The Imaginary Music Book of J.S. Bach

full of suave delights – and the recording is top notch. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2021, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Release Date: 8th Oct 2021
Catalogue No: ALPHA766
Label: Alpha
Length: 74 minutes

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Excerpt, Bach, J S: Cantata BWV29 'Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir'

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Sinfonia in D Major

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Bach, C P E: Trio Sonata in B flat major, Wq. 161 / 2 (H578)

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I. Allegro

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II. Adagio ma non troppo

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III. Allegretto

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Mozart: Preludes & Fugues (6) for string trio, K404a

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Adagio e dolce (After Sonata No.3 in D Minor, BWV 527 by Johann Sebastian Bach)

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Fugue - Allegro (After 'The Art of Fugue', BWV 1080 by Johann Sebastian Bach)

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Bach, J S: Cantata BWV29 'Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir': Hallelujah, Stärk und Macht

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Bach, J S: Cantata BWV182 'Himmelskönig, sei willkommen': Sinfonia

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Excerpt, Bach, J S: Cantata BWV169 'Gott soll allein mein Herze haben'

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Aria 'Gott soll allein mein Herze haben'

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Bach, J S: Cantata BWV36 'Schwingt freudig euch empor': Auch mit gedämptfen schwachen Stimmen

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Excerpt, Bach, J S: Cantata BWV24 'Ein ungefärbt Gemüte'

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Bach, J S: Trio Sonata from the Musical Offering, BWV1079

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I. Largo

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II. Allegro

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III. Andante

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IV. Allegro

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Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV668 'Vor deinen Thron tret' ich'

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Johann Sebastian Bach has made the reputation of Café Zimmermann ever since the ensemble was formed in 1999. This new recording presents the music of the Leipzig Kantor from a different angle, that of the notebooks in which musicians wrote down pieces and movements they particularly liked. This recording brings together works composed by Bach in the late 1740s which may be described as intimate in character, including the famous trio sonata from his Musical Offering. The Baroque idiom of this ‘experimental’ sonata is contextualised by the innovative style developed by his son Carl Philipp Emanuel in one of his own trio sonatas. A number of arias by J. S. Bach are also presented here with exclusively instrumental forces. Under the direction of violinist Pablo Valetti and harpsichordist Céline Frisch, the ensemble even ventures into Mozartian territory with the Aria and Fugue K404a, taken from two pieces by Bach that Mozart himself had annotated and arranged in his own musical notebook. Finally, a chorale that Bach was particularly fond of, a threepart fugue played here by harpsichord and flute. Carl Philipp Emanuel had it printed at the end of his father’s musical testament, The Art of Fugue: ‘Before thy throne I now appear’.

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December 2021

full of suave delights – and the recording is top notch.

January 2022

There are fewer of the rough edges of their early Bach offerings, and although I found these charming, the greater polish afforded here may well win them new friends.

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