Fantasia by Tini Mathot

Tini Mathot

Fantasia

Format: CD
Label: Challenge Classics
UPC: 0608917226225
Catnr: CC 72262
Release date: 01 September 2014

1 CD

Label
Challenge Classics

UPC
0608917226225

Catalogue number
CC 72262

Release date
01 September 2014

"Tini Mathot enters this universe with a subtle awareness of these issues: she masters all ambiguities in the three rondos."

Diapason, 01-5-2015

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About the album

In his day C.P.E. Bach was often characterised as being an ‘original genius’. His compositions bear striking witness to this fertile originality. For a long time C.P.E. Bach was viewed as the most renowned Sturm und Drang composer. Rather than attempting to categorise C.P. E. Bach as belonging to a particular stylistic period, it is far better to view him as a highly individual and original composer. His keyboard music forms a unique oeuvre, without any equivalent in his day (incidentally, the word keyboard is used here to refer to clavichord, fortepiano and harpsichord). Freedom permeates this music, along with unexpected harmonic modulations, rhetoric, virtuosity, special effects, precisely notated articulations, every dynamic gradation, unlimited variety, abrupt stops and tempo changes. This all adds up to an absolutely unique and brilliant style.

This CD features three free fantasies (1784, 1786, 1787), three rondos (1778, 1779, 1780), a set of Folia variations (1778) and one sonata (1763). The majority of these works are from the series of keyboard works ‘for connoisseurs and amateurs’ published by C.P.E. Bach himself. With the exception of the sonata, all the works featured on this CD were composed in Hamburg during the final decade of his life. It is the older C.P.E. Bach speaking in these works, his fiery temperament and rich inventiveness undiminished.

De ongeëvenaarde Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Tijdens zijn leven werd Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, zoon van de bekende Johann Sebastian, vaak gekaraktiseerd als een 'origineel genie'. Voor lange tijd werd C.P.E. Bach gezien als de meest bekende 'Sturm und Drang' composer. Zijn composities getuigen van deze vruchtbare originaliteit. In plaats van te proberen C.P.E. Bach in te delen in een bepaalde stijlperiode, kunnen we hem beter zien als een zeer individuele en unieke componist. Zijn muziek voor toetsen vormt een bijzonder repertoire dat onvergelijkbaar is met de muziek van zijn tijdgenoten. De muziek is doordrongen van vrijheid met onverwachte harmonische modulaties, virtuositeit, speciale effecten, grote contrasten in dynamiek, abrupte pauzes en tempowisselingen en een ongelimiteerde variëteit. Dit alles komt samen in een briljante en absoluut unieke stijl.

Dit album bevat drie fantasia’s, drie rondo’s, een set van la foliavariaties en één sonate. De meerderheid van deze werken komt uit de serie van werken voor toetsen “voor kenners en amateurs,” gepubliceerd door C.P.E. Bach zelf. Met de uitzondering van de sonate zijn al deze werken gecomponeerd in Hamburg tijdens het laatste decennium van zijn leven. Het is de oude C.P.E. Bach die spreekt in deze woorden, met zijn onverminderde vurige temperament en enorme vindingrijkheid.

De werken worden uitgevoerd door Tini Mathot op een hammerflügel fortepiano die gemaakt is door Anton Walter (1752-1826). Het historische instrument brengt de muziek van C.P.E. Bach bijzonder dichtbij. Tini Mathot is een klavecenist die samen met haar man Ton Koopman een fenomeen is in de uitvoering van oude muziek in Nederland.

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach ist ein höchst individueller und einfallsreicher Komponist, dessen Klavier- bzw. Cembalomusik einzigartig ist und in seiner Zeit seinesgleichen sucht. Seine Musik ist durchdrungen von Freiheit, unerwarteten harmonischen Wendungen, Virtuosität und dem ein oder anderen Spezialeffekt. All dies hören Sie in den Werken dieser Aufnahme, die überwiegend Bachs Werken "für Kenner und Liebhaber" entstammen. Fast alle Werke auf dieser CD wurden in Hamburg im letzten Jahrzehnt des Komponisten verfasst, und aus ihnen spricht der ältere Bach, dessen feuriges Temperament und dessen Einfallsreichtum jedoch unvermindert sind, und Tini Mathot weiß das Feuer und die genialen Einfälle famos umzusetzen.

