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J S Bach - Complete Sonatas for Flute & Harpsichord

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Label: Warner

Cat No: 2174432

Barcode: 5099921744327

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Release Date: 6th October 2008

Works

Bach, Johann Sebastian

Flute Sonata in A major, BWV1032
Flute Sonata in B minor, BWV1030
Flute Sonata in C major, BWV1033
Flute Sonata in E flat major, BWV1031
Flute Sonata in E major, BWV1035
Flute Sonata in E minor, BWV1034
Flute Sonata in G minor, BWV1020
Trio Sonata in G major, BWV1039

Artists

Emmanuel Pahud (flute)
Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord)
Jonathan Manson (cello continuo)
Silvia Careddu (flute)

Works

Bach, Johann Sebastian

Artists

Emmanuel Pahud (flute)
Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord)
Jonathan Manson (cello continuo)
Silvia Careddu (flute)

About

Emmanuel Pahud follows his release of newly composed concertos by Marc André Dalbavie, Michael Jarrell and Matthias Pintscher with a programme comprising the complete flute sonatas of Johann Sebastian Bach. His partner at the harpsichord is the renowned period instrument soloist and conductor Trevor Pinnock. With the juxtaposition of these two releases, Pahud, one of today’s most exciting and adventurous musicians, demonstrates his mastery of and sympathy for music composed nearly three centuries apart.

Bach is believed to have composed his flute sonatas BWV 1030-1035 between the 1720s and 1741, following the innovation of the transverse flute, the instrument that superseded the recorder. After Johann Joachim Quantz demonstrated the new instrument throughout Europe in the early 1720s, Bach celebrated its technical and expressive qualities and newly available tonal colours in this series of sonatas, which are among his best known chamber works. He also featured the flute in the Brandenburg Concerto No.2 and in the Benedictus of the Mass in B Minor.

The first three of the six sonatas, BWV 1030-1032, are three-movement obligato sonatas in which Bach wrote out the right hand notes to the accompaniment; BWV 1033-1035, by contrast, are continuo sonatas in four movements in which the composer provided only the bass line of the accompaniment. Jonathan Manson is the cellist in the continuo sonatas.

There is some debate over the provenance of the Sonata BWV 1020 in G Minor, which some believe was composed by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, rather than by his father. C.P.E. Bach, however, gave the credit to his father. The sonata is played today by both flautists and violinists. Silvia Careddu is the second flautist in the Trio Sonata BWV 1039 in G Major, composed in 1720.

Emmanuel Pahud, Principal Flute of the Berliner Philharmoniker since the age of 22, with the exception of a year-and-a-half-long sabbatical, has also appeared as soloist with many of the world’s other leading orchestras under conductors including Abbado, Rattle, Zinman, Maazel, Gergiev, Gardiner, Harding, Järvi, Pinnock, Jordan and the late Mstislav Rostropovich. He gives recitals with pianists Eric Le Sage, Yefim Bronfman and Hélène Grimaud and performs jazz with Jacky Terrasson.

Trevor Pinnock is an internationally acclaimed harpsichordist and conductor and a pioneer of historical instrument performance with The English Concert, an orchestra that he founded in 1972 and led for the next thirty years. He currently divides his time between conducting, performing as soloist and chamber musician and educational projects.