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Baroque Colours  

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Martin Stadtfeld

Release Date: 11/03/2023

On "Baroque Colours" Martin Stadtfeld plays a personal selection of short original works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Friedrich Händel, Domenico Scarlatti as well as the great French baroque composers François Couperin and Jean-Philippe Rameau on a modern grand piano. But Stadtfeld has also selected pieces by lesser-known composers for the first part of the album, such as Johann Kuhnau, Baldassare Galuppi, Antonio Soler and Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer.

For the second part of "Baroque Colours" Stadtfeld has chosen works that are particularly close to his heart and arranged them anew for piano. Among them are piano versions of famous pieces such as the "Summer" and the "Winter" from Antonio Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" or Johann Pachelbel's Canon, of which he created a version for piano four hands and recorded it with pianist Lilian Akopova. The latter is also his partner in the versions, also for four hands, of the first prelude from Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier and the "Passacaglia" from Lully's opera "Armida".

In addition, Stadtfeld improvises on "Baroque Colours" on musical themes by Bach (including the famous Air) and by Handel, but also on lesser-known works - by Johann Kuhnau or Melchior Vulpius (Four Improvisations on "Ach bleib mit Deiner Gnade") as well as on Corelli's violin sonata "La Follia".

The double album, which was released on November 3 by Sony Classical on CD, vinyl and digital, was created as a co-production between Westdeutscher Rundfunk and Sony Classical.

Tracklisting

All DiscsDisc 1Disc 2

Disc 1

  1. Neue Clavier-Übung I, Partie V in G Major: Prelude
  2. Neue Clavier-Übung I, Partie V in G Major: Gigue
  3. L'art de toucher le clavecin: Prelude No. 7 in B-Flat Major
  4. Pièces de clavecin, Sixième ordre: No.5 in B-Flat Major, "Les Baricades Misterieuses"
  5. Sonata in D Minor, BWV 964: III. Andante
  6. Sonata in F Minor, K.466
  7. Sonata in A Minor, K.54
  8. Suite in B-Flat Major, HWV 434 / I. Prelude
  9. Suite in B-Flat Major, HWV 434 / II. Allegro (Sonata)
  10. Suite in B-Flat Major, HWV 434 / III. Aria con Variazioni
  11. Suite in E Minor, RCT 2: IV. Gigue en rondeau II
  12. Suite in E Minor, RCT 2: VIII. Tambourin
  13. Passatempo al cembalo, Sonata No. 3 in C Minor / I. Allegro moderato
  14. Passatempo al cembalo, Sonata No. 3 in C Minor / II. Allegro
  15. Sonata No. 21 in C-Sharp Minor, R.21
  16. Pièces de clavecin: IV. Tambourins, Suite des Matelots
  17. Pièces de clavecin: XIV. Le Marche des Scythes
  18. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue in E-Flat Major, BWV 876 / I. Praeludium
  19. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue in E-Flat Major, BWV 876 / II. Fuga

Disc 2

  1. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Prelude No. 1 in C Major, BWV 846 (Arr. for Piano four hands by Martin Stadtfeld)
  2. Armide, LWV 71, Act V: Passacaglia (Arr. for Piano four hands by Martin Stadtfeld)
  3. Canon, P.37 (Arr. for Piano four hands by Martin Stadtfeld)
  4. The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act II: Hush, no more, be silent (Arr. for Piano by Martin Stadtfeld)
  5. The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act V: Chaconne (Arr. for Piano by Martin Stadtfeld)
  6. Four Seasons Summer Variation (After Violin Concerto in G Minor, Op. 8, No. 2, RV 315: III. Presto)
  7. Four Seasons Winter Variation (After Violin Concerto in F Minor, Op. 8, No. 4, RV 297, III. Allegro-Lento)
  8. Trumpet Concerto in D Major, TWV 51:D7: IV. Allegro (Arr. for Piano by Martin Stadtfeld)
  9. Canarios (Arr. for Piano by Martin Stadtfeld)
  10. Praise (After Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Dank sei Dir, Herr)
  11. Piano Improvisation 1 (After Prelude from Neue Clavier-Übung I, Partie V)
  12. Piano Improvisation 2 (After Prelude from Neue Clavier-Übung I, Partie V)
  13. Minuet Piano Meditation 1 (After Minuet in D Minor, BWV Anh.132 from Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach)
  14. Minuet Piano Meditation 2 (After Minuet in D Minor, BWV Anh.132 from Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach)
  15. Air Piano Meditation (After Air from Orchestral Suite No. 3, BWV 1068)
  16. Fugue Piano Meditation (After Fugue for Organ in G Minor, BWV 578)
  17. Chaconne Piano Meditation (After Chaconne in G Major, HWV 435)
  18. Sarabande Piano Meditation (After Sarabande from Suite in D Minor, HWV 437)
  19. Aria Piano Meditation (After "Eternal Source of Light Divine" from Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne, HWV 74)
  20. Folia Piano Variation 1 (After Violin Sonata in D Minor, Op. 5, No. 12)
  21. Folia Piano Variation 2 (After Violin Sonata in D Minor, Op. 5, No. 12)
  22. Prelude Piano Variation (After Prelude from Violin Sonata in F Major, Op. 5, No. 10)
  23. Piano Improvisation 1 (After "Ach bleib mit deiner Gnade")
  24. Piano Improvisation 2 (After "Ach bleib mit deiner Gnade")
  25. Piano Improvisation 3 (After "Ach bleib mit deiner Gnade")
  26. Piano Improvisation 4 (After "Ach bleib mit deiner Gnade")
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