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The title Méditation makes this release by harpsichordist Andreas Staier sound like a crossover outing, but instead, it is typical of the carefully argued programs this keyboardist has offered in the past, in his characteristic muscular style. Staier meditates on two short motifs that date back to before the Baroque; one is the second line of the Pange lingua chant, the other the bell-like octave-fifth-sixth-third that shows up in countless compositions, and he shows how these motifs were tied into the style of the High Baroque as it developed. Bach appears only at the end, with a pair of preludes and fugues; in Staier's words, he is at the "vanishing point" of the program. Prior to that are various pieces of the Baroque puzzle, including selections from the preludes and fugues of J.C.F. Fischer's Ariadne Musica, a likely model for Bach's own. A fugue from Fux's Gradus ad Parnassum, the most influential counterpoint text of the day, is also included. Staier also contributes some of his own compositions, devised during the COVID-19 lockdowns, that recognizably refer to the other ideas on the album but may, for some, break the mood. A highly thoughtful exegesis on Baroque style that is beautifully recorded at Berlin's Teldex studio and is, despite all the deep thinking, appealing in a visceral way.
© James Manheim /TiVo
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Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Martin Sauer, Producer, MasteringEngineer, RecordingEngineer, SoundEditor - Julian Schwenkner, MasteringEngineer, SoundEditor - Andreas Staier, MainArtist - Sebastian Nattkemper, SoundEngineer - Didier Martin, AAndRAdministrator, ExecutiveProducer - Louise Burel, ProductionAssistant
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Martin Sauer, Producer, MasteringEngineer, RecordingEngineer, SoundEditor - Julian Schwenkner, MasteringEngineer, SoundEditor - Andreas Staier, MainArtist - Johann Joseph Fux, Composer - Sebastian Nattkemper, SoundEngineer - Didier Martin, AAndRAdministrator, ExecutiveProducer - Louise Burel, ProductionAssistant
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Martin Sauer, Producer, MasteringEngineer, RecordingEngineer, SoundEditor - Julian Schwenkner, MasteringEngineer, SoundEditor - Andreas Staier, MainArtist - Sebastian Nattkemper, SoundEngineer - Didier Martin, AAndRAdministrator, ExecutiveProducer - Louise Burel, ProductionAssistant
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Martin Sauer, Producer, MasteringEngineer, RecordingEngineer, SoundEditor - Julian Schwenkner, MasteringEngineer, SoundEditor - Andreas Staier, MainArtist - Louis Couperin, Composer - Sebastian Nattkemper, SoundEngineer - Didier Martin, AAndRAdministrator, ExecutiveProducer - Louise Burel, ProductionAssistant
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Martin Sauer, Producer, MasteringEngineer, RecordingEngineer, SoundEditor - Julian Schwenkner, MasteringEngineer, SoundEditor - Andreas Staier, MainArtist - Sebastian Nattkemper, SoundEngineer - Didier Martin, AAndRAdministrator, ExecutiveProducer - Louise Burel, ProductionAssistant
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Martin Sauer, Producer, MasteringEngineer, RecordingEngineer, SoundEditor - Julian Schwenkner, MasteringEngineer, SoundEditor - Andreas Staier, MainArtist - Johann Jakob Froberger, Composer - Sebastian Nattkemper, SoundEngineer - Didier Martin, AAndRAdministrator, ExecutiveProducer - Louise Burel, ProductionAssistant
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Martin Sauer, Producer, MasteringEngineer, RecordingEngineer, SoundEditor - Julian Schwenkner, MasteringEngineer, SoundEditor - Andreas Staier, MainArtist - Sebastian Nattkemper, SoundEngineer - Didier Martin, AAndRAdministrator, ExecutiveProducer - Louise Burel, ProductionAssistant
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Martin Sauer, Producer, MasteringEngineer, RecordingEngineer, SoundEditor - Julian Schwenkner, MasteringEngineer, SoundEditor - Andreas Staier, MainArtist - Johann Jakob Froberger, Composer - Sebastian Nattkemper, SoundEngineer - Didier Martin, AAndRAdministrator, ExecutiveProducer - Louise Burel, ProductionAssistant
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Martin Sauer, Producer, MasteringEngineer, RecordingEngineer, SoundEditor - Julian Schwenkner, MasteringEngineer, SoundEditor - Andreas Staier, MainArtist - Johann Jakob Froberger, Composer - Sebastian Nattkemper, SoundEngineer - Didier Martin, AAndRAdministrator, ExecutiveProducer - Louise Burel, ProductionAssistant
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Anklänge. Six Pieces for Harpsichord (Andreas Staier)
