Notes and Editorial Reviews
THE FRANS BRÜGGEN EDITION
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Frans Brüggen (rec, fl); Gustav Leonhardt (hpd, org); Bob van Asperen (hpd, org); Herbert Tachezi (hpd); Nikolaus Harnoncourt (vc, vdg); Alice Harnoncourt (vn); Anner Bylsma (vc); Concentus musicus Wien; Concerto Amsterdam; Leonhardt Consort; Amsterdam Ch O
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TELDEC 2564 65836-1 (12 CDs: 12:14:06)
As someone who has at best an ambivalent, and at worst thoroughly adversarial, relationship to computers, I view with trepidation the apparent ongoing demise of the compact disc in favor of MP3 files and similar
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formats that are replacing the comfortable security of a physical object that I can hold in my hand. For the moment, however, that demise-in-progress is bringing a temporary great boon to classical music lovers, in that various CD labels are pillaging their vaults to produce super-sized collections of past releases at super-budget prices. (Let’s hope Mayor Bloomberg in New York doesn’t get a notion to make them illegal.) The folks at Warner and Teldec have become particularly assiduous at this; however, whereas the Warner sets are notorious for their skimping on ancillary materials such as librettos and booklet notes, those by Teldec are laudable for their detailed provision of such accessories. That, and the generally high quality of the performances, makes them prime acquisitions.
The present set, showcasing the recorder artistry of Frans Brüggen, is an excellent example. It contains 12 discs (only four of which are currently in print separately) at a price of about four dollars per disc. A 76-page booklet provides scrupulously detailed documentation for every piece of music, including the makes of instruments used by each performer. (For some reason, the recording dates, executive producers, and recording venues are inconveniently listed separately in minuscule type on a separate page at the back, instead of with the other information for each disc.) It also includes numerous photos and an appreciative essay of Brüggen.
Of course, the real reason to acquire the set is not the packaging, but the artistry of Brüggen himself. Given that he turned from recorder playing to conducting some 30 years ago, and hence that virtually all of his solo and ensemble recordings of the instrument were made before the advent of digital recording, younger generations of classical music lovers may know of his instrumental career solely or largely by reputation only. (A testament to the age of these recordings is that not one of them has a review posted in the online
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Archive, entries for which now go back as far as Volume 12 in 1989.) For anyone who is in such a benighted state of ignorance, I can only suggest that you dispel that patch of musical darkness and acquire this set immediately to acquaint yourself with one of the founding figures of the early-music and period-performance movements. While Brüggen was not the one to revive the recorder as a major musical instrument—that honor belongs to Carl Dolmetsch (1911-1987), who taught Kees Otten, who in turn taught Brüggen—he was the one who established it on records, with a still astonishing technical facility and interpretive expressiveness that made him at his peak the baroque music equivalent of a rock star.
The recordings included in this set were made for Das Alte Werk between 1962 and 1979. In some instances the CDs preserve intact the contents of an earlier LP release; in others those contents are distributed over two or more CDs. The organization of this set (which does not follow any chronological pattern for either repertoire or recording dates) is as follows:
CD 1: Recorder sonatas and fantasias by Georg Philipp Telemann;
CD 2: Recorder sonatas, mostly by Italian composers (Francesco Barsanti, Diogenio Bigaglia, Nicolas Chédeville, Archangelo Corelli, Benedetto Marcello, and Francesco Veracini);
CD 3: Recorder ensemble music by English composers (William Babell, William Byrd, Robert Carr, Anthony Holborne, George Jeffreys, Thomas Morley, Andrew Parcham, Johann Christoph Pepusch, Henry Purcell, Thomas Simpson, John Taverner, and Christopher Tye);
CD 4: “Early Baroque Recorder Music” by Anonymous, Giovanni Paolo Cima, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Giovanni Battista Riccio, Samuel Scheidt, and Jacob van Eyck;
CD 5: “Late Baroque Chamber Music” for various ensembles by Johann Friedrich Fasch, Jean Baptiste Loeillet, Johann Mattheson, Johann Joachim Quantz, Alessandro Scarlatti, and Telemann;
CD 6: French recorder suites by Charles (or François—his correct first name is disputed) Dieupart and Jacques-Martin Hotteterre;
CD 7: Recorder sonatas by French composers (François Couperin, Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, Philibert de Lavigne, Louis-Antoine Dornel, and Anne Danican Philidor);
CD 8: Chamber concertos of Antonio Vivaldi;
CD 9: Recorder sonatas of Handel;
CD 10: Concertos and overtures by Telemann;
CD 11: Concertos and sonatas by Johann Sebastian Bach;
CD 12: Miscellaneous recorder concertos and sonatas by Jacques-Christophe Naudot, Giuseppe Sammartini, Handel, Loeillet, and Telemann.
