Szabolcs Szilagyi & Laszlo Borbely – Bach, Complete Flute Sonatas, Volume I (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Szabolcs Szilagyi & Laszlo Borbely – Bach, Complete Flute Sonatas, Volume I (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 46:18 minutes | 2,06 GB | Genre: Classical
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Bach’s flute sonatas are particularly sensitive, penetrating and soul-stirring music. If I had to use a single word to describe the four sonatas on this disc, surprisingly, I would have to use something far from idyllic. But why should Bach be so idyllic? His perfect structures (far beyond the ‘idyllic’ sound we imagine) remind us of the tragedy of our finitude and imperfection. And perfection never ‘anaesthetises’. With Bach, even the simplest-seeming music (or movement) explores the darkest spheres (along with the lightest, of course) that the human psyche can scarcely imagine. Just listen to the soaring, inducible phrases of the slow movement of the Sonata in C Major, over and over again. Like the stems of a plant spreading towards the light, tirelessly bursting forward, upwards, towards the surface, towards the light. If you listen to it once with deep attention, you will never forget the opening movement of the Sonata in E Minor, with its almost brutal phrasing, and then the fiery even movements that rush in as a counterpoint. But also the shifting moods of the A Major Sonata in the two outer movements, or the ‘heartbeats missing’ in the slow movement. In these Bach prophetically foreshadows the rebellious structures of modernity. And we haven’t even mentioned the second movement in the Sonata in E flat Major, which evokes the Passions…

So these pieces really do speak to us! They contain content that cannot be expressed in words, and beyond that, they ask the ultimate questions of our humanity, and they do it for us. Bach’s language hides for us the evidence of a time before the turmoil of Babel.

Tracklist:
01. Szabolcs Szilagyi & Laszlo Borbely – J.S. Bach: Sonata in E-flat Major, BWV1031, Allegro moderato (03:35)
02. Szabolcs Szilagyi & Laszlo Borbely – J.S. Bach: Sonata in E-flat Major, BWV1031, Siciliana (02:50)
03. Szabolcs Szilagyi & Laszlo Borbely – J.S. Bach: Sonata in E-flat Major, BWV1031, Allegro (04:11)
04. Szabolcs Szilagyi & Laszlo Borbely – J.S. Bach: Sonata in C Major, BWV1033, Andante (01:56)
05. Szabolcs Szilagyi & Laszlo Borbely – J.S. Bach: Sonata in C Major, BWV1033, Allegro (02:19)
06. Szabolcs Szilagyi & Laszlo Borbely – J.S. Bach: Sonata in C Major, BWV1033, Adagio (02:03)
07. Szabolcs Szilagyi & Laszlo Borbely – J.S. Bach: Sonata in C Major, BWV1033, Menuet I. – Menuet II. – Menuet I. ab initio (03:03)
08. Szabolcs Szilagyi & Laszlo Borbely – J.S. Bach: Sonata in E Minor, BWV1034, Adagio ma non tanto (03:45)
09. Szabolcs Szilagyi & Laszlo Borbely – J.S. Bach: Sonata in E Minor, BWV1034, Allegro (02:31)
10. Szabolcs Szilagyi & Laszlo Borbely – J.S. Bach: Sonata in E Minor, BWV1034, Andante (04:05)
11. Szabolcs Szilagyi & Laszlo Borbely – J.S. Bach: Sonata in E Minor, BWV1034, Allegro (04:39)
12. Szabolcs Szilagyi & Laszlo Borbely – J.S. Bach: Sonata in A Major, BWV1032, Vivace (03:18)
13. Szabolcs Szilagyi & Laszlo Borbely – J.S. Bach: Sonata in A Major, BWV1032, Largo e dolce (03:19)
14. Szabolcs Szilagyi & Laszlo Borbely – J.S. Bach: Sonata in A Major, BWV1032, Allegro (04:39)

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