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    Johann Mattheson - 12 Suites for Harpsichord - Gilbert Rowland (2017) {Athene ATH 23301 Official Digital Download}

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    Johann Mattheson - 12 Suites for Harpsichord - Gilbert Rowland (2017) {Athene ATH 23301 Official Digital Download}

    Johann Mattheson - 12 Suites for Harpsichord - Gilbert Rowland (2017) {Athene ATH 23301 Official Digital Download}
    FLAC (tracks) - 16bit/44kHz - Official Digital Download (chandos.net) -> 1.16 Gb | MP3 @320 -> 411 Mb
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    © 2017 Athene / Gilbert Rowland / Divine Art | ATH 23301
    Classical / German Baroque / Harpsichord

    Following the fine critical praise for his pioneering recording of the complete Harpsichord Suites of G.F. Handel, Gilbert Rowland moves to the lesser known but equally inspired Johann Mattheson (1681-1764) who composed these suites in 1714. Although generally following the then current Dance Suite format used so much by Bach, Handel and others, Mattheson created variety with different dances (such as the Tocatine) and varying numbers of movements.

    Certainly very musical and original, these Suites deserve to be considered on a level with those of Handel at the very least. Masterful performances by Gilbert Rowland who plays a 2-manual French-style instruments by Andrew Wooderson (2005) after an original from 1750 by Goemans.
    Johann Mattheson - 12 Suites for Harpsichord - Gilbert Rowland (2017) {Athene ATH 23301 Official Digital Download}

    The name of Johann Mattheson (1681-1764) appears frequently in books and articles about Baroque music, though seldom in connection with his own. As the most prolific and wide-ranging writer on music of his time he is still cited today, while Handel biographies rarely fail to mention how their man was nearly skewered by his friend Mattheson in a duel following a brief but fiery disagreement. As a composer, however, he is rarely discussed. Nearly all of his vocal output – eight operas and 26 oratorios – was lost to bombs in the Second World War, but among his surviving published compositions are these 12 harpsichord suites issued in London and Hamburg in 1714, works whose influence on the slightly later and stylistically kindred suites of Handel (and perhaps Bach) seems probable; Handel is said to have shut himself away and played them through from beginning to end when he received his copy.

    They turn out to be worth reviving. Skilfully made and loosely varied in form and texture, they encompass elegant broken-chord allemandes, a brash concerto-like Prelude (No 7), delicate and imaginative sarabandes such as that of No 8 and a full-textured Air with Doubles in No 6 reminiscent of the ‘Harmonious Blacksmith’. And if they come across as a touch ordinary at first, I found them growing on me as Mattheson’s personality became more apparent. There is a charm about the way his music sometimes makes quaint little stops and starts, and he even reveals a sense of good humour if the perhaps deliberately bad fugue that opens No 11 is anything to go by. I’ve not come across a boutade before but I like the one in Suite No 9.

    Gilbert Rowland’s playing is assured, robust and reliable, and if his tread is a sometimes a touch earthbound, maybe such moments reflect dips in Mattheson’s own creative concentration; certainly he is more successfully fired up by movements such as the ouvertures and the driving gigues of Nos 7 and 8. The fact that he is not note-perfect wouldn’t really matter were it not irritating to think that the small smudges he makes could easily have been repaired. The French-style harpsichord is deep-toned and clear if lacking in distinctive character.

    A tangier set was recorded by Colin Booth for Soundboard in 2007, more careful in places but in general more rhetorically eventful, while Cristiano Holtz’s sprightlier and slicker single disc of seven suites (not all complete) for Ramée from 2006 is a worthwhile option if three hours of Mattheson suites seems a daunting dose.
    Johann Mattheson - 12 Suites for Harpsichord - Gilbert Rowland (2017) {Athene ATH 23301 Official Digital Download}


    chandos.net INFO

    Musicians:
    Gilbert Rowland - Harpsichord

    Track Listing

    CD1

    01 - Pieces de clavecin, Suite No. 1 in D minor I. Prelude
    02 - Pieces de clavecin II. Allemande - Double
    03 - Pieces de clavecin III. Courante - Double
    04 - Pieces de clavecin IV. Sarabande
    05 - Pieces de clavecin V. Gigue
    06 - Pieces de clavecin, Suite No. 2 in A major I. Tocatine
    07 - Pieces de clavecin II. Allemande
    08 - Pieces de clavecin III. Courante
    09 - Pieces de clavecin IV. Gigue
    10 - Pieces de clavecin, Suite No. 3 in D major V. Air
    11 - Pieces de clavecin I. Allemande
    12 - Pieces de clavecin II. Courante
    13 - Pieces de clavecin III. Sarabande - Double
    14 - Pieces de clavecin IV. Gigue
    15 - Pieces de clavecin, Suite No. 4 in G minor I. Allemande
    16 - Pieces de clavecin II. Courante
    17 - Pieces de clavecin III. Courante a la Franc?oise
    18 - Pieces de clavecin IV. Sarabande
    19 - Pieces de clavecin V. Gigue
    20 - Pieces de clavecin VI. Menuet

    CD2
    01 - Suite No. 5 in C minor I. Fantasie
    02 - II. Allemande - Double
    03 - III. Courante
    04 - IV. Air - 2 Doubles
    05 - V. Menuet
    06 - Suite No. 6 in E flat major I. Prelude
    07 - II. Allemande
    08 - III. Courante
    09 - IV. Air - Double
    10 - V. Gigue
    11 - VI. Menuet
    12 - Suite No. 7 in B flat major I. Prelude
    13 - II. Allemande
    14 - III. Courante
    15 - IV. Gigue
    16 - V. Menuet
    17 - Suite No. 8 in D minor I. Allemande - Double
    18 - II. Courante - Double
    19 - III. Sarabande
    20 - IV. Gigue

    CD3
    01 - Suite No. 9 in G minor. I. Boutade
    02 - II. Allemande
    03 - III. Courantes I-II
    04 - IV. Air
    05 - V. Loure
    06 - VI. Gigue
    07 - Suite No. 10 in E minor I. Symphonie
    08 - II. Allemande
    09 - III. Courante
    10 - IV. Sarabande
    11 - V. Gigue
    12 - Suite No. 11 in C major I. Fugue
    13 - II. Ouverture
    14 - III. Allemande
    15 - IV. Courante
    16 - V. Sarabande
    17 - VI. Menuet
    18 - Suite No. 12 in F minor I. Ouverture
    19 - II. Allemande
    20 - III. Courante
    21 - IV. Sarabande
    22 - V. Gigue
    23 - VI. Menuets I-II

    Johann Mattheson - 12 Suites for Harpsichord - Gilbert Rowland (2017) {Athene ATH 23301 Official Digital Download}



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