JS Bach: The Complete Flute Sonatas
Lisa Beznosiuk (flute), Paul Nicholson (harpsichord), Richard Tunnicliffe (cello) with Rachel Brown (flute) & Elizabeth Kenny (archlute)
Nicholson, Tunnicliffe, and Kenny engage with Beznosiuk and her musical ideas, creating excellent chamber music
JS Bach: The Complete Flute Sonatas
Lisa Beznosiuk (flute), Paul Nicholson (harpsichord), Richard Tunnicliffe (cello) with Rachel Brown (flute) & Elizabeth Kenny (archlute)
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Nicholson, Tunnicliffe, and Kenny engage with Beznosiuk and her musical ideas, creating excellent chamber music
About
These flute sonatas were written between about 1720 and 1741 at a time when the recorder was being superseded by the transverse flute. After about 1725 compositions specifically for or including recorder became increasingly rare, and these works are a celebration by Bach of the technical and expressive qualities and tonal colours newly available to him.
These are elegant and stylish performances, the use of authentic flutes adding a rich and mellow beauty to the quality of the sound.
Contents and tracklist
- Lisa Beznosiuk (flute), Paul Nicholson (harpsichord), Richard Tunnicliffe (cello)
- Lisa Beznosiuk (flute), Paul Nicholson (harpsichord)
- Lisa Beznosiuk (flute)
- Lisa Beznosiuk (flute), Rachel Brown (flute), Paul Nicholson (harpsichord), Richard Tunnicliffe (cello)
- Lisa Beznosiuk (flute), Paul Nicholson (harpsichord)
- Lisa Beznosiuk (flute), Elizabeth Kenny (lute), Richard Tunnicliffe (cello)
- Lisa Beznosiuk (flute), Paul Nicholson (harpsichord)
- Lisa Beznosiuk (flute), Paul Nicholson (harpsichord), Richard Tunnicliffe (cello)
- Lisa Beznosiuk (flute), Paul Nicholson (harpsichord)
Awards and reviews
Nicholson, Tunnicliffe, and Kenny engage with Beznosiuk and her musical ideas, creating excellent chamber music
October 2011
Beznosiuk's low-pitch Baroque flute is rich and dark in slow movements, and positively sparkles in fast figurations. This collection remains among the best on disc.
Early Music Review
The playing of the accompanying ensemble shares the distinction of the flautist … congratulations are well deserved all round
Beznosiuk plays accurately, with a huge dark sound and an easy-going fluency that makes these difficult pieces sound as easy as the first lessons in a Suzuki method class … this is a good, solid version of these fundamental works
These are performances I am going to be returning to again and again
