Nicolas Dautricourt & Juho Pohjonen – Bach: 6 Sonatas for Violin and Keyboard, BWV 1014-1019 (2018) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Nicolas Dautricourt & Juho Pohjonen – Bach: 6 Sonatas for Violin and Keyboard, BWV 1014-1019 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:38 minutes | 2,27 GB | Genre: Classical
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One of the most original features of the Sonatas for violin and piano BWV 1014-1019 is the imagination shown by Johann Sebastian Bach in harmonic, melodic and contrapuntal terms. The pianist’s right hand and the violin must constantly answer each other, while the basso continuo is entrusted to the pianist’s left hand. The exceptional degree of invention to be found in this musical dialogue – a felicitous harmony between melody and counterpoint – irremediably excludes any form of excessive soliloquising.

Bach’s music can adapt to practically any instrument. The source of sonority is relatively insignificant, since what counts for the composer is the philosophical and intellectual content: the form, the tonal structure and the melodic contours of the work are of greater importance than the instrument per se.

Do we not see in the master of Leipzig a universal icon, a supreme instance through which, in a sense, all music has come into being? In the face of such immensity, it was therefore appropriate to observe a certain simplicity: this disc is anything but a ‘historical’ recording. It does not claim to be the depository of any particular learning and bears the seal of no particular heritage.

The performers play for the listeners of their time. On the one hand, there is Nicolas Dautricourt’s 1713 Stradivarius and, on the other, Juho Pohjonen’s modern Steinway & Sons D.

To listen to this double album is to immerse oneself in a world of abundance and to gain an insight into how such controlled music can still provoke such great emotion, thanks to the talents of these two magnificent artists. This is the amazing sonic adventure on which we are invited to join Florian Noack, one of today’s most exciting artists.

Tracklist:
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
CD1
01. Mache dich, mein Geist, bereit, BWV 115: II. Aria (Arr. for Violin and Piano)
02. Sonata for Violin and Piano in B Minor, BWV 1014: I. Adagio
03. Sonata for Violin and Piano in B Minor, BWV 1014: II. Allegro
04. Sonata for Violin and Piano in B Minor, BWV 1014: III. Andante
05. Sonata for Violin and Piano in B Minor, BWV 1014: IV. Allegro
06. Sonata for Violin and Piano in A Major, BWV 1015: I. Andante
07. Sonata for Violin and Piano in A Major, BWV 1015: II. Allegro
08. Sonata for Violin and Piano in A Major, BWV 1015: III. Andante un poco
09. Sonata for Violin and Piano in A Major, BWV 1015: IV. Presto
10. Sonata for Violin and Piano in E Major, BWV 1016: I. Adagio
11. Sonata for Violin and Piano in E Major, BWV 1016: II. Allegro
12. Sonata for Violin and Piano in E Major, BWV 1016: III. Adagio ma non troppo
13. Sonata for Violin and Piano in E Major, BWV 1016: IV. Allegro
CD2
01. Sonata for Violin and Piano in C Minor, BWV 1017: I. Largo
02. Sonata for Violin and Piano in C Minor, BWV 1017: II. Allegro
03. Sonata for Violin and Piano in C Minor, BWV 1017: III. Adagio
04. Sonata for Violin and Piano in C Minor, BWV 1017: IV. Allegro
05. Sonata for Violin and Piano in F Minor, BWV 1018: I. Largo
06. Sonata for Violin and Piano in F Minor, BWV 1018: II. Allegro
07. Sonata for Violin and Piano in F Minor, BWV 1018: III. Adagio
08. Sonata for Violin and Piano in F Minor, BWV 1018: IV. Vivace
09. Sonata for Violin and Piano in G Major, BWV 1019: I. Allegro
10. Sonata for Violin and Piano in G Major, BWV 1019: II. Largo
11. Sonata for Violin and Piano in G Major, BWV 1019: III. Allegro
12. Sonata for Violin and Piano in G Major, BWV 1019: IV. Adagio
13. Sonata for Violin and Piano in G Major, BWV 1019: V. Allegro
14. Orchestral Suite No. 3, BWV 1068: II. Aria (Arr. for Violin and Piano)
15. Sonata for Violin and Piano in G Major, BWV 1019a: I. Cantabile, ma un poco adagio
16. Sonata for Violin and Piano in G Major, BWV 1019a: II. Adagio
17. Sonata for Violin and Piano in G Major, BWV 1019a: III. Allegro