Crisp, foot-tapping rhythms; clear-cut tunes; and occasionally weird-sounding harmonic shifts are all terms that well describe the four works on Chandos' Johann Friedrich Fasch: Orchestral Music, featuring Philadelphia-based Baroque ensemble Tempesta di Mare, a group formerly known as the Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra. All three-and-a-third works presented here are identified as being "premiere recordings." Fasch has so many things in terms of concerti and orchestral suites alone that it is not hard to imagine these works ...
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Crisp, foot-tapping rhythms; clear-cut tunes; and occasionally weird-sounding harmonic shifts are all terms that well describe the four works on Chandos' Johann Friedrich Fasch: Orchestral Music, featuring Philadelphia-based Baroque ensemble Tempesta di Mare, a group formerly known as the Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra. All three-and-a-third works presented here are identified as being "premiere recordings." Fasch has so many things in terms of concerti and orchestral suites alone that it is not hard to imagine these works are new to recordings. The "and a third" signifies the Andante in D FWVL: D15bis, which is an alternate movement to the Concerto in D FWVL: D15. This, the Concerto in B flat, FWV L:B3, and the oddly titled Overture Grosso in D, FWV K:D8, are performed from freshly minted scores from Prima La Music Editions in England, a firm that has introduced a large number of Fasch's works to the realm of publication; Fasch did not publish during his own lifetime.Fasch's instrumental works are...
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