Bach Flute Works / Frans Brüggen, Gustav Leonhardt, and Anner Bylsma

A CD of Bach’s Flute Sonatas recorded by Frans Brüggen with Gustav Leonhardt and Anner Bylsma in 1975 have come today. I had the analog recordings, but had forgotten to convert them for my PC (or rather, I remembered that I had been satisfied with the performance by Konrad Hünteler, which was released shortly after the CD, because it seemed to me to be superior). I was shallow. The Brüggen’s traverso which I have not heard in a long time, and it was very tasteful. I was reminded once again that Brüggen’s performance is in a realm that no one else can imitate. By the way the first movement of the A major obbligato harpsichord and flute sonata, which I had assumed was a Leonhardt completion (restoration), turned out to be the job of Dutch musicologist Gerrit Hendrik de Marez Oyens, so I would note it here.　Also, I think Leonhardt’s arrangement of the Allemande in the unaccompanied flute partita is wonderful.I recall a recent failed attempt to do this same thing by Jean Rondeau. #baroque #bach #Brüggen #片山俊幸