MARTIN STADTFELD Baroque Colours 2CD

W 2002 roku, po 14 latach nieprzyznawania pierwszej nagrody  jury Międzynarodowego Konkursu Bachowskiego w Lipsku zdecydowało się wskazać niekwestionowanego zwycięzcę - długo oczekiwanym laureatem pierwszego miejsca został 22-letni niemiecki pianista, któremu to spektakularne zwycięstwo w słynnym konkursie otworzyło drogę do międzynarodowej kariery.

Album " Baroque Colours" to wybór oryginalnych kompozycji Bacha, Scarlattiego, Händla i Rameau z nowymi, medytacyjnymi aranżacjami kultowych dzieł Vivaldiego, Bacha, Purcella, Händla i wielu innych. 

Tracklista:

CD 1 (original works)
1. Johann Kuhnau: Prelude from "Partie V" in G-Major
2. Johann Kuhnau: Gigue from "Partie V" in G-Major
3. Francois Couperin: Prélude No. 7 in B-Major
4. Francois Couperin: Les Barricades Mystérieuses
5. Johann Sebastian Bach: Andante from the Sonata BWV 964
6. Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata in f- minor, K. 466
7. Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata in A minor, K. 54
8. Georg Friedrich Händel: Sonata B-flat Major HWV 434 Prelude
9. Georg Friedrich Händel: Sonata B-flat Major HWV 434 Allegro
10. Georg Friedrich Händel: Sonata B-flat Major HWV 434 Aria con Variazioni
11. Jean-Philippe Rameau: Gigue en Rondeau (from Suite in E - minor)
12. Jean-Philippe Rameau: Tambourin (from Suite in E minor) 
13. Baldassare Galuppi: Sonata No. 3 C minor: I Allegro moderato
14. Baldassare Galuppi: Sonata No. 3 C minor II. Allegro
15. Antonio Soler: Sonata No. 21 in C-sharp minor, R. 21
16. Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer: Tambourins, Suite des Matelots  
17. Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer: Le Marche des Scythes
18. - 19. Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude and Fugue E- flat major from Well-tempered Clavier, Book 2, BWV 876

CD 2  New arrangements for piano, all by Martin Stadtfeld
1. J. S. Bach: Prelude No.1 in C-Major from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: (arr. for four hands - with Liliana Akopova, piano) 
2. Jean-Baptiste Lully: Passacaglia from Armide, LWV 71 (version for four hands - with Lilian Akopova)
3. Johann Pachelbel:  Canon (arranged for piano with four hands - with Liliana Akopova)
4. Henry Purcell: "Hush, no more, be silent" (from The Fairy Queen)              
5. Henry Purcell: Chaconne-Dance for Chinese Man and Women (from The Fairy Queen)
6. Antonio Vivaldi: Four Seasons Summer (after Four Seasons, Summer RV 315, III, Presto)
7. Antonio Vivaldi: Four Seasons Winter (after Four Seasons Winter, RV 297, III, Allegro-Lento)
8. Georg Philipp Telemann: Allegro (from Trumpet Concerto in D Major TWV 51: D7)      
9. Gaspar Sanz: Canarios
10. Georg Friedrich Händel: Praise (arr. for piano from "Dank sei Dir, Herr",  Israel in Egypt, HWV 54, fake by Siegfried Ochs) 
11. Johann Kuhnau: Piano Improvisation 1 (after Prelude from Partita)             
12. Johann Kuhnau: Piano Improvisation 2 (after Prelude from Partita V)
13. Johann Sebastian Bach: Piano Mediation 1 (after Minuet in D minor from "Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach") 
14. Johann Sebastian Bach: Piano Meditation 2 (after Minuet in G minor, "Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach")
15. Johann Sebastian Bach: Air Piano Meditation 
16. Johann Sebastian Bach: Fugue Piano Mediation (after Fugue for Organ in G minor, BWV 578)
17. Georg Friedrich Händel: Chaconne Piano Mediation (after Chaconne in G Major, HWV 435)
18. Georg Friedrich Händel: Sarabande from Suite in D minor, HWV 437)
19. Georg Friedrich Händel: Aria Piano Meditation (after Aria "Eternal Source of Light Divine")
20. Arcangelo Corelli: Folia Piano Variation 1 (after A. Corelli: Violin Sonata in D minor "La Folia", Op. 5 No. 12)
21. Arcangelo Corelli: Folia Piano Variation 2
22. Arcangelo Corelli: Prelude Piano Variation (after Corelli, Prelude from Violin Sonata in F Major, Op. 5 No.10)
23. - 26. Melchior Vulpius: Meditation 1 - 4 on  "Ach bleib mit Deiner Gnade"