The Imaginary Music Book of J.S. Bach Café Zimmermann

• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750):
• 1Bach: Wir danken Dir, Gott, BWV 29: Sinfonia in D Major03:26
• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714 - 1788):
• 2Bach: Trio sonata in B-Flat Major, Wq. 161/2: I. Allegro06:11
• 3Bach: Trio sonata in B-Flat Major, Wq. 161/2: II. Adagio ma non troppo04:45
• 4Bach: Trio sonata in B-Flat Major, Wq. 161/2: III. Allegretto06:58
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791):
• 5Mozart: Adagio and Fugue KV 404a: Adagio e dolce (After Sonata No.3 in D Minor, BWV 527 by Johann Sebastian Bach)03:27
• 6Mozart: Adagio and Fugue KV 404a: Fugue - Allegro (After 'The Art of Fugue', BWV 1080 by Johann Sebastian Bach)07:00
• Johann Sebastian Bach:
• 7Bach: Wir danken Dir, Gott, BWV 29: Aria 'Hallelluja, Stärk’ und Macht' (Transcription for Four Instruments)04:42
• 8Bach: Himmelskönig, sei wilkommen, BWV 182: Sinfonia in G Major01:52
• 9Bach: Gott soll allein mein Herze haben, BWV 169: Aria 'Gott soll allein mein Herze haben'05:25
• 10Bach: Schwingt freudig euch empor, BWV 36: Aria 'Auch mit gedämpften, schwachen Stimmen' (Transcription for Four Instruments)06:17
• 11Bach: Ein ungefärbt Gemüthe, BWV 24: Aria 'Ein ungefärbt Gemüthe' (Transcription for Four Instruments)03:06
• 12Bach: Sonate sopr’il Soggetto Reale, BWV 1079: I. Largo05:15
• 13Bach: Sonate sopr’il Soggetto Reale, BWV 1079: II. Allegro05:50
• 14Bach: Sonate sopr’il Soggetto Reale, BWV 1079: III. Andante02:44
• 15Bach: Sonate sopr’il Soggetto Reale, BWV 1079: IV. Allegro03:09
• 16Bach: Vor deinen Thron tret ich hiermit, BWV 668 (Transcription for Four Instruments)04:17
• Total Runtime01:14:24

Info for The Imaginary Music Book of J.S. Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach has made the reputation of Café Zimmermann ever since the ensemble was formed in 1999. This new recording presents the music of the Leipzig Kantor from a different angle, that of the notebooks in which musicians wrote down pieces and movements they particularly liked. This recording brings together works composed by Bach in the late 1740s which may be described as intimate in character, including the famous trio sonata from his Musical Offering. The Baroque idiom of this ‘experimental’ sonata is contextualised by the innovative style developed by his son Carl Philipp Emanuel in one of his own trio sonatas. A number of arias by J. S. Bach are also presented here with exclusively instrumental forces. Under the direction of violinist Pablo Valetti and harpsichordist Céline Frisch, the ensemble even ventures into Mozartian territory with the Aria and Fugue K404a, taken from two pieces by Bach that Mozart himself had annotated and arranged in his own musical notebook. Finally, a chorale that Bach was particularly fond of, a threepart fugue played here by harpsichord and flute. Carl Philipp Emanuel had it printed at the end of his father’s musical testament, The Art of Fugue: ‘Before thy throne I now appear’.

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