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Tabea Debus; Tom Foster - Folio [CD]

Tabea Debus; Tom Foster - Folio [CD]

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Folio - Lessons from the Master. Works by Bach, Nante, Albinoni, Prince of Saxe-Weimar. Tabea Debus, recorder & Tom Foster, harpsichord / chamber organ.


"All one has to do is hit the right notes at the right times, and the instrument plays itself."


This might well be a note scribbled inside a portfolio of a student's lessons with Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach's responsibilities as a teacher inspired him to create a myriad of pieces for the benefit of his students, both in and outside his family. This imagined folio of lessons highlights various facets of music-making and learning: from copying and arranging, through accompanying and ornamenting, to explorations of style and technique.

There are several sets of pieces that Bach collated (also) with his lessons in mind, amongst them the 'Orgelbuchlein', the 'Little Organ Book', which he started whilst working in Weimar in 1708, and the so-called 'Inventions and Sinfonias', composed in the 1720s in Cothen for his son Wilhelm Friedemann and for "lovers of the clavier, and particularly those who desire to learn". He worked on the 'Orgelbuchlein' over many years, adding to it and making changes, presumably adapting to his student's needs. His inscription on the title page proclaims in a rhyming couplet that his compositions were "in praise for the Almighty's will, and for my neighbour's greater skill".

In the context of this programme two choral preludes and two 'Sinfonias' are used as "warm-ups", or preludes for five imagined lessons, functioning as the binding of the student's portfolio. Apart from furthering his students' abilities, posterity was very much on Bach's mind. He hoped that his pupils would go on to influence "the minds of other good students who are not satisfied with the ordinary lirum-larum."

Critically acclaimed recorder player Tabea Debus is joined on this new recording by harpsichordisc Tom Foster.

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Folio - Lessons from the Master. Works by Bach, Nante, Albinoni, Prince of Saxe-Weimar. Tabea Debus, recorder & Tom Foster, harpsichord / chamber organ.

"All one has to do is hit the right notes at the right times, and the instrument plays itself."

This might well be a note scribbled inside a portfolio of a student's lessons with Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach's responsibilities as a teacher inspired him to create a myriad of pieces for the benefit of his students, both in and outside his family. This imagined folio of lessons highlights various facets of music-making and learning: from copying and arranging, through accompanying and ornamenting, to explorations of style and technique.

There are several sets of pieces that Bach collated (also) with his lessons in mind, amongst them the 'Orgelbuchlein', the 'Little Organ Book', which he started whilst working in Weimar in 1708, and the so-called 'Inventions and Sinfonias', composed in the 1720s in Cothen for his son Wilhelm Friedemann and for "lovers of the clavier, and particularly those who desire to learn". He worked on the 'Orgelbuchlein' over many years, adding to it and making changes, presumably adapting to his student's needs. His inscription on the title page proclaims in a rhyming couplet that his compositions were "in praise for the Almighty's will, and for my neighbour's greater skill".

In the context of this programme two choral preludes and two 'Sinfonias' are used as "warm-ups", or preludes for five imagined lessons, functioning as the binding of the student's portfolio. Apart from furthering his students' abilities, posterity was very much on Bach's mind. He hoped that his pupils would go on to influence "the minds of other good students who are not satisfied with the ordinary lirum-larum."

Critically acclaimed recorder player Tabea Debus is joined on this new recording by harpsichordisc Tom Foster.

Track Listing

JS Bach: Das alte Jahr vergangen ist (BWV 614)

JS Bach: Flute Sonata in B Minor (BWV 1030) I. Andante

Largo e dolce

Presto

JS Bach: Sinfonia 7 (BWV 793)

JS Bach: French Suite No. 2 (BWV 813) I. Allemande

Courante

Sarabande

Air

Menuet 1 and 2

Gigue

Alex Nante: Luz de otono I. Semplice, nobile

Mercuriale

JS Bach: Sinfonia 13 (BWV 799)

Albinoni:Violin Sonata in A Minor (Op. 6, No. 6) I. Adagio

Allegro

Largo

Vivace

JS Bach: Wenn wir in hochsten Nothen sind (BWV 641)

Concerto in B-flat Major (BWV 982) - After violin concerto Op. 1, No. 1 by Johann Ernst Prince of Saxe-Weimar

Adagio, Allegro

Allegro, un poco presto

Details
  • Genre: Classical
  • Product Type: AUDIO CD
  • Barcode: 4250702801917
  • Release Date: June 06, 2025
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