At 15/04/2001 09:16, "dcc" wrote:

> Much more interesting tho very slightly less directly to the point is Bob van
> Asperen's new recording of the Programmatic Suites, the 1st vol. of his Froberger
> edition, Aeolus AE-10024.  {See http://aeolus-music.com/startseite.htm}  The
> playing is inventive, subtle, exciting;  these adjectives apply as much to single
> notes as to the whole.  These are qualities I missed in Remy's recording.  Bob
> uses the 1640 Ruckers @ Schloss Ahaus, on which Leonhardt recorded Froberger long
> ago {60s} for harmonia mundi.
>
> 11.5 [CDbook-]pages of notes {Eng/Ger/Fr} by Bob himself describe Froberger's
> programs in detail, discuss number symbolism & the 'meaning' of various musical
> gestures, &c.  Nowhere did I read that Bob uses the *text* of the newly dicovered
> MS, but he does use titles from it which were not known before its discovery.
>
> Highly recommended!  Don't know about its availability in the US.
>
> Dale
>



I completely agree concerning Bob van Asperen's Froberger
records: Two mpnths ago, I bought « le passage du Rhin », first volume of this Edition. And I was fantastically impressed...

It is very different from Leonhardt's playing (I think I have all his Froberger's recordings): Leonhardt's playing is deep, tragic, metaphysical, dizzy...; but van Asperen is more human, touching, evident. And his virtuosity is tremendous, and serving a very baroque rhetoric.

Leonhardt is sublime, but austere. Asperen is really perfect. The instrument is fantastic, too, and the recording is very beautiful (better than most Leonhardt's -except the last one [Froberger/Weckmann]...).

The text included is also highly interested...

Jean Yves Garet, Vannes, France




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