Among the roster of notable accompanying artists are violinist Alice Harnoncourt; cellist Anner Bylsma; flautist Leopold Stasny (still misspelled “Stastny” as in the complete Bach edition I reviewed in 36:2, though here Brüggen’s first name is properly given as “Frans” instead of misspelled as “Franz”); harpsichordists Gustav Leonhardt, Bob van Asperen, and Herbert Tachezi. Nikolaus Harnoncourt appears as both a viola da gambist and as conductor of the Concentus musicus. That ensemble, and the Leonhardt Consort, Concerto Amsterdam, and Chamber Orchestra of Amsterdam, variously appear on CDs 8, 10, 11, and 12.
With the benefit of some 50 years of hindsight since the first of these recordings was made, they can at times sound just a tad stately and old-fashioned in spots (the somewhat foursquare Bach disc is the one item that is no longer competitive with the best performances available today). However, by and large they wear their age extremely well, both sonically and interpretively. More remarkable is the sound of Brüggen’s playing on his various instruments. Compared to the silken-smooth tone of recorder virtuosos from the succeeding generation—Michala Petri and Marion Verbruggen, to name just two—his tone sounds somewhat breathy and woody. One might analogously think of the difference in feel between cashmere wool and a sturdy homespun variety, though the difference here is less extreme. But the homespun variety has a distinctive feel and sturdy durability that are attractive in their own right, and of course the present plentiful crop of top-notch recorder players owe everything to Brüggen’s pioneering efforts. Listening to Brüggen, one still marvels at his tonal solidity, breath control, dead-on intonation, nimble fingering, and ability to shade such factors as dynamics or speed and intensity of vibrato to expressive effect, all allied to the kind of penetrating interpretive intelligence associated with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in the realm of Lieder. (Brüggen also did much of the scrupulous musicological research needed to bring many of these works back into the active performing repertoire.) Throughout the set he receives worthy support, though the one Telemann Concerto recorded with André Rieu (father of the pop violinist) and the Chamber Orchestra of Amsterdam is of an old-fashioned cast belonging to the decade just prior to the first blossoming of period-performance practice.
In sum, this set is a fitting tribute to Brüggen, in his 79th year and just 50 years past his recording debut, and ought to be an essential acquisition for all recorder aficionados and fanciers of baroque chamber music as well. Highest recommendation.
FANFARE: James A. Altena
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Works on This Recording
1.
Getreue Music-Meister: no 1, Sonata for Recorder and Basso Continuo in F major, TV 41 no F 2 by Georg Philipp Telemann
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder),
Gustav Leonhardt (Harpsichord),
Anner Bylsma (Cello)
Period: Baroque
Written: by 1728; Germany
2.
Fantasias (12) for Flute solo: no 3 in B minor, TV 40 no 4/P 25 no 3 by Georg Philipp Telemann
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Period: Baroque
Written: by 1733; Germany
3.
Getreue Music-Meister: no 28, Sonata in B flat major, TV 41 no B 3 by Georg Philipp Telemann
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder),
Gustav Leonhardt (Harpsichord),
Anner Bylsma (Cello)
Period: Baroque
Written: by 1728; Germany
4.
