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FROBERGER unboxed: The Berlin Suites

by Dominic Eckersley: Harpischord

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Suite in D Minor: Toccata 04:39
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Suite in D Minor: Allemande 02:22
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Suite in D Minor: Courante 01:52
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Suite in D Minor: Sarabande 02:16
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Suite in D Minor: Gigue, nommee la rusée Mazarinique 02:09
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Suite in G Major: Toccata 03:43
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Suite in G Major: Allemande fait sur le Subject d'un Chemin Montaigneux, la quelle se joue à discretion 01:47
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Suite in G Major: Courante 02:01
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Suite in G Major: Sarabande 01:47
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Suite in G Major: Gigue 02:15
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Suite in F Major: Toccata 03:50
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Suite in F Major: Allemande faite en honneur de Madame la Duchesse de Wirtemberg, la quelle se joüe fort lenement et à discretion 04:57
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Suite in F Major: Courante 01:55
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Suite in F Major: Sarabande 02:20
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Suite in F Major: Gigue 02:34
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The first uploaded tracks of the new album, Froberger: The Berlin Suites. Each following movement will be uploaded as they are recorded. An interesting work in progress to follow along with and be part of. As a trailblazer of the breakaway "Indie Classical" movement these recordings attempt to present music in a realistic form rather than overly studio produced.

The Berlin Singakademie manuscript is a recently recovered volume of music by Johann Jakob Froberger in the hand of a contemporaneous copiest, probably an acquaintance of Froberger. It comprises six toccatas which are followed by six suites of dance movements in the same keys and in the same order as the toccatas, implying that the copyist intended each suite to be preceded by a toccata in the key of that suite. Folllowing the first six suites are a number of other suites in which the order of the movements sets a precedent. In most of the cases with these suites the second movement is not the expected Courante but a Gigue. This might reflect the lack of the dance-like triple metre sections in the toccatas which preluded the other suites. Some of the pieces within the suites have enigmatic or descriptive titles and might be considered to be programmatic pieces, in the broadest sense of the meaning, including a memorial piece for the composers own future death.

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released September 2, 2014

Performed by: Dominic Eckersley
Harpsichord: The Paris Workshop, 2001, Paris. After Phillip Denis 1674, Paris.
Tuning: a'=392 Hz
Temperament: ¼ comma meantone
Quilling: European crow
Dampers: Historical after Diderot
Strings: P-Wire iron by Stephen Birkett and Little Falls Alloys brass
Recorded: The EGG Box, Berlin, 27.08.14
© eckersley 2014

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Dominic Eckersley Berlin, Germany

Dominic Eckersley is an active harpsichord both as a soloist and ensemble musician and directs the historically informed ensemble EGG in Berlin. Of British extraction, he has lived on four continents and currently resides in Berlin. Dominic not only performs and records music of the Renaissance and Baroque periods but also publishes academic articles on Early Music. ... more

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