Roberto Loreggian - Muffat: 12 Suites (2025) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Partita B2 in D Minor: I. Prélude
02. Partita B2 in D Minor: II. Allemande
03. Partita B2 in D Minor: III. Courante
04. Partita B2 in D Minor: IV. Siciliana
05. Partita B2 in D Minor: V. Bourrée
06. Partita B2 in D Minor: Vi. Menuet
07. Partita B2 in D Minor: VII. Finale (Allegro)
08. Partita B9 in F Major: I. Prélude (Vivace, Adagio, Allegro Adagio)
09. Partita B9 in F Major: II. Menuet I
10. Partita B9 in F Major: III. Fantaisie (Spiritoso)
11. Partita B9 in F Major: IV. Sarabande
12. Partita B9 in F Major: V. Bourrée
13. Partita B9 in F Major: Vi. Postillon (Spiritoso)
14. Partita B9 in F Major: VII. Menuet II, Trio, Menuet II
15. Partita B9 in F Major: VIII. Finale (Allegro)
16. Partita B43 in D Minor: I. Fantaisie (Vivace, Adagio)
17. Partita B43 in D Minor: II. Allemande (Tempo Moderato)
18. Partita B43 in D Minor: III. Hornpipe
19. Partita B43 in D Minor: IV. Gavotte en Rondeau (Moderato)
20. Partita B43 in D Minor: V. Sarabande
21. Partita B43 in D Minor: Vi. Menuet I
22. Partita B43 in D Minor: VII. Air (Spiritoso)
23. Partita B43 in D Minor: VIII. Menuet II, Trio, Menuet II
24. Partita B43 in D Minor: IX. Gigue
25. Partita B16 in A Major: I. Prélude (Adagio Staccato, Allegro, Adagio, Allegro)
26. Partita B16 in A Major: II. Allemande (Affetuoso)
27. Partita B16 in A Major: III. Courante
28. Partita B16 in A Major: IV. Sarabande
29. Partita B16 in A Major: V. Menuet
30. Partita B16 in A Major: Vi. Coquette (Vivace)
31. Partita B16 in A Major: VII. Gigue
32. Partita B15 in C Major: I. Prélude (Tempo Giusto, Allegro, Adagio, Allegro, Adagio)
33. Partita B15 in C Major: II. Menuet
34. Partita B15 in C Major: III. L'allégresse (Spiritoso)
35. Partita B15 in C Major: IV. Contrefaiseur (Moderato)
36. Partita B15 in C Major: V. Rondeau (Spiritoso)
37. Partita B15 in C Major: Vi. Sarabande
38. Partita B15 in C Major: VII. Passepied I, Passepied II, Passepied I
39. Partita B15 in C Major: VIII. Gigue
40. Partita B15 in C Major: IX. Marche
41. Partita B15 in C Major: X. Finale (Allegro)
42. Partita B19 'Parisien' in A Minor: I. Prélude
43. Partita B19 'Parisien' in A Minor: II. Allemande
44. Partita B19 'Parisien' in A Minor: III. Courante
45. Partita B19 'Parisien' in A Minor: IV. Sarabande
46. Partita B19 'Parisien' in A Minor: V. Ballet
47. Partita B19 'Parisien' in A Minor: Vi. Air en Rondeau (Affetuoso)
48. Partita B19 'Parisien' in A Minor: VII. Bourrée
49. Partita B19 'Parisien' in A Minor: VIII. Menuet (Tempo Moderato)
50. Partita B19 'Parisien' in A Minor: IX. Finale (Allegro)
51. Partita B36 in A Major: I. Prélude
52. Partita B36 in A Major: II. Allemande
53. Partita B36 in A Major: III. Courante
54. Partita B36 in A Major: IV. Menuet Anglais
55. Partita B36 in A Major: V. Sarabande
56. Partita B36 in A Major: Vi. Gavotte
57. Partita B36 in A Major: VII. Air en Menuet
58. Partita B36 in A Major: VIII. Gigue
59. Partita B6 in G Minor: I. Prélude
60. Partita B6 in G Minor: II. Le Bastard
61. Partita B6 in G Minor: III. Aria (Affetuoso)
62. Partita B6 in G Minor: IV. Bourrée
63. Partita B6 in G Minor: V. Menuet, Trio, Menuet
64. Partita B6 in G Minor: Vi. La Jalousie
65. Partita B6 in G Minor: VII. Gigue
66. Partita B6 in G Minor: VIII. Harlequinade
67. Partita B7 in D Major: I. Fantaisie (Vivace, Adagio)
68. Partita B7 in D Major: II. Allemande (Spiritoso)