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Tini Mathot

Tini Mathot was born in Amsterdam. She studied piano and harpsichord at the Amsterdam Sweelinck Conservatory. She enjoys a close collaboration with her husband and former teacher Ton Koopman. Together they perform many popular and lesser known works, giving recitals and performing in chamber music projects in the major concert halls of Europe, the United States and Japan. Tini Mathot regularly appears as a soloist together with Ton Koopman in concertos for two (or more) harpsichords and orchestra. She has recorded double concertos of J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, J.F. Reichardt and C. Schaffrath with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. Tini Mathot is a member of the Corelli Ensemble, whose members include Reine-Marie Verhagen. The ensemble was awarded the Diapason d’Or in France for...

Tini Mathot was born in Amsterdam. She studied piano and harpsichord at the Amsterdam Sweelinck Conservatory.
She enjoys a close collaboration with her husband and former teacher Ton Koopman. Together they perform many popular and lesser known works, giving recitals and performing in chamber music projects in the major concert halls of Europe, the United States and Japan. Tini Mathot regularly appears as a soloist together with Ton Koopman in concertos for two (or more) harpsichords and orchestra. She has recorded double concertos of J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, J.F. Reichardt and C. Schaffrath with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra.
Tini Mathot is a member of the Corelli Ensemble, whose members include Reine-Marie Verhagen. The ensemble was awarded the Diapason d’Or in France for its recording of Haydn trios (with Andrew Manze and Jaap ter Linden), issued by Erato. The CD recording of Schubert’s ‘Winterreise’, sung by the baritone Klaus Mertens with Tini Mathot playing an original Rosenberger fortepiano, was released in 2005, followed by a recording of J.S. Bach’s organ trio sonatas with Reine-Marie Verhagen (recorder) and Tini Mathot (organ and harpsichord) in 2008, both CDs issued by Challenge Classics.
In her capacity as producer for Ton Koopman’s Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir and also for other ensembles, Tini Mathot has produced numerous CDs for Erato, Teldec and Antoine Marchand/Challenge Classics, among other labels. She is the producer of the complete series of Bach cantatas by Ton Koopman and the ABO&C as well as the Opera Omnia of Dieterich Buxtehude, which Ton Koopman is currently working on. In addition to these activities Tini Mathot teaches harpsichord at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague.  Tini Mathot plays on a fortepiano by Mathias Müller, Vienna c. 1810 (with a range of 6 octaves FF-f4, an Empire-style case with bronze fittings and Caryatid legs), from the collection of Edwin Beunk, Enschede (NL). The instrument is typical of the Viennese building style around 1810. Mathias Müller had a reputation as an innovator with regard to instruments and was ‘Kaiserlich-Königlich priviligiert’.

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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

It can't be easy to have been a son of the great Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach was undoubtedly very strict, and if you'd have any composition ambitions, you would have to find a way to step out of the shadow of your father. Luckily, his sons had everything going for them considering their music. Whereas the traditional Baroque music of their father slowly went out of fashion, most of Bach's sons managed to follow the new trends of the early Classicism. In other words: relatively simple, melodic music which is not too heavy on the listener, yet still very passionate. Carl Philipp Emanuel, Bach's fifth son, became the most outstanding among his siblings. Like each of Bach's sons, he received a...

Carl Philipp Emanuel, Bach's fifth son, became the most outstanding among his siblings. Like each of Bach's sons, he received a solid education from his father, en Carl Philipp developed into a remarkably talented keyboardist. Moreover, he became a prolific composer and of all Bach's sons, he was able to came closest to the quality of his father's work, albeit in a completely different style.

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Tini Mathot enters this universe with a subtle awareness of these issues: she masters all ambiguities in the three rondos.
Diapason, 01-5-2015

Recommendation of the month The recording captures the the superb sound of the historical instrument perfectly. A wonderful plea for the works of C. Ph. E. Bach.
Fono Forum, 16-2-2015