Summerwinds Festival: Stefan Schilli, Kai Frömbergen, Bram van Sambeek, Ying Lai Green & Sergej Tcherepanov:
Shine and Glow – Final Concert
Stefan Schilli, Kai Frömbgen Oboe
Bram van Sambeek Bassoon
Ying Lai Green Double Bass
Sergej Tcherepanov Harpsichord, Organ
Baroque chamber music, grave, radiant, and glowing: Trio sonatas as dramatic chamber plays, with oboes as protagonists. This is rarely experienced – and exquisite when two of Germany's most respected oboists, Kai Frömbgen and Stefan Schilli, play the two melody voices. The third force in the ensemble is the figured bass, the harmonic and rhythmic foundation that Bram van Sambeek, Ying Lai Green, and Sergej Tcherepanov provide by improvising over the given bass lines.
The special allure of the trio sonata: the two upper voices are equal and constantly in dialogue. They imitate each other like echoes, are as close as question and answer, assertion and contradiction; they circle around each other, run parallel, intertwine and unravel, and then go their own ways again. Below them, the bass, pulsating or calm, colorful and full. It keeps the soloists in motion, carries their dialogue, or intervenes commentatively in the melodic events.
Shine and Glow: Jan Dismas Zelenka's trio sonatas are among the most beautiful ever and among the most extraordinary that European Baroque has to offer! They were created in 1721/22 at the court of Augustus the Strong in Dresden, one of the then most significant music centers in Europe. There, a court chapel with top musicians existed, where Zelenka had been employed as a double bassist and composer since 1710. The trio sonatas of the Bohemian stand out clearly from Handel's Italian-influenced trio sonatas, Hasse's vocally inspired, courtly elegant, and Fasch's rhythmically marked, orchestral sonata. Because they are extremely virtuosic and wonderfully lengthy, harmonically and contrapuntally idiosyncratic, at times extravagant or, in the best sense, eccentric, technically therefore highly demanding. Yet they are never overly intellectual, but always highly musical and expressive. Their rhythm takes hold and pushes forward, while the two oboe voices move against each other over the bass group. This is exciting and thrilling, especially when the bassoon pushes its way out of the bass accompaniment between the melodically leading oboes – and the trio sonata suddenly has four voices.
Shine and Glow
Joh. Friedrich Fasch (1688–1758): Sonata a 4 g-minor, FWV N:g1
Georg Friedrich Handel/William Babell (1690–1723): Overture "Rinaldo" & Lascia ch’io pianga
Georg Friedrich Fuchs (1752–1821): Trio sonata d-minor
Johann Adolph Hasse (1699–1783): Trio sonata d-minor
Georg Friedrich Handel (1685–1759): Trio sonata B-major, op. 2 No. 3, HWV 388
Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679–1745): Trio sonata No. 4 g-minor, ZWV 181 | Trio sonata No. 6 c-minor, ZWV 181
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