Benda: Sonatas, Sonatinas & Songs: Music from Eighteenth-Century Prague

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Blandness sometimes threatens, even more so in the featherweight sonatinas, though even at his most compliant Benda can trip you up with a disorientating pause, or surprise harmonic twist. — Gramophone Magazine, September 2015

Release Date: 15th Jun 2015
Catalogue No: SU41842
Label: Supraphon
Series: Music From 18th Century Prague
Length: 75 minutes

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Benda, G: Sonata for Harpsichord in F Major

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Edita Keglerová

I. Allegro assai moderato - Allegro

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II. Andantino un poco larghetto

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III. Allegro

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Benda, G: Mit Lauretten, seiner Freude

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Ivana Bilej Brouková, Edita Keglerová

Benda, G: Sonatina in B-Flat Major: Allegro

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Benda, G: Du, kleine, Blondine bezauberst ja schon

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Benda, G: Sonatina in F Major: Allegro moderato

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Benda, G: Mir Armen, den des Fiebers Kraft

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Benda, G: Sonatina in D Major: Presto

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Benda, G: Hupft, ihr wollenreichen Herden

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Ivana Bilej Brouková, Edita Keglerová

Benda, G: Sonata for Violin and Harpsichord in G Major

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Helena Zemanová, Edita Keglerová

I. Mezzo allegro

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II. Andantino

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III. Allegro

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Benda, G: Mein Geliebter hat versprochen

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Ivana Bilej Brouková, Edita Keglerová

Benda, G: Sonatina in G Minor

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Edita Keglerová

Benda, G: Romanze: Ein Mädchen, das auf Ehre hielt

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Benda, G: Sonata in C Minor

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I. Allegro non troppo

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II. Un poco largo

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III. Allegro

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Benda, G: Ich liebte nur Ismenen

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Benda, G: Sonatina in C Major: Allegretto

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Benda, G: Heraklit, gleich stumpfen Greisen

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Ivana Bilej Brouková, Edita Keglerová

Benda, G: Sonata in F Major

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I. Allegro ma non troppo

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II. Andante con moto

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III. Allegro

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Jiří Antonín Benda spent his prime years at King Friedrich II’s court orchestra in Berlin and serving as court Kapellmeister in Gotha, yet his works were an integral part of 18th century Prague’s musical landscape. The Czech capital frequently hosted performances of his singspiels, while prints of his compositions were in high demand too. Benda was best known for his melodramas and singspiels, whose novel and striking forcibility even enthralled the young Mozart (“You know that Benda has always been my favourite Lutheran Kapellmeister,” wrote Wolfgang to this father). The greatest impact on Benda’s keyboard music was made by his Berlin colleague Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. The first of the six volumes of Benda’s “Sammlung” was published in 1780. Besides sonatas and sonatinas for “piano” (meaning any keyboard instrument, most frequently the harpsichord), the collection contained arias from church pieces, sonatas for several instruments, and songs. It was an extraordinary success and when it comes to the number of subscribers, it even outstripped C. P. E. Bach’s similarly conceived collection of sonatas, which started to be published a year earlier.

Benda’s music is enchanting in its simplicity, impressive expression, gallantry and wit. The artists who made this recording have immersed themselves in Benda’s musical universe and, bringing to bear their ample performing experience, have succeeded in relaying its irresistible charm.

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September 2015

Blandness sometimes threatens, even more so in the featherweight sonatinas, though even at his most compliant Benda can trip you up with a disorientating pause, or surprise harmonic twist.

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