Szabolcs Szilágyi & László Borbély - J.S. Bach: Complete Flute Sonatas, Volume I (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/192]

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. J.S. Bach: Sonata in E-flat Major, BWV1031, Allegro moderato
02. J.S. Bach: Sonata in E-flat Major, BWV1031, Siciliana
03. J.S. Bach: Sonata in E-flat Major, BWV1031, Allegro
04. J.S. Bach: Sonata in C Major, BWV1033, Andante
05. J.S. Bach: Sonata in C Major, BWV1033, Allegro
06. J.S. Bach: Sonata in C Major, BWV1033, Adagio
07. J.S. Bach: Sonata in C Major, BWV1033, Menuet I. - Menuet II. - Menuet I. ab initio
08. J.S. Bach: Sonata in E Minor, BWV1034, Adagio ma non tanto
09. J.S. Bach: Sonata in E Minor, BWV1034, Allegro
10. J.S. Bach: Sonata in E Minor, BWV1034, Andante
11. J.S. Bach: Sonata in E Minor, BWV1034, Allegro
12. J.S. Bach: Sonata in A Major, BWV1032, Vivace
13. J.S. Bach: Sonata in A Major, BWV1032, Largo e dolce
14. J.S. Bach: Sonata in A Major, BWV1032, Allegro


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