150 years of Clavichord Music!

Music by Pachelbel, Händel, J.S.Bach, CP.E.Bach, J.Chr. Bach, J. Haydn, W.A.Mozart, M. Clementi, L. van Beethoven, F. Schubert, J.B.Cramer and new music in early style by Kostas Papazafeiropoulos”

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Wim, I’ll never get tired of hearing you play. Even pieces I’m not particularly fond of come to life in a new way when you play them

David Rodgers

Absolutely stunning performance – the best I have heard!

Nigel Long

An amazing performance of an amazing piece by an amazing and talented man. Absolutely beautiful Mr. Winters

David Rothschild

Congratulations Wim, and Anja, you have given me and so many others hours of viewing and listening enjoyment ,as well as widening my musical education- Thank you from the wilds of Northern Herefordshire, and long may you continue!

William Huband

On the instrument used in the recording

My instrument is an unfretted clavichord, built by the Belgian organ/clavichord builder Joris Potvlieghe in the Saxon style, very close to what Friederici would do, one of the most important historical clavichord builders. clavichord Joris Potvlieghe

Saxony was one of the great areas of German music, much related to the Bach family. It is difficult to date this instrument, since so few unfretted clavichords of the first half of the 18th c. are preserved (or few were built, I believe it was a costly, elite instrument back then), but it is safe to say that the clavichord I own could be dated as a reflection of what was available around 1745-1765.

Building a good clavichord is an extremely difficult task for an instrument builder. Not only for the ones we know today, but it must have always been the case. J. Adlung, one of the most important sources on instrument building, and acquainted with J.S. Bach, wrote in 1726 that even an exceptional builder cannot guarantee the outcome of an instrument. And that the cheaper instruments are not better than to lit a fire with to bake fish upon… This all adds to the mysterious qualities of that seductive instrument that, once it has the power of its performer, opens a world that sometimes appears to be a new dimension, even a new universe. I hope you feel that with me….!

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CD 1

1-4 Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707) :: Suite in E minor, BuxWV 236

Allemande – Courant- Saraband- Gigue

5 Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706):: Ciaconna in F Minor

6-8 George Friedrich Händel (1685-1759) :: Suite D-Minor HWV 437

Allemande – Courante – Sarabande

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

9-11 Invention n°7-9, BWV 778-780

12-13 Prelude & Fugue in E Major (WTK I), BWV 854

14-19 Partita in B flat Major, BWV 825

Praeambulum – Allemande – Courante- Sarabande – Menuet – Gigue

20 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)

Abschied von meinem Silbermannischen Claviere

21-23 Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782) :: Sonata in C Minor Op.17/2

Allegro – Andante – Prestissimo

CD 2

1-3 Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) :: Sonata in A flat Major, Hob. XVI/46

Allegro Moderato – Adagio – Presto

4 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) :: Variations in F Major, KV 398

5-7 Muzio Clementi (1752-1838) :: Sonata in F sharp Minor, opus 26/2

Piu tosto Allegro con Espressione – Lente e pathetic – Presto

8-9 Joseph Haydn :: Sonata in B flat Major, Hob. XVI/41

Allegro – Allegro di molto

10 W.A. Mozart :: Adagio in B Minor, KV 540

11 W.A. Mozart:: Sechs Deutsche Tänze, KV 509

CD 3

1-3 Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) :: Sonata Pathetique, opus 13 in C Minor

Grave – Allegro Molto e con brio – Andante cantabile – Rondo Allegro

4 Franz Schubert (1797-1828) :: Gretchen Am Spinnrade (klavier solo)

Johann Baptist Cramer (1771-1851):: Etudes played from Beethoven’s copy

5 Etude n°16 in F Minor

6 Etude n°18 in D Minor

7 Etude n°21 in G Major

8 Etude n°24 in D Minor

9-10 Carl Czerny (1791-1857) :: Prelude & Fugue in G Major

11 Kostas Papazafeiropoulos (1983 – ) :: Rondo in A Minor (2015)

Dedicated to Wim Winters

12-15 Kostas Papazafeiropoulos :: Sonate in C Minor, opus 113 (2015)

Allegro – Adagio – Menuet/Trio – Rondo Allegro

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