Krebs: Complete Harpsichord Music
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Krebs: Complete Harpsichord Music
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The most comprehensive single-volume collection of keyboard music by one of Bach’s most talented pupils, recorded by an Italian early-music specialist with a distinguished catalogue of 17th-century repertoire.
Composer: Johann Ludwig Krebs
Artists: Michele Benuzzi (harpsichor)
The son of a Weimar-based organist, Johann Krebs (1713-1780) entered the Thomasschule in Leipzig under the tutelage of Capellmeister Bach at the age of 12 in 1726. There he remained for the best part of a decade, and a glowing testimonial from Bach commended his talents on the clavier, violin and lute, as well as in composition. Krebs never attained the Leipzig post which his instrumental talents deserved, but he served as an organist in several churches south of Leipzig through the course of a long and distinguished professional life which reached fruition as organist at the court of Prince Friedrich of Gotha-Altenburg from 1755 onwards.
The inveterate traveller and commentator Charles Burney reported that ‘M. Krebs of Altenburg, scholar of Sebastian Bach, has been much admired for his full and masterly manner of playing the organ.’ The style of Krebs’s own music reflects the transitional period in which he lived. The hand of the master lightly guides the cosmopolitan elegance of the three partitas on CD1 of this collection. Krebs compiled a Clavier-Übung (Keyboard Practice) of his own in 1744, from which Michele Benuzzi performs a C major suite and, six lively Italianate sonatas.
A volume of six suites from 1746 shows the influence of the galant style which was coming into fashion at the time, embodied by the output of Bach’s most accomplished son, Carl Philipp Emanuel. Several more suites here are sophisticated examples of Krebs’s mastery in the ‘French and Italian taste’ as well as demonstrating the fluency of his keyboard writing and the craftsmanship of his counterpoint.
Tracklist:
0:00:00 Partita II in B-Flat Major, Krebs-WV 823
0:33:13 Partita IV in A Minor, Krebs-WV 825
1:05:42 Partita VI in E-Flat Major, Krebs-WV 827
1:39:16 Praeambulum
2:06:33 Suite in C Major
2:37:53 Sonatina prima in A Minor
2:43:58 Sonatina seconda in D Major
2:52:11 Sonatina terza in C Minor
3:00:10 Sonatina quarta in B Major
3:06:40 Sonatina quinta in E Major
3:14:35 Sonatina sesta in F Major
3:22:23 Suite I in D Major
3:42:07 Suite II in B Minor
3:55:52 Suite III in E-Flat Major
4:19:15 Suite IV in C Major
4:32:37 Suite V in F Major
4:48:36 Suite VI in C Minor
5:03:35 Suite in A Minor
5:42:08 Ouverture in G Minor
6:19:47 Concerto in G Major, Krebs-WV 821
6:34:20 Sonata in A Minor
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The most comprehensive single-volume collection of keyboard music by one of Bach’s most talented pupils, recorded by an Italian early-music specialist with a distinguished catalogue of 17th-century repertoire.
Composer: Johann Ludwig Krebs
Artists: Michele Benuzzi (harpsichor)
The son of a Weimar-based organist, Johann Krebs (1713-1780) entered the Thomasschule in Leipzig under the tutelage of Capellmeister Bach at the age of 12 in 1726. There he remained for the best part of a decade, and a glowing testimonial from Bach commended his talents on the clavier, violin and lute, as well as in composition. Krebs never attained the Leipzig post which his instrumental talents deserved, but he served as an organist in several churches south of Leipzig through the course of a long and distinguished professional life which reached fruition as organist at the court of Prince Friedrich of Gotha-Altenburg from 1755 onwards.
The inveterate traveller and commentator Charles Burney reported that ‘M. Krebs of Altenburg, scholar of Sebastian Bach, has been much admired for his full and masterly manner of playing the organ.’ The style of Krebs’s own music reflects the transitional period in which he lived. The hand of the master lightly guides the cosmopolitan elegance of the three partitas on CD1 of this collection. Krebs compiled a Clavier-Übung (Keyboard Practice) of his own in 1744, from which Michele Benuzzi performs a C major suite and, six lively Italianate sonatas.
A volume of six suites from 1746 shows the influence of the galant style which was coming into fashion at the time, embodied by the output of Bach’s most accomplished son, Carl Philipp Emanuel. Several more suites here are sophisticated examples of Krebs’s mastery in the ‘French and Italian taste’ as well as demonstrating the fluency of his keyboard writing and the craftsmanship of his counterpoint.
Tracklist:
0:00:00 Partita II in B-Flat Major, Krebs-WV 823
0:33:13 Partita IV in A Minor, Krebs-WV 825
1:05:42 Partita VI in E-Flat Major, Krebs-WV 827
1:39:16 Praeambulum
2:06:33 Suite in C Major
2:37:53 Sonatina prima in A Minor
2:43:58 Sonatina seconda in D Major
2:52:11 Sonatina terza in C Minor
3:00:10 Sonatina quarta in B Major
3:06:40 Sonatina quinta in E Major
3:14:35 Sonatina sesta in F Major
3:22:23 Suite I in D Major
3:42:07 Suite II in B Minor
3:55:52 Suite III in E-Flat Major
4:19:15 Suite IV in C Major
4:32:37 Suite V in F Major
4:48:36 Suite VI in C Minor
5:03:35 Suite in A Minor
5:42:08 Ouverture in G Minor
6:19:47 Concerto in G Major, Krebs-WV 821
6:34:20 Sonata in A Minor
👉 Social media links:
#BrilliantClassics #ClassicalMusic #Krebs #Benuzzi #Harpishor
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