11:00 - 13:00 and 16:00-17:30 ca. 18:30 results of the first round SECOND ROUND (FINAL) Monday, January 14, 2019 15:00-17:30 ca. 18:30 final results The competition will take place at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, at the Bolesław Szabelski recital hall. -
Introduction
INTRODUCTION sented something of an exception and it seems likely that Repertoire, Background, C. P. E. Bach in his early days composed many more trios and General Chronology in the standard format than have survived. That this was Within the rich repertoire of instrumental trios spanning indeed the case is confirmed by the later revisions of trios Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s entire creative life, the sonatas composed in Leipzig (NV 1790, nos. 1–7) whose original for two treble instruments and bass represent not only the versions fell victim to the manuscript burning of 1772. The majority but also the composer’s point of departure for this extant trio sonata repertoire is collected in CPEB:CW, genre of composition, going all the way back to the Leipzig II/2, with volume II/2.1 containing twelve trios for flute, years when he was studying with his father. The pertinent violin, and bass; and volume II/2.2 containing nine sonatas repertoire comprises altogether twenty-three trio sonatas, for two violins and bass, plus one trio for two flutes and early and alternate versions not included. A twenty-fourth bass, and two versions of a sonata for bass recorder, viola, piece, in all likelihood the oldest of the lot, did not sur- and bass. The keyboard trios for clavier and violin, viola da vive but is referenced in Bach’s estate catalogue (NV 1790, gamba, or flute are included in CPEB:CW, II/3.1 and 3.2. p. 65): “Trio for violin, viola and bass, composed jointly When Bach and his contemporaries (such as the Graun with Johann Sebastian Bach” (Trio für die Violine, Brat- brothers and other colleagues from the Prussian court sche und Baß, mit Johann Sebastian Bach gemeinschaft- Capelle) composed trios, they continued a tradition that lich verfertigt). -
'The British Harpsichord Society' April 2021
ISSUE No. 16 Published by ‘The British Harpsichord Society’ April 2021 ________________________________________________________________________________________________ INTRODUCTION 1 A word from our Guest Editor - Dr CHRISTOPHER D. LEWIS 2 FEATURES • Recording at Home during Covid 19 REBECCA PECHEFSKY 4 • Celebrating Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach COREY JAMASON 8 • Summer School, Dartington 2021 JANE CHAPMAN 14 • A Review; Zoji PAMELA NASH 19 • Early Keyboard Duets FRANCIS KNIGHTS 21 • Musings on being a Harpsichordist without Gigs JONATHAN SALZEDO 34 • Me and my Harpsichord; a Romance in Three Acts ANDREW WATSON 39 • The Art of Illusion ANDREW WILSON-DICKSON 46 • Real-time Continuo Collaboration BRADLEY LEHMAN 51 • 1960s a la 1760s PAUL AYRES 55 • Project ‘Issoudun 1648-2023’ CLAVECIN EN FRANCE 60 IN MEMORIAM • John Donald Henry (1945 – 2020) NICHOLAS LANE with 63 friends and colleagues ANNOUNCEMENTS 88 • Competitions, Conferences & Courses Please keep sending your contributions to [email protected] Please note that opinions voiced here are those of the individual authors and not necessarily those of the BHS. All material remains the copyright of the individual authors and may not be reproduced without their express permission. INTRODUCTION ••• Welcome to Sounding Board No.16 ••• Our thanks to Dr Christopher Lewis for agreeing to be our Guest Editor for this edition, especially at such a difficult time when the demands of University teaching became even more complex and time consuming. Indeed, it has been a challenging year for all musicians but ever resourceful, they have found creative ways to overcome the problems imposed by the Covid restrictions. Our thanks too to all our contributors who share with us such fascinating accounts of their musical activities during lock-down. -
The Primary Sources
