Description
Alpha: J. S. Bach — Sonatas & Solo for Flute — Lazarevitch, Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien (Audio CD)
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Product Details:
- UPC: 3760014191862
- Catalog Number: Alpha 186
- Product Type: Audio CD
- Brand / Label: Alpha (Outhere Music)
- Performer: François Lazarevitch (direction & traverso); Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien
- Continuo: Jean Rondeau (harpsichord), Lucile Boulanger (viola da gamba), Thomas Dunford (archlute)
- Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
- Release Year: 2014 (℗ 2013)
- Genre: Classical
- Style: Baroque, Chamber Music, Period Instruments
Product Features
- Format: CD
- Discs: 1
- Total runtime: 71:56
- Instrument: Baroque flute (flûte traversière)
- Booklet: Notes in French, English commentary
- Made in: Germany
- Condition: Brand new, factory sealed
Overview
François Lazarevitch and Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien gather Bach's principal works for the transverse flute on a single disc, played on period instruments. The program runs across the flute sonatas with the celebrated solo Partita as its centerpiece.
The collection moves between two textures. The sonatas with harpsichord (BWV 1030 in B minor and BWV 1032 in A major) treat the keyboard as a full partner, its right hand weaving an equal line against the flute. The continuo sonatas (BWV 1034 and 1035) are lighter on their feet, with viola da gamba and archlute filling out the bass. Between them sits the unaccompanied Partita in A minor, BWV 1013 — Bach writing a single melodic line that implies its own harmony, one of the great tests of a flutist's breath and phrasing.
Lazarevitch plays a baroque flute with a warm, speaking tone, and the continuo team of Rondeau, Boulanger, and Dunford is first-rate. The booklet borrows Forkel's observation that Bach played his own music briskly yet with such variety that each piece sounded like a spoken discourse — a fitting guide to these readings.
Recorded for Alpha with the label's usual care for sound and presentation, this is a distinguished modern account of Bach's flute music.
Interesting Facts
- The Partita in A minor, BWV 1013, is written for flute with no accompaniment — a rare and demanding form, since the player must suggest harmony through a single line.
- François Lazarevitch is a French flutist and bagpiper specializing in baroque and traditional music; he founded Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien in 2006.
- Harpsichordist Jean Rondeau, gambist Lucile Boulanger, and lutenist Thomas Dunford are all leading figures of the younger generation of period-instrument musicians.
- The authorship of the A major Sonata, BWV 1032, has been debated, and part of its first movement survives only incompletely in Bach's manuscript.
- Alpha, founded in France in 1999 and now part of Outhere Music, is known for its scholarly booklets pairing music with fine-art cover reproductions.
- The album's cover and "ut pictura musica" theme link each release to a painting, a signature of Alpha's early catalogue.
Track Listing
1–4. Sonata in B minor for flute and harpsichord, BWV 1030 5–8. Sonata in E minor for flute and basso continuo, BWV 1034 9–12. Sonata in E major for flute and basso continuo, BWV 1035 13–16. Solo (Partita) in A minor for solo flute, BWV 1013 17–19. Sonata in A major for flute and harpsichord, BWV 1032
Publishers
℗ 2013 Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien & Alpha Productions; © 2014 Alpha Productions (Outhere Music). Catalog Alpha 186. Made in Germany.
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