17 OCT 2024 - Welcome Back to TorrentFunk! Get your pirate hat back out. Streaming is dying and torrents are the new trend. Account Registration works again and so do Torrent Uploads. We invite you all to start uploading torrents again!
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621) enjoyed a great reputation in his time that spread throughout northern Europe and Scandinavia. He attracted pupils from afar, Heinrich Scheidemann, Jacob Praetorius and Samuel Scheidt being the most famous. Sweelinck's influence can, therefore, be said to have reached Buxtehude and Bach through his teaching and compositions: He was not only the founder of the true fugue but a splendid player and teacher whose profound influence on northern European keyboard music particularly lasted long after his death.
Sweelinck's extant keyboard outputcomprises some 70 pieces, of which 14 are represented here in an original sequence of alternating toccatas, fantasias and variation sets. The precise instrument for which each of the pieces was written cannot always be determined with certainty. While the song variations suit either harpsichord or virginal, the fantasias and toccatas may well have been played on whatever keyboard instrument was to hand, including the organ.
Especially in his Variation pieces on popular songs such as ‘More Palatino’ and ‘Onder een linde groen’. Sweelinck shows himself as one of the supreme masters of the form. He retains the structure of his themes throughout each set, but his mastery and inventiveness is shown in the shaping of the inner structures of each variation. The complexity of polyphony can change overthe course of one single variation, and the sets as a whole make use of the whole spectrum of compositional structures, from the most plain to the most elaborate.
The Italian pianist Andrea Vivanet takes a historically informed approach to Sweelinck’s music on the piano. He incorporates graceful ornamentation, and stylistic features necessitated by the limits of early keyboards, but he also takes full advantage of the expressive and coloristic capabilities of the modern instrument. His previous recordings have displayed a refined and imaginative approach to 20th-century composers such as Ravel and Shostakovich, but Vivanet brings a welcome precision of touch to Sweelinck that makes him sound at home on the piano.
VISITOR COMMENTS (0 )
FILE LIST
Filename
Size
01. Toccata noni toni, SwWV 297.mp3
11.6 MB
02. Echo fantasia (à 4 Écho), SwWV 261.mp3
7.5 MB
03. Toccata, SwWV 283.mp3
8.7 MB
04. Variations on More Palatino, SwWV 318.mp3
6.3 MB
05. Toccata secondi toni, SwWV 292.mp3
12.9 MB
06. Variations on - Mein junges Leben hat ein End - SwWV 324.mp3
12.9 MB
07. Toccata à 4, SwWV 298.mp3
15.7 MB
08. Variations on - Onder een linde groen - SwWV 325.mp3
11.8 MB
09. Toccata 9 toni, SwWV 296.mp3
9.9 MB
10. Variations on - Soll es sein - SwWV 330.mp3
17.5 MB
11. Toccata primi toni, SwWV 286.mp3
8.2 MB
12. Variations on - Ballo del granduca - SwWV 319.mp3
