C.P.E. Bach: Complete Works for Keyboard & Violin

C.P.E. Bach: Complete Works for Keyboard & Violin

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Duo Belder Kimura
Rie Kimura (baroque violin)
Pieter-Jan Belder (fortepiano & harpsichord)

Amsterdam-based period violin and keyboard ensemble, Duo Belder Kimura, make their Resonus Classics debut with a comprehensive and compelling survey of the complete works for violin and keyboard by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach across two discs.

Rising star violinist Rie Kimura and prolific keyboardist and recording artist Pieter-Jan Belder combine to breathe new life into these remarkable and challenging jewels of the early violin and keyboard repertoire in a collection that also includes the Fantasia in F-sharp minor, Wq. 80 and Arioso with Variations in A major, Wq. 79.

Album Booklet (PDF)

Tracklist

Disc One

Sonata in C major, Wq. 73
1. Allegro di molto
2. Andante
3. Allegretto

Sonata in F major, Wq. 75
4. Allegro
5. Larghetto
6. Allegro

Sinfonia in D major, Wq. 74
7. Allegro
8. Andante
9. Tempo di minuetto

Sonata in B minor, Wq. 76
10. Allegro moderato
11. Poco andante
12. Allegretto siciliano

13. Fantasia in F-sharp minor, Wq. 80

Disc Two

Sonata in B-flat major, Wq. 77
1. Allegro di molto
2. Largo
3. Presto

Sonata in D minor, Wq. 72
4. Adagio ma non troppo
5. Allegro
6. Allegro

7. Arioso with Variations in A major, Wq. 79

Sonata in C minor, Wq. 78
8. Allegro moderato
9. Adagio ma non troppo
10. Presto

Sonata in D major, Wq. 71
11. Poco adagio
12. Allegro
13. Adagio
14. Menuet I & II

'This impressively comprehensive study of all CPE Bach’s work for keyboard and violin [...] is intelligently and elegantly conveyed by the distinguished Amsterdam-based players Rie Kimura, violin, and Pieter-Jan Belder, keyboards. Recommended.'

- The Observer

'This impressively comprehensive study of all CPE Bach’s work for keyboard and violin [...] is intelligently and elegantly conveyed by the distinguished Amsterdam-based players Rie Kimura, violin, and Pieter-Jan Belder, keyboards. Recommended.'
The Observer

'The dazzling duo partnership of violinist Rie Kimura and keyboard player Pieter-Jan Belder delivers rich dividends on all musical fronts, their pooled technique truly formidable, while their mastery of CPE Bach’s sound-world (which in this instance was originated over a long period) is evidently the result of careful study.'
Classical Ear (5 stars)

'[...] Pieter-Jan Belder's sparkling accounts. [...] Violinist RIe Kimura's playing is supple and stylish [...] throughout, their response to the younger Bach's rhetoric is keenly felt'
BBC Music Magazine

'Kimura coaxes a lyrical flexibility from her violin, its sonorous tone enhanced by her restrained but telling vibrato usage, notably in the Adagio of the C minor Sonata. [...] Belder, too, plays with a spontaneity and sense of timing that allow the music to breathe, and he negotiates the juxtaposition of figured bass and fully notated episodes in, for example, the Sonata in B minor with a degree of smooth efficiency.'
The Strad

'[...] there is enough variation to keep one listening throughout, and the quality of the playing is never in doubt'
Lark Reviews

Credits
© 2017 Resonus Limited
Ⓟ 2017 Resonus Limited
Catalogue No. RES10192
Producer, engineer & editor: Adam Binks
EAN: 5060262790977
Release date: 30 June 2017
Cover image: Photography by Rudi Wells