Quantz: Complete Flute Sonatas, Vol. 1
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- Опубліковано 4 лип 2024
- The start of a prestigious and comprehensive recording project: the complete 200 Sonatas for Flute and Basso Continuo by Johann Joachim Quantz (1797-1873), for the first time in history! Played by the Hungarian baroque flute player Benedek Csalog with on harpsichord Dóra Pétery.
Composer: Johann Joachim Quantz
Artists: Benedek Csalog (Baroque flute) & Dóra Pétery (harpsichord)
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Johann Joachim Quantz was one of the greatest composers of his time, with a large oeuvre to his name. And while his work for flute has been enjoyed by flautists and audiences alike, it doesn’t seem to meet any of the criteria codified at the beginning of the 20th century for what constitutes ‘great’, ‘lasting’, ‘profound’ or ‘complex’ music. Nor does it meet the requirement set in modern times for the worth of a composer’s work to be measured in terms of the influence it has on the next generation. This is because, after having achieved a technical knowledge on par with his contemporaries, Quantz opted for the restrictive life of a court composer in the service of Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, who, though an educated man and amateur musician, had a conservative taste in music. Quantz’s music was therefore never ‘fashionable’, and his compositions failed to leave a mark on posterity.
Quantz’s oeuvre for the transverse flute includes around 300 concertos, 200 sonatas and dozens of chamber music works, yet until the middle of the 20th century, none of his sonatas and only one of his concertos had been performed in concert. Like the concertos, the sonatas are among the finest examples of the genre, integrating progressive composing techniques and a versatile form and structure. The chronology of the sonatas can only be ascertained to a point. For this first instalment in the recording of Quantz’s complete flute sonatas, the selection is linked neither to chronology nor to catalogue number. It features an early composition from Dresden (in B-Flat Major, QV 1:153) and showcases a variety of keys across the seven sonatas chosen. Despite the ad hoc order, by the end of the series all known original sonatas will have been covered.
This recording project aims to reconstruct coeval performance conditions as accurately as possible. These efforts include using a replica of an original flute built by Quantz, played at the original pitch (a whole tone lower than standard) and recording in a hall very similar in size, proportions and acoustics to the music hall in Potsdam where so many of Quantz’s famous music evenings took place. The microphone set up reproduces without any manipulation what the listener would hear at a performance in such a hall, from a distance of about five metres. In the endeavour we encountered several dilemmas, one being the choice of accompanying forces. It is known that at Frederick’s court the use of a keyboard instrument plus a string bass was considered optimal, but we do not know whether this was always realised in practice. In the end it was decided to record most of the sonatas with keyboards only. Another important question, then, was the choice of keyboard: harpsichord or fortepiano. While from the 1740s onwards Frederick had become acquainted with Gottfried Silbermann’s fortepianos and indeed purchased a number of them, the harpsichord remained an important accompanying instrument, and there were many of them at the court.
Tracklist:
Flute Sonata in B Minor, QV 1:167:
0:00:00 I. Siciliana
0:03:02 II. Allegro assai
0:06:12 III. Vivace
Flute Sonata in E Minor, QV 1:71:
0:08:49 I. Largo
0:10:54 II. Allegro
0:14:14 III. Vivace
Flute Sonata in G Major, QV 1:112:
0:17:46 I. Cantabile
0:21:32 II. Allegro di molto mà fièro
0:26:21 III. Vivace, mà gracioso
Flute Sonata in E Minor, QV 1:76:
0:31:11 I. Adagio
0:34:27 II. Allegretto
0:37:49 III. Presto
Flute Sonata in B-Flat Major, QV 1:153:
0:39:43 I. Cantabile
0:41:28 II. Alla breve
0:43:14 III. Vivace
Flute Sonata in F Major, QV 1:87:
0:45:57 I. Arioso
0:49:03 II. Allegro
0:52:00 III. Presto
Flute Sonata in G Major, QV 1:97:
0:54:22 I. Arioso
0:58:11 II. Allegro assai
1:00:41 III. Vivace
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Flute Sonata in B Minor, QV 1:167:
0:00:00 I. Siciliana
0:03:02 II. Allegro assai
0:06:12 III. Vivace
Flute Sonata in E Minor, QV 1:71:
0:08:49 I. Largo
0:10:54 II. Allegro
0:14:14 III. Vivace
Flute Sonata in G Major, QV 1:112:
0:17:46 I. Cantabile
0:21:32 II. Allegro di molto mà fièro
0:26:21 III. Vivace, mà gracioso
Flute Sonata in E Minor, QV 1:76:
0:31:11 I. Adagio
0:34:27 II. Allegretto
0:37:49 III. Presto
Flute Sonata in B-Flat Major, QV 1:153:
0:39:43 I. Cantabile
0:41:28 II. Alla breve
0:43:14 III. Vivace
Flute Sonata in F Major, QV 1:87:
0:45:57 I. Arioso
0:49:03 II. Allegro
0:52:00 III. Presto
Flute Sonata in G Major, QV 1:97:
0:54:22 I. Arioso
0:58:11 II. Allegro assai
1:00:41 III. Vivace
In the description, you've got the years of his life wrong by a century 😂
@@antoinepetrov Yes, I think it should be 1697-1773.
This was how I started the morning, and it was beautiful.
Wunderschöne und detaillierte Interpretation dieser sieben kompakten und fein komponierten Sonaten im veränderlichen Tempo mit mildem doch gut phrasiertem Ton der genialen Barockflöte und zurückgehaltenem doch schimmerndem Klang des ebenso genialen Cembalos. Der intime und perfekt entsprechende Dialog zwischen den beiden Virtuosen ist wahrlich beeindruckend. Faszinierend vom Anfang bis zum Ende!
An excellent performance and wonderful tempi, you could hear the music flow effortlessly, it wasn’t a trace to see who was fastest among flutists.
Thank you for the great music that cheered me up today
Benedek Csalog Hungarian flautist ... From 1987 he studied the baroque flute with Barthold Kuijken at The Royal Conservatory in The Hague, where he graduated in 1991. ...
From 1992 to 2008 he was a teacher of the Baroque flute and chamber music at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Leipzig. From 2005 to 2008 he also taught at the Bydgoszcz Academy of Music in Poland, and was a guest teacher for Baroque Performance Practice at the Faculty of Music of the Széchenyi István University of Győr (Hungary) from 2016-2019 ...
Thank you! 🌻
Complete Flute Sonatas are brilliant and makes Happy🤗 Thank's very much 👍❤
So grateful for your sharing luscious sounds with your fans!
My usually favorite flute pieces!
Fantastic! Great work to record the complete Quantz sonatas🎉
absolutely beatiful~~~❤💎💎
💝💝💝 TY
Vil. 2 plz
Some composers are ill-treated in music history books. Quantz is one of them. But his music is simply a mirable. The more I know JS Bach's comtemporaries the more I recognized that he was one among many and not the best... We have benn lied about the music history.
brillient fluting🤠