Fantasias (12) for Flute solo: no 8 in E minor, TV 40 no 9/P 25 no 8 by Georg Philipp Telemann
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Period: Baroque
Written: by 1733; Germany
5.
Essercizii musici, P 47: no 19, Solo for Recorder and Basso Continuo in C major, TV 41 no C 5 by Georg Philipp Telemann
Performer:
Gustav Leonhardt (Harpsichord),
Anner Bylsma (Cello),
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Period: Baroque
Written: by 1740; Germany
6.
Fantasias (12) for Flute solo: no 10 in F sharp minor, TV 40 no 11/P 25 no 10 by Georg Philipp Telemann
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Period: Baroque
Written: by 1733; Germany
7.
Fantasias (12) for Flute solo: no 1 in A major, TV 40 no 2/P 25 no 1 by Georg Philipp Telemann
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Period: Baroque
Written: by 1733; Germany
8.
Getreue Music-Meister: no 36, Sonata for Recorder and Basso Continuo in F minor TV 41 no f 1 by Georg Philipp Telemann
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder),
Anner Bylsma (Cello),
Gustav Leonhardt (Harpsichord)
Period: Baroque
Written: by 1728; Germany
9.
Fantasias (12) for Flute solo: no 11 in G major, TV 40 no 12/P 25 no 11 by Georg Philipp Telemann
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Period: Baroque
Written: by 1733; Germany
10.
Sonata for Recorder and Basso Continuo no 4 in D minor, TV 41 no d4 by Georg Philipp Telemann
Performer:
Gustav Leonhardt (Harpsichord),
Frans Brüggen (Recorder),
Anner Bylsma (Cello)
Period: Baroque
Written: Germany
11.
Fantasias (12) for Flute solo: no 7 in D major, TV 40 no 8/P 25 no 7 by Georg Philipp Telemann
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Period: Baroque
Written: by 1733; Germany
12.
Getreue Music-Meister: no 56, Sonata for Recorder and Basso Continuo in C major, TV 41 no C 2 by Georg Philipp Telemann
Performer:
Gustav Leonhardt (Harpsichord),
Frans Brüggen (Recorder),
Anner Bylsma (Cello)
Period: Baroque
Written: by 1728; Germany
13.
Sonatas (12) for Violin and Basso Continuo, Op. 5: no 12 in D minor "La Follia" by Arcangelo Corelli
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder),
Gustav Leonhardt (Harpsichord),
Anner Bylsma (Cello)
Period: Baroque
Written: 1700; Rome, Italy
14.
Sonatas (6) for Recorder/Violin and Basso Continuo, Op. 1: no 2 in C major by Francesco Barsanti
Performer:
Anner Bylsma (Cello),
Frans Brüggen (Recorder),
Gustav Leonhardt (Harpsichord)
Period: Baroque
Written: by 1727; London, England
15.
Sonatas (12) for Violin/Recorder and Basso Continuo: no 2 in G major by Francesco Maria Veracini
Performer:
Anner Bylsma (Cello),
Gustav Leonhardt (Harpsichord),
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Period: Baroque
Written: by 1716; Italy
16.
Sonata for Recorder and Basso Continuo in A minor by Diogenio Bigaglia
Performer:
Gustav Leonhardt (Harpsichord),
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Period: Baroque
17.
Sonatas (6) for Recorder and Basso Continuo, Op. 13 "Il pastor fido": no 6 in G minor by Nicolas Chédeville
Performer:
Gustav Leonhardt (Harpsichord),
Anner Bylsma (Cello),
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Period: Baroque
Written: 1737
18.
Sonatas (12) for Recorder and Basso Continuo, Op. 2: no 11 in D minor by Benedetto Marcello
Performer:
Anner Bylsma (Cello),
Gustav Leonhardt (Harpsichord),
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Period: Baroque
Written: by 1712; Italy
19.
Sonatas (12) for Violin and Basso Continuo, Op. 5: no 4 in F major by Arcangelo Corelli
Performer:
Gustav Leonhardt (Harpsichord),
Frans Brüggen (Recorder),
Anner Bylsma (Cello)
Period: Baroque
Written: 1700; Rome, Italy
20.
