Philipp Heinrich Erlebach: Sonata Terza • 4K

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Philipp Heinrich Erlebach (1657–1714): Sonata Terza from VI Sonate à Violino e Viola da Gamba col suo Basso continuo (1694)
Adagio—Allegro—Lento—Allemande—Courante—Sarabande—Ciaconne—Final

0:00 Opening
0:18 Adagio—Allegro—Lento
3:04 Allemande
5:55 Courante
7:57 Sarabande
9:40 Ciaconne
13:51 Final
15:56 Credits

Elizabeth Blumenstock, violin • YuEun Gemma Kim, violin • Cynthia Keiko Black, violin • Steven Lehning, violone • Corey Jamason, organ

Eddie Frank, video • Chris Landen, audio
American Bach Soloists • Jeffrey Thomas, Artistic Director

Filmed in March 2021 in the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts (Davis, California).
How we made the video: https://americanbach.org/Videos-Backs...

In Thuringia — the area of Bach's lineage — we enter a musical culture in which the Italian developments in instrumental writing found an enthusiastic audience. In some German courts, the new Italianate virtuosity mingled with other national influences to produce interesting hybrid results. One of the composers who were inspired by the possibilities of these various cultures was Philipp Heinrich Erlebach. He spent most of his career as Kapellmeister to the small court of Rudolstadt, which under his direction became a center of musical culture. Alas, a fire in the court library destroyed most of his work after his death. Of his many instrumental works — at least 120 are recorded — only six trio sonatas, six orchestral suites, and a march survive. The works we have are wonderfully vivid. His trio sonatas use the characteristically Northern German instrumentation of violin, viola da gamba, and continuo, and create a wonderful interplay of Italianate operatic styles, French dance movements, and German Stylus Phantasticus extravagance.

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