Martin Sauer, Producer, MasteringEngineer, RecordingEngineer, SoundEditor - Julian Schwenkner, MasteringEngineer, SoundEditor - Andreas Staier, Composer, MainArtist - All Rights Reserved, MusicPublisher - Sebastian Nattkemper, SoundEngineer - Didier Martin, AAndRAdministrator, ExecutiveProducer - Louise Burel, ProductionAssistant
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Martin Sauer, Producer, MasteringEngineer, RecordingEngineer, SoundEditor - Julian Schwenkner, MasteringEngineer, SoundEditor - Andreas Staier, Composer, MainArtist - All Rights Reserved, MusicPublisher - Sebastian Nattkemper, SoundEngineer - Didier Martin, AAndRAdministrator, ExecutiveProducer - Louise Burel, ProductionAssistant
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Martin Sauer, Producer, MasteringEngineer, RecordingEngineer, SoundEditor - Julian Schwenkner, MasteringEngineer, SoundEditor - Andreas Staier, Composer, MainArtist - All Rights Reserved, MusicPublisher - Sebastian Nattkemper, SoundEngineer - Didier Martin, AAndRAdministrator, ExecutiveProducer - Louise Burel, ProductionAssistant
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Martin Sauer, Producer, MasteringEngineer, RecordingEngineer, SoundEditor - Julian Schwenkner, MasteringEngineer, SoundEditor - Andreas Staier, Composer, MainArtist - All Rights Reserved, MusicPublisher - Sebastian Nattkemper, SoundEngineer - Didier Martin, AAndRAdministrator, ExecutiveProducer - Louise Burel, ProductionAssistant
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Martin Sauer, Producer, MasteringEngineer, RecordingEngineer, SoundEditor - Julian Schwenkner, MasteringEngineer, SoundEditor - Andreas Staier, Composer, MainArtist - All Rights Reserved, MusicPublisher - Sebastian Nattkemper, SoundEngineer - Didier Martin, AAndRAdministrator, ExecutiveProducer - Louise Burel, ProductionAssistant
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Martin Sauer, Producer, MasteringEngineer, RecordingEngineer, SoundEditor - Julian Schwenkner, MasteringEngineer, SoundEditor - Andreas Staier, Composer, MainArtist - All Rights Reserved, MusicPublisher - Sebastian Nattkemper, SoundEngineer - Didier Martin, AAndRAdministrator, ExecutiveProducer - Louise Burel, ProductionAssistant
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Prelude and Fugue in E Major, BWV 878 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Martin Sauer, Producer, MasteringEngineer, RecordingEngineer, SoundEditor - Julian Schwenkner, MasteringEngineer, SoundEditor - Andreas Staier, MainArtist - Sebastian Nattkemper, SoundEngineer - Didier Martin, AAndRAdministrator, ExecutiveProducer - Louise Burel, ProductionAssistant
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Martin Sauer, Producer, MasteringEngineer, RecordingEngineer, SoundEditor - Julian Schwenkner, MasteringEngineer, SoundEditor - Andreas Staier, MainArtist - Sebastian Nattkemper, SoundEngineer - Didier Martin, AAndRAdministrator, ExecutiveProducer - Louise Burel, ProductionAssistant
2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2023 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Album review
The title Méditation makes this release by harpsichordist Andreas Staier sound like a crossover outing, but instead, it is typical of the carefully argued programs this keyboardist has offered in the past, in his characteristic muscular style. Staier meditates on two short motifs that date back to before the Baroque; one is the second line of the Pange lingua chant, the other the bell-like octave-fifth-sixth-third that shows up in countless compositions, and he shows how these motifs were tied into the style of the High Baroque as it developed. Bach appears only at the end, with a pair of preludes and fugues; in Staier's words, he is at the "vanishing point" of the program. Prior to that are various pieces of the Baroque puzzle, including selections from the preludes and fugues of J.C.F. Fischer's Ariadne Musica, a likely model for Bach's own. A fugue from Fux's Gradus ad Parnassum, the most influential counterpoint text of the day, is also included. Staier also contributes some of his own compositions, devised during the COVID-19 lockdowns, that recognizably refer to the other ideas on the album but may, for some, break the mood. A highly thoughtful exegesis on Baroque style that is beautifully recorded at Berlin's Teldex studio and is, despite all the deep thinking, appealing in a visceral way.
© James Manheim /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 17 track(s)
- Total length: 01:06:45
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Andreas Staier
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Alpha Classics
- Genre: Classical
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