Sonatas (12) for Violin/Recorder and Basso Continuo: no 6 in A minor by Francesco Maria Veracini
Performer:
Gustav Leonhardt (Harpsichord),
Anner Bylsma (Cello),
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Period: Baroque
Written: by 1716; Italy
21.
Pavan by Antony Holborne
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Brüggen-Consort
Period: Renaissance
Written: circa 1565-1602; England
Date of Recording: 03/1967-05/1979
Venue: Bennebroek, The Netherlands
Length: 1 Minutes 41 Secs.
22.
Galliard for viol consort by Antony Holborne
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Brüggen-Consort
Period: Renaissance
Date of Recording: 03/1967-05/1979
Venue: Bennebroek, The Netherlands
Length: 1 Minutes 12 Secs.
23.
The Honie-Suckle, almain by Antony Holborne
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Brüggen-Consort
Period: Renaissance
Written: circa 1565-1602; England
Date of Recording: 03/1967-05/1979
Venue: Bennebroek, The Netherlands
Length: 2 Minutes 0 Secs.
24.
The Sighes by Antony Holborne
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Brüggen-Consort
Period: Renaissance
Written: England
Date of Recording: 03/1967-05/1979
Venue: Bennebroek, The Netherlands
Length: 2 Minutes 5 Secs.
25.
The Night Watch, for viol consort by Antony Holborne
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Brüggen-Consort
Period: Renaissance
Written: circa 1565-1602; England
Date of Recording: 03/1967-05/1979
Venue: Bennebroek, The Netherlands
Length: 1 Minutes 15 Secs.
26.
Heigh-ho holyday by Antony Holborne
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Brüggen-Consort
Period: Renaissance
Written: circa 1565-1602; England
Date of Recording: 03/1967-05/1979
Venue: Bennebroek, The Netherlands
Length: 1 Minutes 6 Secs.
27.
In Nomine ŕ 4 by John Taverner
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Brüggen-Consort
Period: Renaissance
Written: 16th Century; England
Date of Recording: 03/1967-05/1979
Venue: Bennebroek, The Netherlands
Length: 1 Minutes 49 Secs.
28.
In Nomine "Crye" by Christopher Tye
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Brüggen-Consort
Period: Renaissance
Written: 16th Century; England
Date of Recording: 03/1967-05/1979
Venue: Bennebroek, The Netherlands
Length: 1 Minutes 45 Secs.
29.
In Nomine a 5 by William Byrd
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Brüggen-Consort
Period: Renaissance
Date of Recording: 03/1967-05/1979
Venue: Bennebroek, The Netherlands
Length: 3 Minutes 10 Secs.
30.
Bonny sweet Robin by Thomas Simpson
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Brüggen-Consort
Period: Renaissance
Written: England
Date of Recording: 03/1967-05/1979
Venue: Bennebroek, The Netherlands
Length: 3 Minutes 6 Secs.
31.
Browning a 5 by William Byrd
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Brüggen-Consort
Period: Renaissance
Written: by 1580; England
Date of Recording: 03/1967-05/1979
Venue: Bennebroek, The Netherlands
Length: 4 Minutes 27 Secs.
32.
First Booke of Canzonets to 2 Voyces: La Girondola by Thomas Morley
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Brüggen-Consort
Period: Renaissance
Written: by 1593; England
Date of Recording: 03/1967-05/1979
Venue: Bennebroek, The Netherlands
Length: 1 Minutes 13 Secs.
33.
First Booke of Canzonets to 2 Voyces: Il lamento by Thomas Morley
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Brüggen-Consort
Period: Renaissance
Written: by 1593; England
Date of Recording: 03/1967-05/1979
Venue: Bennebroek, The Netherlands
Length: 2 Minutes 13 Secs.
34.
