Martin Stadtfeld – Baroque Colours (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Martin Stadtfeld’s new double album “Baroque Colours” presents a colorful sound panorama of the Baroque – with original works from Bach to Rameau as well as his own arrangements of well-known Baroque hits and unknown musical gems.

On “Baroque Colours,” Stadtfeld plays a personal selection of short original works by Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, Domenico Scarlatti and the great French Baroque composers François Couperin and Jean-Philippe Rameau on a modern grand piano. But Stadtfeld has also selected pieces by lesser-known composers for the first part of the album, such as Joachim Kuhnau, Baldassare Galuppi, Antonio Soler and Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer.

For the second part of “Baroque Colours” Stadtfeld has chosen works that are particularly close to his heart and arranged them anew for piano. Among them are piano versions of famous pieces such as the “Summer” and the “Winter” from Antonio Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” or Johann Pachelbel’s Canon, of which he created a version for piano four hands and recorded it with the pianist Lilian Akopova. The latter is also his partner in the versions, also for four hands, of the first prelude from Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier and the “Passacaglia” from Lully’s opera “Armida”.

In addition, Stadtfeld improvises on “Baroque Colours” on musical themes by Bach (including the famous Air) and by Handel, but also on lesser-known works – by Joachim Kuhnau or Melchior Vulpius (Four Improvisations on “Ach bleib mit Deiner Gnade”) as well as on Corelli’s violin sonata “La Follia”.

Tracklist:

1-1. Martin Stadtfeld – Neue Clavier-Übung I, Partie V in G Major: Prelude (01:43)
1-2. Martin Stadtfeld – Neue Clavier-Übung I, Partie V in G Major: Gigue (01:04)
1-3. Martin Stadtfeld – L’art de toucher le clavecin: Prelude No. 7 in B-Flat Major (01:28)
1-4. Martin Stadtfeld – Pièces de clavecin, Sixième ordre: No.5 in B-Flat Major, “Les Baricades Misterieuses” (02:35)
1-5. Martin Stadtfeld – Sonata in D Minor, BWV 964: III. Andante (02:37)
1-6. Martin Stadtfeld – Sonata in F Minor, K.466 (03:16)
1-7. Martin Stadtfeld – Sonata in A Minor, K.54 (01:57)
1-8. Martin Stadtfeld – I. Prelude (01:26)
1-9. Martin Stadtfeld – II. Allegro (Sonata) (01:23)
1-10. Martin Stadtfeld – III. Aria con Variazioni (02:34)
1-11. Martin Stadtfeld – Suite in E Minor, RCT 2: IV. Gigue en rondeau II (01:40)
1-12. Martin Stadtfeld – Suite in E Minor, RCT 2: VIII. Tambourin (01:11)
1-13. Martin Stadtfeld – I. Allegro moderato (02:10)
1-14. Martin Stadtfeld – II. Allegro (01:41)
1-15. Martin Stadtfeld – Sonata No. 21 in C-Sharp Minor, R.21 (02:25)
1-16. Martin Stadtfeld – Pièces de clavecin: IV. Tambourins, Suite des Matelots (01:26)
1-17. Martin Stadtfeld – Pièces de clavecin: XIV. Le Marche des Scythes (05:21)
1-18. Martin Stadtfeld – I. Praeludium (03:01)
1-19. Martin Stadtfeld – II. Fuga (03:20)
2-1. Martin Stadtfeld – The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Prelude No. 1 in C Major, BWV 846 (Arr. for Piano four hands by Martin Stadtfeld) (01:44)
2-2. Martin Stadtfeld – Armide, LWV 71, Act V: Passacaglia (Arr. for Piano four hands by Martin Stadtfeld) (03:45)
2-3. Martin Stadtfeld – Canon, P.37 (Arr. for Piano four hands by Martin Stadtfeld) (03:44)
2-4. Martin Stadtfeld – The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act II: Hush, no more, be silent (Arr. for Piano by Martin Stadtfeld) (02:23)
2-5. Martin Stadtfeld – The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act V: Chaconne (Arr. for Piano by Martin Stadtfeld) (02:28)
2-6. Martin Stadtfeld – Four Seasons Summer Variation (After Violin Concerto in G Minor, Op. 8, No. 2, RV 315: III. Presto) (02:44)
2-7. Martin Stadtfeld – Four Seasons Winter Variation (After Violin Concerto in F Minor, Op. 8, No. 4, RV 297, III. Allegro-Lento) (01:43)
2-8. Martin Stadtfeld – Trumpet Concerto in D Major, TWV 51:D7: IV. Allegro (Arr. for Piano by Martin Stadtfeld) (01:40)
2-9. Martin Stadtfeld – Canarios (Arr. for Piano by Martin Stadtfeld) (01:30)
2-10. Martin Stadtfeld – Praise (After Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Dank sei Dir, Herr) (02:13)
2-11. Martin Stadtfeld – Piano Improvisation 1 (After Prelude from Neue Clavier-Übung I, Partie V) (01:06)
2-12. Martin Stadtfeld – Piano Improvisation 2 (After Prelude from Neue Clavier-Übung I, Partie V) (01:16)
2-13. Martin Stadtfeld – Minuet Piano Meditation 1 (After Minuet in D Minor, BWV Anh.132 from Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach) (01:03)
2-14. Martin Stadtfeld – Minuet Piano Meditation 2 (After Minuet in D Minor, BWV Anh.132 from Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach) (01:23)
2-15. Martin Stadtfeld – Air Piano Meditation (After Air from Orchestral Suite No. 3, BWV 1068) (01:53)
2-16. Martin Stadtfeld – Fugue Piano Meditation (After Fugue for Organ in G Minor, BWV 578) (01:47)
2-17. Martin Stadtfeld – Chaconne Piano Meditation (After Chaconne in G Major, HWV 435) (01:44)
2-18. Martin Stadtfeld – Sarabande Piano Meditation (After Sarabande from Suite in D Minor, HWV 437) (01:11)
2-19. Martin Stadtfeld – Aria Piano Meditation (After “Eternal Source of Light Divine” from Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne, HWV 74) (01:53)
2-20. Martin Stadtfeld – Folia Piano Variation 1 (After Violin Sonata in D Minor, Op. 5, No. 12) (00:47)
2-21. Martin Stadtfeld – Folia Piano Variation 2 (After Violin Sonata in D Minor, Op. 5, No. 12) (00:58)
2-22. Martin Stadtfeld – Prelude Piano Variation (After Prelude from Violin Sonata in F Major, Op. 5, No. 10) (01:51)
2-23. Martin Stadtfeld – Piano Improvisation 1 (After “Ach bleib mit deiner Gnade”) (02:21)
2-24. Martin Stadtfeld – Piano Improvisation 2 (After “Ach bleib mit deiner Gnade”) (02:20)
2-25. Martin Stadtfeld – Piano Improvisation 3 (After “Ach bleib mit deiner Gnade”) (00:58)
2-26. Martin Stadtfeld – Piano Improvisation 4 (After “Ach bleib mit deiner Gnade”) (02:52)