William Dongois, Stefan Legée, Pierre-Alain Clerc, Le Concert Brisé - Dietrich Buxtehude: Sonatas with Cornett (2014)

Tracklist

01. Sonata in B-Flat Major, Op. 1, No. 4, BuxWV 255
02. Prelude in G Minor, BuxWV 163: Praeludium in G Minor, BuxWV 163
03. Sonata in C Minor, Op. 2, No. 4, BuxWV 262
04. Nun lob, mein Seel, den Herren, BuxWV 213
05. Nun lob, mein Seel, den Herren, BuxWV 214
06. Sonata in F Major, Op. 1, No. 1, BuxWV 252
07. Nun lob, mein Seel, den Herren, BuxWV 212
08. Fugue in C Major, BuxWV 174
09. Sonata in A Minor, BuxWV 272



Stimulated by the sheer pleasure of playing Buxtehude’s extraordinary chamber music, Le Concert Brisé and William Dongois have taken the liberty of selecting some of his sonatas for violin, viol and continuo and adapting them for cornett, sackbut and concertante organ.

Not only do certain passages prove to be entirely natural for wind instruments but violinists complain about the awkward nature of these sonatas, whose idiom is at least as typical of the keyboard as of the string family. These are not intended to be a ‘musicologically correct’ version of the sonatas; rather a plausible view of what could well have been the practice of the time.

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