La caccia, fantasia for instrumental consort by Thomas Morley
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Brüggen-Consort
Period: Renaissance
Written: by 1619
Date of Recording: 03/1967-05/1979
Venue: Bennebroek, The Netherlands
Length: 1 Minutes 25 Secs.
35.
Fantasia by George Jeffreys
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Brüggen-Consort
Period: Baroque
Date of Recording: 03/1967-05/1979
Venue: Bennebroek, The Netherlands
Length: 4 Minutes 1 Secs.
36.
Solo for alto recorder & viola da gamba in G by Andrew Parcham
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder),
Gustav Leonhardt (Harpsichord)
Period: Baroque
Length: 7 Minutes 33 Secs.
37.
Divisions upon an Italian, for recorder (from The delightful companion) by Robert Carr
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder),
Gustav Leonhardt (Harpsichord),
Anner Bylsma (Cello)
Period: Modern
Written: Italy
Date of Recording: 03/1967-05/1979
Venue: Bennebroek, The Netherlands
Length: 2 Minutes 44 Secs.
38.
Concerto for recorder & orchestra in D by William Babell
Performer:
Alda Stuurop (Violin),
Gustav Leonhardt (Harpsichord),
Antoinette van den Hombergh (Violin),
Lucy Van Dael (Violin),
Anner Bylsma (Cello),
Frans Brüggen (Recorder),
Marie Leonhardt (Violin)
Period: Baroque
Date of Recording: 01/1971-11/1971
Venue: Doopsgezinde Church, Amsterdam, The Neth
Length: 2 Minutes 42 Secs.
39.
Sonata no 4 in F major by Johann Christoph Pepusch
Performer:
Anner Bylsma (Cello),
Gustav Leonhardt (Harpsichord),
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Period: Baroque
Written: England
Date of Recording: 03/1967-05/1979
Venue: Bennebroek, The Netherlands
Length: 6 Minutes 22 Secs.
40.
Fantasia upon a Ground in D major, Z 731 by Henry Purcell
Performer:
Wouter Moller (Cello),
Walter van Hauwe (Recorder),
Kees Boeke (Recorder),
Bob van Asperen (Harpsichord),
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Period: Baroque
Written: circa 1680; England
Date of Recording: 07/1979
Venue: Doopsgezinde Kerk, Haarlem, The Netherla
Length: 4 Minutes 57 Secs.
41.
Der Fluyten Lust-hof: no 8, Pavane Lachrymae by Jan Jacob Van Eyck
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Period: Baroque
Written: by 1646; Netherlands
42.
Der Fluyten Lust-hof: no 47, Batali by Jan Jacob Van Eyck
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Period: Baroque
Written: by 1646; Netherlands
43.
Der Fluyten Lust-hof: no 3, Doen Daphne d'over schoone Maeght by Jan Jacob Van Eyck
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Period: Baroque
Written: by 1646; Netherlands
44.
Der Fluyten Lust-hof: no 28, Engels Nachtegaeltje by Jan Jacob Van Eyck
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Period: Baroque
Written: by 1646; Netherlands
45.
Il primo libro delle canzoni: no 2, La Bernardina in C major by Girolamo Frescobaldi
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Period: Baroque
Written: by 1628; Italy
46.
Sonatas (6) "Concerti ecclesiastici": Sonata in D major by Giovanni Paolo Cima
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
47.
Sonatas (6) "Concerti ecclesiastici": Sonata in G major by Giovanni Paolo Cima
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
48.
Canzon a 4 in A major by Giovanni Battista Riccio
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
49.
Canzon in A major "La rosignola" by Giovanni Battista Riccio
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
50.
Paduan ŕ 4 in D major by Samuel Scheidt
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
51.
Sonata in G major by Anonymous
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Period: Baroque
Written: Italy
52.
Tafelmusik, Part 2: no 2, Quartet for Recorder/Bassoon/Cello, 2 Flutes and Basso Continuo in D minor, TV 43 d 1 by Georg Philipp Telemann
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
53.
Quartet in G major by Johann Friedrich Fasch
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
54.
Quintet in B minor by Jean-B Loeillet
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
55.
