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Erich Höbarth, Alexander Rudin, Aapo Hakkinen – Schubert: Chamber Works (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:19:51 minutes | 1,43 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Naxos
Schubert’s Arpeggione Sonata may these days be firmly established in the cello repertoire, but the instrument for which Schubert originally intended it was of course its namesake – a curious and now-defunct six-stringed creation, played with a bow, that although fretted and tuned like a guitar, resembled a cello and was played vertically; and whose distinctive, feathery soft, stringy timbre sounds very much like a blend between those two instruments. Inevitably, actual arpeggione performances of this work are as rare as hens’ teeth, meaning the major draw of this particular offering from Russian cellist and historical performance expert Alexander Rudin is the fact that he’s on the actual instrument. So when you add the pretty delicacy of Aapo Häkkinen’s fortepiano, in timbre tones alone this is a very attractive recording; and for a moment where those already-ear-pricking timbres combine with the resonant acoustic to especially lovely effect, head to the first movement’s pizzicato writing.
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Erich Höbarth, Aapo Häkkinen – Bach, J.S.: Sonatas for violin & harpsichord (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:59:36 minutes | 2,35 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Aeolus
Almost every music lover has probably heard Erich Höbarth play at least once: active as Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s concertmaster, as first violinist of the Quatuor Mosaïques, and in many other positions of musical life, heard in numerous recordings and television broadcasts, he is an almost omnipresent figure. Höbarth unites historical performance practice with the self-assured poise of an individual artistic personality. The Viennese violinist has found here a congenial partner in the young Aapo Häkkinen from Helsinki, who, exactly like Höbarth, can already boast extensive experience as an ensemble director.
Violin and Harpsichord – these are namely the instruments that Bach himself played as ensemble director and as soloist, and that he brings together in the present sonatas as if at a chamber music summit meeting. Already in the eighteenth century, the six-sonata cycle BWV 1014–1019 numbered among his best works. Höbarth and Häkkinen captivate with wonderful ensemble playing. Aapo Häkkinen plays a – today rarely found – 16’ harpsichord, that is to say, with an additional, lower sounding register. It has been reported that Bach likewise had a 16’ instrument at his disposal in Köthen, where he composed the sonatas.
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Heinz Holliger, Erich Höbarth, Camerata Bern – Johann Sebastian Bach: Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis (2011)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 59:03 minutes | 606 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © ECM New Series
A recording to delight all admirers of Bach and the baroque oboe and a wonderful account of Heinz Holliger’s interpretive genius as a player: for many, he is the world’s greatest oboist. Factor in the long-established relationship between the Camerata Bern and Holliger which permits a real group understanding, Erich Hobarth’s exemplary violin, and superb ECM sound and we have here a special event. Holliger has recorded prolifically for the New Series, but this is his first disc for the label since the 1997 “Zelenka” album to address core classical repertoire, and these very popular pieces will find a broad public response.
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