69. Partita B7 in D Major: III. Courante1'26
70. Partita B7 in D Major: IV. Sarabande
71. Partita B7 in D Major: V. Rigaudon
72. Partita B7 in D Major: Vi. Menuet, Trio, Menuet
73. Partita B7 in D Major: VII. Gigue
74. Partita B7 in D: Major: VIII. Finale (Allegro)
75. Partita B37 in A Minor: I. Prélude (Adagio, Allegro, Adagio)
76. Partita B37 in A Minor: II. Allemande
77. Partita B37 in A Minor: III. Courante
78. Partita B37 in A Minor: IV. Gavotte
79. Partita B37 in A Minor: V. Sarabande
80. Partita B37 in A Minor: Vi. Paysan
81. Partita B37 in A Minor: VII. Passepied
82. Partita B37 in A Minor: VIII. Gigue
83. Partita B4 in F Major: I. Prélude
84. Partita B4 in F Major: II. Intrada
85. Partita B4 in F Major: III. Menuet I
86. Partita B4 in F Major: IV. Sarabande
87. Partita B4 in F Major: V. Rigaudon
88. Partita B4 in F Major: Vi. Menuet II, Trio, Menuet II
89. Partita B12 in D Minor: I. Prélude (Tempo Moderato, Vivace, Adagio)
90. Partita B12 in D Minor: II. Menuet I
91. Partita B12 in D Minor: III. Fantaisie (Vivace)
92. Partita B12 in D Minor: IV. Air (Affetuoso)
93. Partita B12 in D Minor: V. Bourrée
94. Partita B12 in D Minor: Vi. Ballet (Spiritoso)
95. Partita B12 in D Minor: VII. Gigue
96. Partita B12 in D Minor: VIII. Gavotte
97. Partita B12 in D Minor: IX. Menuet II, Trio, Menuet II
98. Partita B12 in D Minor: X. Finale (Vivace Ma Non Troppo)

Son of the better-known Georg Muffat, Gottlieb was also hawked around the courts of Europe by his father as a boy wonder of music, anticipating the course of Mozart’s early years under the self-interested care of Leopold. However, when at home, Gottlieb Muffat grew up in Vienna under the careful tutelage of Johann Joseph Fux, master of music at the Hofkapelle, a relationship which deepened once Georg died in 1704, when Gottlieb was just 14 years old.
In due course Fux pulled strings to get his talented pupil an official post, and this album of keyboard partitas offers ample proof that his faith in Gottlieb Muffat was justified. Their date is uncertain: during his lifetime, only two collections of his music were published, and after 1739 he seems to have broken off composition, focusing his energies on performing and teaching at the Hofkapelle.
Listeners familiar with the keyboard partitas by JS Bach will find a certain degree of common ground in the elegant sequence of French-style dances which are headed by a more exploratory Prelude. Muffat’s counterpoint may not be so rigorous, but his ear for a well-turned melody offers satisfying reward in its own right. The use of French, English and even Spanish titles to individual movements underlines the imaginative and fanciful qualities of the collection: see for example Postillon in the Suite in F major; Coquette in the Suite in A major; a Hornpipe in the Suite in D minor and the Intrada to the Suite in F.
As well as enthusiastically received albums of Pasquini, Gabrieli, Vivaldi and above all Frescobaldi, Roberto Loreggian has previously recorded the 1739 collection of Componimenti Musicali to which this new recording forms a sequel. Of his collection of Partitas by Telemann, Fanfare commented: ‘Without seeming driven, his playing is lively and well-articulated, and he is always sensitive to Telemann’s stylistic variety, whether it is tending, at any given moment, to the courtly or to the common.’

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