Bach: Gamba Sonatas
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Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel BachComposer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Angela Hewitt
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2007-06-26
Music Label: Orfeo
Soundtracks:
- Adagio
- Allegro ma non tanto
- Andante
- Allegro moderato
- Adagio
- Allegro
- Andante
- Allegro
- Vivace
- Adagio
- Allegro
- Adagio ma non tanto
- Allegro con brio
- Arioso
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Free Music Review: Bach for a Sunday morning
Hit: 5 Stars
Its amazing to realize how much monumental music JS Bach wrote in his lifetime (1685-1750). Originally written for the gamba and harpischord, these three sonatas translate well to the modern cello and piano as their sunny, pleasant sonorites attest. The last sonata by Bach's most musically innovative son, CPE Bach, is an added treat.
Having recorded all of the major keyboard works of Bach, Angela Hewitt now picks up these "minor" pieces with cellist Daniel Muller-Schott. The compositions are not necessarily "virtuostic" - like those of Beethoven - but they among the first to give more equal partnership of the keyboard beyond continuo. These sonatas brim forth with effortless melody and quality musical development that Bach was so marvelous in composing which gives them a universal appeal.
Listening to this similar-temperament pair of fine musicians play these pieces, one would be hard-pressed to find something not to like (barring a conflict with use of modern instruments for some perhaps). Both relax nicely into these works. Hewitt's Bach is well known and Muller-Schott brings an attractive, luminously coloured sound and texture to the reading. His intonation and judicious use of vibrato sounds silky smooth on the 1727 Matteo Goffriller cello he uses. It makes for wonderful, nourishing music to play often - like on a relaxing Sunday morning. And the Orfeo sound and ideal instrument balance brings them fully to life (to me the sound is better than the Hyperion sound of Hewitt's many recordings). I also like their treatment and sound environment slightly better than another modern instrument performance of Maiskey/Argerich. A beautiful CD. [55 minutes] Compositions - 4.5 stars; Performance - 5 stars; Sound quality - 5 stars.
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