Esfahani, Mahan: Bach: Notebooks for Anna Magdalena
Esfahani, Mahan: Bach: Notebooks for Anna Magdalena
Format: CD
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Artist: Esfahani, Mahan
Label: Hyperion
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 034571283876
Genre: Classical
The presence in this collection of keyboard and vocal works of a sacred character has a meaning deeper than the frequently glib description of such music as minor and even imperfect corollaries to what is often imperfectly described as 'personal devotion'. These arias and chorales (nine in total, if one includes the setting of Jesus, meine Zuversicht from the 1722 manuscript) are overwhelmingly concerned with themes of contentment (both spiritual and domestic) and with the inner peace felt by a soul on it's arrival in the presence of a benevolent God. As the unknown author of the text for Gedenke doch, mein Geist, zurücke (track 36) states without any hint of despair: 'Inscribe these words on my heart and breast: / Be mindful that you must die.' Seeing as the attributions for these pieces to J S Bach are fairly airtight, it is not difficult to imagine such pieces as embodying musical and literary messages to one's partner in marriage. Whilst the works in Anna Magdalena's notebook are slight and of seemingly little value compared to the great suites and variations and virtuoso fantasies and fugues, they nonetheless manifest the entire spirit of a civilization whose values we would do well to understand with the same energy with which we master Bach's considerable demands on our technical and expressive abilities. Moreover, each of these works is a precious artefact surviving from a woman of whom so little is known that we lack even a representation of her very physical likeness. To know her, and to know the man who was Johann Sebastian Bach, we could do worse than to try our hands and voices at the music they considered worthy enough to accompany their innermost thoughts and actions and which filled the four corners of their living spaces.
Tracks:
1.1 Bach: Minuet in F major, BWVAnh113
1.2 Pezold: Minuets in G major / G minor, BWVAnh114 ; 115
1.3 Couperin: Rondeau in B flat major, BWVAnh183
1.4 Bach: Minuet in G major, BWVAnh116
1.5 Bach: Polonaise in F major, BWVAnh117
1.6 Bach: Minuet in B flat major, BWVAnh118
1.7 Bach: Polonaise in G minor, BWVAnh119
1.8 Bach: Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten, BWV691
1.9 Bach: Gib dich zufrieden, BWV510
1.10 Bach: Gib dich zufrieden, BWV511
1.11 Bach: Minuet in A minor, BWVAnh120
1.12 Bach: Minuet in C minor, BWVAnh121
1.13 C.P.E Bach: March in D major, BWVAnh122
1.14 C.P.E Bach: Polonaise in G minor, BWVAnh123
1.15 C.P.E Bach: March in G major, BWVAnh124
1.16 C.P.E Bach: Polonaise in G minor, BWVAnh125
1.17 Bach: Erbauliche Gedanken eines Tobackrauchers, BWV515a
1.18 Böhm: Menuet fait par Mons Böhm in G major
1.19 Bach: Musette in D major, BWVAnh126
1.20 C.P.E Bach: March in E flat major, BWVAnh127
1.21 Bach: Polonaise in D minor, BWVAnh128
1.22 Stölzel: Bist du bei mir, BWV508
1.23 Bach: Goldberg Variations 'Aria mit verschiedenen Veränderungen', BWV988 I. Aria
1.24 C.P.E Bach: Solo per il cembalo, BWVAnh129
1.25 Hasse: Polonaise in G major, BWVAnh130
1.26 Bach: The well-tempered Clavier Book 1, BWV846-869 No 01 in C major, BWV846. Movement 1. Prelude
1.27 J.C Bach: Rigaudon in F major, BWVAnh131
1.28 Bach: Warum betrübst du dich?, BWV516
1.29 Bach: Ich habe genug, BWV82 No 2. Recitativo. Ich habe genug
1.30 Bach: Ich habe genug, BWV82 No 3. Aria. Schlummert ein, ihr matten Augen
1.31 Bach: Schaffs mit mir, Gott, BWV514
1.32 Bach: Minuet in D minor, BWVAnh132
1.33 Bach: Willst du dein Herz mir schenken, BWV518
1.34 Bach: Dir, dir, Jehova, will ich singen, BWV299b
1.35 Bach: Wie wohl ist mir, o Freund der Seelen, BWV517
1.36 Bach: Gedenke doch, mein Geist, zurücke, BWV509
1.37 Bach: O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV513
1.38 Bach: Jesus, meine Zuversicht, BWV728
1.39 Bach: Minuet in G major, BWV841
1.40 Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel Bist du bei mir, BWV508
