Johann-Jacob FROBERGER
Oeuvres d'Orgue
Bach held Froberger in high regard. He admired especially the originality of his thematic invention. A tireless traveller, organist for the Viennese court at the age of 21 years old, he went to study with Frescobaldi and Carissimi in Rome, became friend with Weckmann in Dresden, stays in Brussels, in Paris and London. He ends his life with the Duchess Sybil of Wurtemberg in Héricourt Castle, near Montbéliard, in 1667.
Influenced by his discoveries, his encounters, for some of them decisive, Froberger, a wandering traveller, delivers us an art of virtuosity and contrast. Rigour and freedom in fantasia mark out his work.
« In this vast rhetoric, in the middle of these mutiple drives, he enables ears as well as the spirit to discover the real values of a whimsical world but rigourous in his intensions, about which he and those who followed him learnt how to make the European way of thinking in the XVIIIth century. »
Claude Noisette de Crauzat
« Bernard Coudurier livens up with a delightful imagination these « Italianate » pieces.... This record is from the beginning to the end a pleasure of invention and virtuosity. »
Guide de la Musique ancienne et baroque Ed. Robert Laffont/ Guide of Ancient and baroque music
« Froberger's art which is typically baroque seems to take its origin in the possibilities of the human voice, we know that this period was quite agitated in Italy, is recreated by Bernard Coudurier with the appropriate virtuosity. With a « plus » however: an enhancement of soul and mystery... »
Télérama
Capriccio 5
Johann Jakob FROBERGER
Œuvres d’Orgue
Orgue du Temple Saint-Martin de Montbéliard
BNL 112784 DDD
Sortie du nouveau CD : Florilegium, Danses baroques, Muffat - Fischer - Kusser, 4 mains
Bernard COUDURIER