Manuel Tomadin - J.S. Bach - Trio Sonatas BWV 525-530 (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/88]

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.

TRACKLIST

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



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