Muthel - Duets & Sonatas for Harpsichord
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 96344
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 3
Release Date: 8th July 2022
Contents
Works
Divertimento in B flat majorDuet in C major
Duetto in E flat major for 2 keyboards
Keyboard Sonata no.1 in F major
Keyboard Sonata no.2 in G major
Keyboard Sonata no.3 in C major
Artists
Anne Clemente (harpsichord)Giacomo Benedetti (harpsichord)
Works
Divertimento in B flat majorDuet in C major
Duetto in E flat major for 2 keyboards
Keyboard Sonata no.1 in F major
Keyboard Sonata no.2 in G major
Keyboard Sonata no.3 in C major
Artists
Anne Clemente (harpsichord)Giacomo Benedetti (harpsichord)
About
The Duet in E flat is one of the very first musical scores to feature the word ‘fortepiano’, a sign of the burgeoning public interest in the new instrument that would become the keyboard of choice for the Romantic period, better equipped to reveal the performer’s state of mind than the more ‘mechanical’ harpsichord. The movement names (cantabile, con affetto) and performance instructions (dolce, crescendo, decrescendo) suggest the dynamic fortepiano, while the long trills and other embellishments are associated with the harpsichord tradition.
The Duet in C reveals the influence of J.C. Bach’s keyboard sonatas Op.5 and contains innovative elements combined with expert use of rhetorical gestures. The bright and elegant Divertimento in B flat plays with the emotions with varied, sometimes chivalrous writing.
The three sonatas for harpsichord, published in Nuremberg in 1756, were Müthel’s first publication. Their compositional style is highly idiomatic and eclectic, and the themes are developed confidently, with abrupt passages and sudden changes in emotion that epitomise Sturm und Drang writing.
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