Schumann Schiranov, Barrage Maeter, and Leonardo Garcia Alarcon. - Bach Before Bach : Siranossian(Vn)B.Mate(Vc)Alarcon(Cemb) - Import CD

Credits:

Schumann Schiranov, Barrage Maeter, and Leonardo Garcia Alarcon.

Description:

Syranoian and Alarcon passionately unveil the source of Great Bach's violin art. This album focuses on the works that Great Bach wrote before "Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin", one of the greatest masterpieces of violin music, and composers who would have had a great influence on him. From Farina, who brought the art of violin from Italy to Germany, to the masters Muffat and Westhoff, who later supported Germany and Austria, to Bach's two sonatas and the fugues of his youth, to Walter, with whom Silanosian has been familiar since his days studying with Reinhard Goebel in Salzburg. The album also includes a Passacaglia and a movement from a sonata once attributed to Bach, but now attributed to Pisendel, a longtime concertmaster of the Dresden Court Orchestra of the same period. The three musicians, Silanossian of Armenian-French descent, Alarcon of Argentinean descent, and Martey of Hungarian descent, are well matched and give a very passionate performance of all the works, which is a delight. In "The Triumph of the Christians," a rewrite of Biber's work by A.A. Schmelzer, son of the great Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, they surprise us by playing some parts with paper between the strings of the cello, adding sound effects reminiscent of a 17th century battlefield. Naxos Japan

Tracklisting:

1.Violin Sonata in G major BWV 1021~I. Adagio
2.Violin Sonata in G major BWV 1021~II. Vivace
3.Violin Sonata in G major BWV 1021~III. Largo
4.Violin Sonata in G major BWV 1021~IV. Presto
5.Sonata quinta detta la farina
6.Passacaglia
7.Violin Sonata in C Minor BWV 1024~Adagio
8.Violin Sonata in G Minor BWV 1026~Fugue
9.Sonata in D Major
10.Violin Sonata in E Minor BWV 1023~I. Ouverture
11.Violin Sonata in E Minor BWV 1023~II. Adagio ma non tanto
12.Violin Sonata in E Minor BWV 1023~III. Allemanda
13.Violin Sonata in E Minor BWV 1023~IV. Gigue
14.Sonata III~Imitazione Delle Campane
15.Victori Der Christen