THE PRIMARY SOURCES are “Bridging the Generation Gap” With Works of JS Bach CPE Bach JCF Bach WA Mozart FX Mozart The Primary Sources are: Kristen Huebner, Flute Lucie de Saint Vincent, Fortepiano UNDERSTANDING THE GENERATION GAP… PROGRAM Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788) Sonata in G Major, H 509, Wq 86 (1755) The Primary Sources seek to draw a link between the canon of classical repertoire so Andante well-known to our modern ears and the lesser known works of their contemporaries. Allegretto The eighteenth century offers a wealth of material to explore and interpret with a fresh Allegro perspective. This particular program will delve into the familial connections of two of the compositional giants of the 18th century, Johann Sebastian Bach and Wolfgang Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Partita for Flute Solo, BWV 1013 (1722-23) Amadeus Mozart, and their musical legacy to their sons. Allemande Corrente Having studied directly from their father, Carl Philipp Emanuel and Johann Christoph Sarabande Friedrich Bach obtained a distinctly inherent legacy all the while honing their individual Bourrée angloise taste and compositional voices. Franz Xaver Mozart never knew his father but the posthumous stamp on his music is prevalent all the same. He produced several works Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732-1795) Sonata in D Minor (1777) of merit which are striking to hear in contrast to the music so prevalent during his Allegretto non troppo father’s time. A new sentimentalism can be heard at work, stirring emotions rarely Andante experienced in the baroque landscape. Allegro For The Primary Sources, it’s all about bridging the gap in a repertoire so often beheld PAUSE as aloof and incomprehensible. -
Joseph Haydn La Création Jo Seph H a Y Dn L a Création | V Endredi 11
Joseph Joseph vendredi 11février–20h h aydn aydn La Création La Joseph haydn La Création | Vendredi 11 février vendredi 11 février – 20h Joseph haydn La Création entracte après la première partie Le Concert Spirituel Chœur de la Radio Flamande Hervé Niquet, direction Sandrine Piau, soprano Topi Lehtipuu, ténor Andrew Foster-Williams, baryton-basse Ce concert est surtitré. Enregistré par France Musique, ce concert sera diffusé le 2 mars 2011 à 20h. fin du concert vers 22h20. Joseph haydn (1732-1809) La Création [Die Schöpfung], oratorio en trois parties sur un livret de Gottfried van Swieten, pour soprano, ténor, basse, chœur mixte et orchestre, Hob. XXI:2 Composition : 1796-1798 Livret allemand de Gottfried van Swieten d’après Le Paradis perdu de Milton Première audition privée à Vienne chez le prince Schwarzenberg le 30 avril 1798 ; première audition publique au Burgtheater de Vienne le 19 mars 1799 Première édition, à compte d’auteur : 28 février 1800 Effectif : soprano solo, ténor solo, basse solo, chœur à quatre voix – 2 flûtes, 2 hautbois, 2 clarinettes, 2 bassons, 1 contrebasson – 2 cors, 2 trompettes, 3 trombones – percussions – cordes Durée : environ 1h45 À Londres, entre 1791 et 1795, Haydn entendit divers oratorios de Haendel, et l’idée de se mesurer à « notre maître à tous » ne devait plus le quitter. Il rapporta de Londres à Vienne un livret en anglais qui, un demi-siècle auparavant, avait été destiné à Haendel. Le baron Gottfried van Swieten (1733-1803), un des membres les plus « éclairés » de la noblesse viennoise, adapta en allemand ce livret inspiré à la fois de la Bible (Genèse et Psaumes) et du Paradis perdu de Milton. -
Flutist and Composer
College Music Symposium Vol. 30, No. 2 (Fall, 1990), pp. 117-125 People, Music, and Performance History Frederick the Great: Flutist and Composer Andrea Kapell Loewy II, KNOWN AS FREDERICK THE GREAT, WAS THE ELDEST SURVIVING son of Frederick William I and Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, sister of George II of England. Born in Berlin in 1712, Frederick demonstrated an early interest and talent in music and French literature that created strife with his stern father. The "barracks King" did not appreciate the artistic leanings of his son. His instructions to Frederick's tutors were that the Crown Prince should be trained for a hard life with its requisite distaste for laziness, "one of the greatest of all vices."1 In addition, the Crown Prince must deny himself "operas, comedies, and other follies of the laity."2 Therefore Frederick's musical pur- suits were accomplished with the aid of his mother and against the wishes of his father, who disapprovingly called his son "a flutist and a poet."3 Throughout the period before his accession, Frederick