Eleven String Baroque

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BACH / WEISS / PACHELBEL / COUPERIN / BARON / ROMAN / KELLNER
Eleven String Baroque
Goran Sollscher, guitar

[ Deutsche Grammophon / CD ]

Release Date: Thursday 12 August 2004

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Göran Söllscher returns to his first love, the music of the Baroque Era - interpreted on his magnificent 11-string guitar - with a new programme of popular favourites and musical rarities.

Here is a beautifully sequenced Baroque album to the successful Schubert for Two , featuring such popular melodies as Bach's Air on a G string, and two Minuets from the famous Notebook of Anna Magdalena Bach, as well as rarities by well-known composers, like Pachelbel's Suite in F sharp minor and Couperin's Les baricades mistérieuses.

A Suite in G major by Johann Anon Logy is receiving its world-première recording: Göran found the music manuscript in the library of his home town in Sweden.

All pieces are performed on the 11-string guitar, giving an incredibly rich, sustained sound, as well as adding an octave to the bottom of its register - as if combining the sound of a guitar with that of the lute.

The Galaxy Studio in Mol, Belgium provided an ideal recording venue - it's probably the quietest studio in the world, with no extraneous noise, thus allowing us to capture the instrument's full range and resulting in a recording of extraordinary clarity.

The CD booklet includes an informal interview with Göran Söllscher

Tracks:

SILVIUS LEOPOLD WEISS (1686 - 1750)
1. Passacaille in D major [3'26]
D-dur - en ré majeur
Arr.: Göran Söllscher - transposed to C major

JOHANN PACHELBEL (1635 - 1706)
Suite for Harpsichord in E minor [8'15]
Cembalosuite e-moll - Suite pour clavecin en mi mineur
2. 1. Allemande [2'55]
3. 2. Courante [1'57]
4. 3. Sarabande [1'40]
5. 4. Gigue [1'42]
Arr.: Göran Söllscher - transposed to G minor

DAVID KELLNER (1670 - 1748)
6. Fantasia in F major [1'27]
F-dur - en fa majeur
Arr.: Gunnar Spjuth

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685 - 1750)
7. Air [4'11]
from: Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major
aus: Orchestersuite (Ouvertüre) Nr. 3 D-dur
de: Suite pour orchestre no 3 en ré majeur, BWV 1068
Arr.: Börje Sandquist - transposed to F major

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH / CHRISTIAN PETZOLD (1677 - 1733)
8. Menuet in G major [3'35]
Menuet in G minor
from the 2nd Notebook for - aus dem 2. Notenbuch der
du 2e Petit livre d'Anna Magdalena Bach
Arr.: Göran Söllscher - transposed to B flat major/B flat minor

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Sonata No. 1 for Solo Violin in G minor, BWV 1001 [14'40]
g-moll - en sol mineur
9. 1. Adagio[3'12]
10. 2. Fuga[5'16]
11. 3. Siciliano[3'08]
12. 4. Presto[3'03]
Arr.: Göran Söllscher

JOHANN HELMICH ROMAN (1694 - 1758)
13. Andante [1'20]
from: Assagio No. 1
Arr.: Per-Olof Johnson
14. Bourrée [1'44]
from: Assagio No. 2
Arr.: Per-Olof Johnson

ERNST GOTTLIEB BARON (1696 - 1760)
15. Aria [3'28]
from the Sonata for Lute in G major
Arr.: Gunnar Spjuth - transposed to B flat major

FRANÇOIS COUPERIN (1668 - 1733)
16. Les baricades mistérieuses [2'44]
from the 2nd Book for Harpsichord Pieces
aus dem 2. Buch der Cembalowerke
du Second livre de pièces de clavecin
Arr.: Göran Söllscher

JOHANN ANTON LOGY (1650 - 1721)
Suite in G major [9'04]
G-dur - en sol majeur
17. 1. Allemande [3'32]
18. 2. Courante [2'11]
19. 3. Menuet [1'36]
20. 4. Gigue [1'45]
Arr.: Göran Söllscher - transposed to B flat major

SILVIUS LEOPOLD WEISS
21. Tombeau sur la mort de Mr. Comte de Logy (1721) [7'37]
on the death of Count Logy - auf den Tod des Grafen Logy
Adagio
Arr.: Göran Söllscher