Artist: Manuel Tomadin
Title: J.S. Bach: Trio Sonatas BWV 525-530
Year Of Release: 2023
Label: Brilliant Classics
Genre: Classical
Quality: 24 Bit (88,2 KHz / tracks + booklet)
Total Time: 79:52 min
Total Size: 1,3 GB

Tracklist:

01. Organ Sonata No. 1 in E-Flat Major, BWV 525: I. (Without Tempo Indication)
02. Organ Sonata No. 1 in E-Flat Major, BWV 525: II. Adagio
03. Organ Sonata No. 1 in E-Flat Major, BWV 525: III. Allegro
04. Organ Sonata No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 526: I. Vivace
05. Organ Sonata No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 526: II. Largo
06. Organ Sonata No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 526: III. Allegro
07. Organ Sonata No. 3 in D Minor, BWV 527: I. Andante
08. Organ Sonata No. 3 in D Minor, BWV 527: II. Adagio e Dolce
09. Organ Sonata No. 3 in D Minor, BWV 527: III. Vivace
10. Organ Sonata No. 4 in E Minor, BWV 528: I. Adagio Vivace
11. Organ Sonata No. 4 in E Minor, BWV 528: II. Andante
12. Organ Sonata No. 4 in E Minor, BWV 528: III. Un poc' Allegro
13. Organ Sonata No. 5 in C Major, BWV 529: I. Allegro
14. Organ Sonata No. 5 in C Major, BWV 529: II. Largo
15. Organ Sonata No. 5 in C Major, BWV 529: III. Allegro
16. Organ Sonata No. 6 in G Major, BWV 530: I. Vivace
17. Organ Sonata No. 6 in G Major, BWV 530: II. Lento
18. Organ Sonata No. 6 in G Major, BWV 530: III. Allegro

Highpoints of virtuosity in Bach’s output and the Baroque organ repertoire, in new recordings by an organist with a rich catalogue of success on Brilliant Classics to his credit.

As well as a host of obscure composers, Manuel Tomadin has recorded many central figures in the organ repertoire, from Buxtehude to Rheinberger. His Bach discography includes the Leipziger Choräle, BWV 651-667 (94556) and an original ‘Harmonic Seasons’ album (95786) pairing preludes and fugues with chorales that tell a story of rebirth and quiescence through the four seasons.

For his latest album, he turns to undisputed highlights of the repertoire: the collection of six sonatas in three parts which Bach compiled in the late 1720s. By then he had settled into his post as Capellmeister in Leipzig, and with this set of works was evidently aiming to leave his contribution to the already rich literature of trio sonatas which had originated some decades earlier in Italy and subsequently spread across Europe, as a means of crossing sacred and secular divides with music conceived for performance by either a single keyboard player or a chamber group of musicians.

Being Bach, however, he determined to produce not merely another volume in the library. While he drew the material for the trio sonatas from earlier pieces, he refined and adapted them with all the ingenuity and harmonic invention at his disposal, making the finished set among the most demanding pieces ever written for the organ, then or now.

The trio sonatas are accordingly often performed by a trio of chamber musicians, but there is a special freshness and virtuosity to be savoured when they are played, as here and as originally intended, by a single organist. As Manuel Tomadin notes in his valuable booklet introduction, the six sonatas run the gamut of expressive feeling, from a gravity of pathos in the central Largo of the C minor Sonata No.2 to the irrepressible joy of the finale to the C major No.5. He has made these new recordings on an instrument with an excellent Bachian pedigree: the Bosch/Schnitger organ (1686/1720) of the Hervormde church in the Dutch town of Vollenhove, and the booklet includes a full specification for the instrument.

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