Bach: Sonatas for Violin and Keyboard / Kaakinen-Pilch, Hakkila

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Label
Ondine
Release Date
January 12, 2024
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Johann Sebastian Bach
    • PERFORMER
      Sirkka-Liisa Kaakinen-Pilch, Tuija Hakkila
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 12, 2024
    • UPC
      761195144626
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ODE 1446-2D
    • LABEL
      Ondine
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. Sonatas (6) for Violin and Keyboard, BWV 1014-19

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Sirkka-Liisa Kaakinen-Pilch (Violin), Tuija Hakkila (Fortepiano)


The son of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), Carl Philipp Emanuel, described his father’s Sonatas BWV 1014–1019 as among the best works his father ever wrote and continued to perform them extensively after his father’s death. This is music of implication and inference, the emotions no less real for their apparent lack of specificity. There is pleasure in the paradox: even without a text, the music sings. “They still sound very good and give me much joy, although they date back more than fifty years. They contain some Adagios that could not be written in a more singable manner today”, writes C. P. E. Bach. In these new recordings, some of the greatest exponents of Baroque music in the Nordic countries, violinist Sirkka-Liisa Kaakinen-Pilch and keyboardist Tuija Hakkila join forces. Tuija Hakkila plays copy of a Gottfried Silbermann fortepiano 1747 by Andrea Restelli — J. S. Bach played one of his fortepianos in 1747 in Potsdam for Frederick the Great and his court musicians.