developed his mu- sical abilities. In 1728 he began studying flute with Johann Joachim Quantz and thus started a musical association that was to continue until Quantz 's death in 1773. At his residences in Ruppin and Rheinsberg he employed a group of musicians that was to form the nucleus of his musical establishment when he ascended the throne. When Frederick became King in 1740, he expanded the group of musi- cians to fifty. They included C. P. E. Bach as first cembalist, Karl Heinrich Graun as Kapellmeister, Johann Fredrich Agricola as court composer, Franz and Joseph Benda as violinists, Johann Gottlieb Graun as concertmaster, and Johann Joachim Quantz as chamber musician and flutist. -
Programme 2009
festival de LE CLAVIER DANS TOUS SES ÉTATS 8 AOÛT 19 20 26 SEPT 02 03 04 OCT 2009 31E RENCONTRES CULTURELLES : MUSIQUE ET GASTRONOMIE ITINÉRAIRES CULTURELS EUROPÉENS 31e édition 12 Nicholas Angelich 1 page 14 Thomas Bloch 2 page 07 et 09 Aldo Ciccolini 3 page 14 Concerto Köln 4 page 12 Claire Debono 5 page 12 Joël Grare 6 page 09 Ahmad Jamal 7 page 05 Quatuor Modigliani 8 page 10 Jean-Frédéric Neuburger 9 page 10 Alain Planès 10 page 12 Jean-François Zygel 11 page 09 Aline Zylberajch 12 page 08 Andreas Spering 13 page 12 Mélanie Brégant 14 page 07 13 4 6 5 10 1 8 2 14 9 11 3 7 Piano, pianoforte, clavecin, orgue, harmonium, célesta, Glockenspiel, ondes Martenot, cristal Baschet, glass armonica, accordéon, xylophone de claves ou encore cloches de vache de Chamonix, décidément les claviers de Fénétrange sont cette année, … dans tous leurs états ! Un festival nouveau, qui se (ré)invente une vocation… écolo- gique, labellisée par le Parc naturel régional de Lorraine, et qui nous mènera en compagnie de Moselle Arts Vivants, nouvel opérateur culturel du département de la Moselle, vers la première biennale de musique romantique française (une coproduction du Palazzetto Bru Zane de Venise) ! Nous entendons ainsi résolument poursuivre notre aventure musicale, gastronomique et écologique, hors des sentiers bat- tus, avec des créations et des concerts d’exception auxquels nous vous suggérons d’adhérer sans modération ! Benoît Piatkowski président du festival page 04 Samedi 08 août 21 H – La Petite Pierre - Place du château Ahmad Jamal « It’s Magic » En compagnie d’Ahmad Jamal, nous poursuivons la belle collaboration avec « au Grès du jazz », à La Petite Pierre : cet admirateur de Maurice Ravel et de Vladimir Horowitz, qui fut partenaire de Duke Ellington et de Billie Holiday (!), défend notamment dans « It’s magic » ce qu’il appelle avec fierté, « la musique classique américaine ». -
The Viola Da Gamba Music of the Berlin School Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2008 ISBN 978-0-7546-5885-6
124 Context 34 full details only in the bibliography. The reader interested in sources is thus forced to flip between three difference places. Over half the book is taken up with pointless appendices. After the list of works in Appendix 1, there is a transcript of Crispin’s 2001 interview with Sitsky, which would have been much better had it been edited, rather than the conversation transcribed verbatim and then reproduced in full. Appendix 3 is a selective list of Busoni’s library of esoterica, compiled (according to a passing mention on page 57) from an auction catalogue of the composer’s library. If this information is at all relevant, why is there no comparable list of Sitsky’s library? The large bibliography contains a huge amount of esoteric literature, much of it of tangential relevance, which was, I suspect, borrowed from Sitsky’s extensive collection conveniently located in his house in Canberra. There is at least an index, but it is rather limited. In the end, even the author herself seems unsure about the validity of her claims, with her conclusions hedged with phrases such as ‘It is undeniable that …’ (p. 141), ‘It is difficult to refute that …’ (p. 141) and ‘It seems obvious that …’ (p. 143). She is unlikely to convince any but the most credulous readers with her assertion that the only way to interpret the music of Busoni and Sitsky is through reference to their shared interest in esoteric traditions. Both men are, after all, first and foremost musicians, not magicians, and consummate musical artisans, not Rosemary Browns.