The Long 17th Century: A Cornucopia of Early Keyboard Music

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Pienaar displays his collections thematically, connecting dances and variations, imitative and evocative works that suggest battles and birdsong, that paint portraits, tell stories and write... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2020, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 7th Feb 2020
Catalogue No: AV2415
Label: Avie
Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

BBC Music Magazine

April 2020

Instrumental Choice
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June 2020

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Picchi: Fitzwilliam Virginal Book: Toccata

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Tarquino Merula: Capriccio cromatico

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Arauxo: Tiento de medio registro de tiple de decimo tono

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Weckmann: Canzon (III) in D Minor

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Macedo, A: Ricercare a quatro de 4º tom

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Bruna: XI. Tiento de falsas 6º tono

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Gabrieli, G: Canzon quarta a4

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Couperin, L: Duo in G minor

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Ferrabosco, A I: Fantasia in G final

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Giralamo Frescobaldi: Fiori Musicali: Toccata cromaticha per l'elevatione

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Trabaci: Libro Primo: Gagliarda Seconda, Ottava

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Radino: Galliarda Seconda

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Philips, P: Pavan in G (the "1580" Pavan)

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Locke: Suite III in C: Prelude - Almain - Corant - Saraband - Jig

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Tisdale: Fitzwilliam Virginal Songbook: Almand

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Schildt: Paduana lagrima (after Dowland)

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Muffat, Georg: Partita IV in F (short version): Prelude – Rigaudon – Lepescheuses

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Froberger: Libro Quarto: Partita II in A: Allemande-Gigue-Courante-Sarabande

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Jacques C. de Chambonnières: Pavane l’Entretien des Dieux

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Jacquet de la Guerre: Pièces de clavecin, Livre 2: Rondeau in G Minor

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Tomkins: A sad Pavan for these distracted times

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Cooper, John: Fitzwilliam Virginal Book: A Maske

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Farnaby, G: Fitzwilliam Virginal Book: The Old Spagnoletta

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Scheidemann: Galliarda in D minor

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Kerll: Passacaglia in D

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Sweelinck: Mein junges Leben hat ein End

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Juan Bautista Cabanilles: Pasacalles de 1º tono

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Byrd: Walsingham

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Bull, J: Fitzwilliam Virginal Book: Ut, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La (I)

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Buxtehude: Variations on "La Capricciosa"

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Praetorius, M: Zwei Variationen: Nun lob, mein Seel, den Herren

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Kuhnau: Sonata Quarta "Hiskia agonizzante e risanato": Il lamento di Hiskia per la morte annociatagli e le sue preghieri ardenti – La di lui confidenza in Iddio – L’allegrezza del Rè convalescente

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Correa Braga: Batalha de 6º tom

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Pasquini, B: Toccata con lo Scherzo del Cucco

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Roux, G: La Favoritte

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Anglebert: Tombeau de Monsieur de Chambonnieres

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Bernardo Stroce: Ciaconna

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Daniel-Ben Pienaar presents “The Long 17th Century: A Cornucopia of Early Keyboard Music”, a two-and-a-half hour survey of 36 works, each by a different composer, many not recorded before on a modern piano.

The ever-inquisitive pianist Daniel-Ben Pienaar presents The Long 17th Century: A Cornucopia of Early Keyboard Music. The Long 17th Century refers to the period from the late 1500s to the early 1700s, an era noted for forward-thinking individuality and invention in all areas of life. This two-and-a-half hour recital surveys a pan-European variety of styles, genres and techniques, and comprises 36 works, each by a different composer, many not recorded before on a modern piano.

Critical acclaim for Daniel-Ben Pienaar

“a gloriously multi-faceted opus maximus ... Amazing and very much worth hearing” - Der

Spiegel (on Beethoven’s Complete Piano Sonatas, AV2320)

“dizzying virtuosity ... fresh, spontaneous, original readings that shed new light on the keyboard player’s Bible” - BBC Music Magazine (on J. S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, AV2299)

“One of the most completely satisfying surveys ever committed to disc.” - The Sunday Times

(on Mozart’s Complete Piano Sonatas, AV2209)

Reviews

April 2020

Pienaar displays his collections thematically, connecting dances and variations, imitative and evocative works that suggest battles and birdsong, that paint portraits, tell stories and write elegies. It’s a deeply personal selection that makes for a captivating sequence…Pienaar makes light work of the virtuosic pieces, with their flashing scales and filigree ornaments.

June 2020

What makes it work is not just the dazzling precision and clarity of Pienaar’s finger technique (though that is certainly a vital factor), but the intelligence that has gone into his interpretations...he also communicates an individual and convincing vision for each piece, enough for every one of them to give delight.

9th March 2020

The curator offers instinctive, sensitive, non-dogmatic performances, making this music seem perfectly suited to the modern piano.

The Long 17th Century: A Cornucopia of Early Keyboard Music

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