Sweelinck - Keyboard Works
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Label: Piano Classics
Cat No: PCL10280
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 8th March 2024
Contents
Works
Ballo del Granduca, SwWV319Fantasia 'Echo', SwWV261
Fantasia auf die Manier eines Echo in C major, SwWV253
More Palatino - Almande Gratie, SwWV318
Onder een linde groen (Unter der Linden grune), SwWV325
Soll es sein, SwWV330
Toccata, SwWV285
Toccata C2, SwWV283
Toccata Noni Toni, SwWV296
Toccata Noni Toni, SwWV297
Toccata Primi Toni, SwWV286
Toccata Secundi Toni, SwWV292
Toccata a 4 voc., SwWV298
Variations (6) on 'Mein junges Leben hat ein End', SwWV 324
Artists
Andrea Vivanet (piano)Works
Ballo del Granduca, SwWV319Fantasia 'Echo', SwWV261
Fantasia auf die Manier eines Echo in C major, SwWV253
More Palatino - Almande Gratie, SwWV318
Onder een linde groen (Unter der Linden grune), SwWV325
Soll es sein, SwWV330
Toccata, SwWV285
Toccata C2, SwWV283
Toccata Noni Toni, SwWV296
Toccata Noni Toni, SwWV297
Toccata Primi Toni, SwWV286
Toccata Secundi Toni, SwWV292
Toccata a 4 voc., SwWV298
Variations (6) on 'Mein junges Leben hat ein End', SwWV 324
Artists
Andrea Vivanet (piano)About
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 output comprises 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 over the 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 colouristic 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.
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