SKU: HH.HH241-SOL
ISBN 9790708059837.
The second instalment of the three volume collection of Zinck’s complete keyboard music contains the printed sonatas which followed his enormously successful 1783 set together with the first appearance in print of two sonatas from a manuscript source in the Royal Library, Copenhagen. The published sonatas show Zinck’s mastery of the styles of both C.P.E. Bach (his teacher) and Haydn, while the manuscript works are simpler in their technical demands, but include original fingering from the composer. All the sonatas in this volume would be effective on either clavichord or fortepiano.
SKU: BR.OB-32108-11
ISBN 9790004343050. 10 x 12.5 inches.
Kuhnau's Magnificat in C major is - apart from his Biblical Sonatas - considered to be his most ambitious and best known work. However, as recent research has revealed, there are indeed many other large-scale works among his oeuvre which are largely presumed lost today, apart from those that were published as first editions. Until now, only insufficient or erroneous editions of the Magnificat have been available, a piano reduction has not been available at all. Beyond that, editor David Erler has succeeded in tracking down new evidence on the authorship of four Laudes (insertion movements for performances over Christmas) and to carry out their altogether new placement in the main work. He was able to prove that Bach's Magnificat directly succeeded Kuhnaus's work and that the use of such Laudes was common in Leipzig's parish churches and beyond.
SKU: HH.HH240-SOL
ISBN 9790708059738.
When Zinck's sonatas first appeared in print in 1783, the publication was greeted as exceptional by the best European critics: Their interesting melodic style, highly developed turns of phrase, great diversity of musical ideas unified into one great sonata style far removed from the routine, and finally, very descriptive tone painting, elevate them and make them worthy of the approval of connoisseurs.
SKU: HH.HH300-SOL
ISBN 9790708092490.
Carl Fasch was notoriously reluctant to have his music made public and even asked that much of it should be destroyed. What remains, however, supports the view of the contemporary writer on music Johann Reichardt that Fasch was the true successor to C. P. E. Bach, with whom he shared keyboard duties for Frederick the Great. In this first volume of his complete keyboard works, the six sonatas, which appeared in print and were well regarded during the composer's lifetime, show him to be a minor master and an eloquent advocate for the eclectic expressive style then current in Berlin.
SKU: HH.HH267-SOL
ISBN 9790708092162.
Though primarily known as an opera composer, Giovanni Paisiello did not neglect the instrumental repertoire. His Capriccio in D minor, written in St Petersburg for his pupil the Grand Duchess Maria Feodorovna and first published c.1799, is a fine example of this Southern Italian composer's keyboard style.