Trio Sonata for Recorder, Flute and Basso Continuo in C major by Johann Joachim Quantz
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Period: Baroque
56.
Sonata in F major by Alessandro Scarlatti
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Period: Baroque
Written: Italy
57.
Sonata no 4 in G minor, Op. 1 no 3 by Johann Mattheson
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
58.
Suite for recorder in G major by Charles Dieupart
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder),
Gustav Leonhardt (Harpsichord)
Conductor:
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Length: 13 Minutes 5 Secs.
59.
Premiere Suitte de Pičces, for 2 flutes (or other instruments), Op. 4 by Jacques Hotteterre
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder),
Kees Boeke (Recorder)
Period: Baroque
Length: 15 Minutes 26 Secs.
60.
Suite for flute (or violin) & continuo No. 1 in A major by Charles Dieupart
Performer:
Anner Bylsma (Cello),
Gustav Leonhardt (Harpsichord),
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Period: Baroque
Written: 1701
Length: 5 Minutes 19 Secs.
61.
Sonata in C major "La barssan" by Philibert Delavigne
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
62.
Sonatas (6) for 3 Recorders, Op. 7: in D minor by Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Period: Baroque
Written: 1725; France
63.
Sonata for Recorder and Basso Continuo in D minor by Anne Danican Philidor
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Period: Baroque
Written: France
64.
Sonata a 3 in B flat major by Louis Antoine Dornel
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
65.
Pičces de clavecin, Book 3: Ordre 14 in D major/D minor - Le rossignol-en-amour by François Couperin
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Period: Baroque
Written: by 1722; Paris, France
66.
Concerto for Recorder in F major, RV 442 by Antonio Vivaldi
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Period: Baroque
Written: Venice, Italy
67.
Concerto for Recorder in C minor, RV 441 by Antonio Vivaldi
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Period: Baroque
Written: Venice, Italy
68.
Chamber Concerto for Recorder, Violin and Bassoon in D major, F 12 no 7/RV 92 by Antonio Vivaldi
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Period: Baroque
Written: Venice, Italy
69.
Chamber Concerto for Recorder, Oboe, Violin and Bassoon in G minor, RV 105 by Antonio Vivaldi
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Period: Baroque
Written: Venice, Italy
70.
Chamber Concerto for Recorder, Oboe, Violin and Bassoon in D major, RV 94 by Antonio Vivaldi
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Period: Baroque
Written: Venice, Italy
71.
Chamber Concerto for Recorder, Oboe and 2 Violins in C major, F 12 no 30/RV 87 by Antonio Vivaldi
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Period: Baroque
Written: Venice, Italy
72.
Chamber Concerto for Recorder and 2 Violins in A minor, RV 108 by Antonio Vivaldi
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Period: Baroque
Written: Venice, Italy
73.
Trio Sonata for Flute/Recorder/Violin, Violin and Basso Continuo in F major, HWV 389/Op 2 no 4 (5) by George Frideric Handel
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Period: Baroque
Written: circa 1718-1722; London, England
74.
Sonata for Recorder and Basso Continuo in G minor, HWV 360/Op. 1 no 2 by George Frideric Handel
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Period: Baroque
Written: circa 1726-1732; London, England
75.
Sonata for Recorder and Basso Continuo in F major, HWV 369/Op. 1 no 11 by George Frideric Handel
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Period: Baroque
Written: circa 1726-1732; London, England
76.
Sonata for Recorder and Basso Continuo in D minor, HWV 367a/Op. 1 no 9 by George Frideric Handel
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Period: Baroque
Written: circa 1726-1732; London, England
77.
Sonata for Recorder and Basso Continuo in C major, HWV 365/Op. 1 no 7 by George Frideric Handel
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Period: Baroque
Written: circa 1726-1732; London, England
78.
Sonata for Recorder and Basso Continuo in B flat major, HWV 377 by George Frideric Handel
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Period: Baroque
79.
Sonata for Recorder and Basso Continuo in A minor, HWV 362/Op. 1 no 4 by George Frideric Handel
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Period: Baroque
Written: circa 1726-1732; London, England
80.
Overture-Suite for Recorder, Strings and Basso Continuo in A minor, TV 55 no a 2 by Georg Philipp Telemann
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Period: Baroque
Written: Darmstadt, Germany
81.
Concerto for Flute in C major by Georg Philipp Telemann
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Period: Baroque
82.
Concerto ŕ 6 in F major by Georg Philipp Telemann
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
83.
Concerto for Harpsichord and 2 Recorders in F major, BWV 1057 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Period: Baroque
Written: circa 1738-1739; Leipzig, Germany
84.
Trio Sonata for 2 Flutes and Basso Continuo in G major, BWV 1039 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Period: Baroque
Written: circa 1720; Cöthen, Germany
85.
Concerto for Flute, Violin and Harpsichord in A minor, BWV 1044 "Triple Concerto" by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Period: Baroque
Written: circa 1730; Leipzig, Germany
86.
Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste, BWV 106 "Actus tragicus": no 1, Sonatina in E flat minor by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Period: Baroque
Written: by 1708; Mühlhausen, Germany
87.
Sonata for Treble Recorder and Basso Continuo in C minor by Jean-B Loeillet
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
88.
Concerto for Flute in F major by Giuseppe Sammartini
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
89.
Trio Sonata for Flute/Violin, Violin and Basso Continuo in B minor, HWV 386b/Op 2 no 1(b) by George Frideric Handel
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Period: Baroque
Written: by 1727; London, England
90.
Concerto for Recorder no 5 in G major, Op. 17 no 5 by Jacques-Christoph Naudot
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Period: Classical
91.
Sonata for Treble Recorder and Basso Continuo in G major by Jean-B Loeillet
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
92.
Concerto for Recorder and Flute in E minor by Georg Philipp Telemann
Performer:
Frans Brüggen (Recorder)
Period: Baroque
Written: Germany
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All his Oeuvres, different era.s , flute recorder July 10, 2013
By S Cohenroellvaneyck (SOUTH WENTWORTHVILLE, NSW) See All My Reviews
"I am very keen on recorder music, play it myself. Always had Mr Frans Bruggen as exemplar, and at last I found in ARCHIV DAS ALTE WERK the TOTALISATION, not just fragments or samples. Very satisfied with the wide variety of his artistic abilities here dis played. Cheers!"
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Excellent music & music-making, if taken in judic June 22, 2013
By D. Scamehorn (Kentwood, MI) See All My Reviews
"I bought this as a reference tool--I'm a self-taught recorder player, and both looking for performance models, as well as ideas for repertoire. These recordings dating from 1962-1979, and they live up to all my expectations and then some. Brüggen's playing is wonderfully sweet and clean, and the repertoire nets have been cast wide indeed. As if that weren't enough, the accompanying booklet gives painstaking detail about everybody's instruments--type, age & maker. Now, about the "judicious amounts"--I do place a jest here and there, but this is after all, 12 1/4 hours of recorder music. Draw your own conclusions!"
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GODFATHER OF THE RECORDER May 14, 2013
By Glenn S. (Puyallup, WA) See All My Reviews
"Since I first saw this collection was issued, I have been looking forward to ordering it. There are many new faces in the field of recorder players, and I drool when hearing some of them, but in terms of stylistic practices in both Renaissance and Baroque playing and creativity in ornamentation, Bruggen is still unexcelled in my mind.(The only one that comes close in this area is his star student Marion Verbruggen.) Bruggen has gone on to an illustrious career as a conductor and his group, the Orchestra of the 18th Century reflects the same great ness exhibited in his recorder playing. I was privileged to hear the BIG 3, Gustav Leonhardt, Anner Bylsma, and Bruggen about 20 years ago in Seattle. Bruggen hardly ever looked at his music, but instead concentrated mostly on looking across at Bylsma, and the result was a fantastic, very tight and highly musical ensemble. I definitely put it in the top 5 concert experiences of my life!"
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