Sonata K. 292 (Allegro) Uploaded by: Pietro Composer: Scarlatti, Domenico Organ: Ruckers Cembalo by František Vyhnálek Software: Hauptwerk V Views: 38
Sonata K. 474 (Andante e cantabile) Uploaded by: Pietro Composer: Scarlatti, Domenico Organ: Ruckers Cembalo by František Vyhnálek Software: Hauptwerk VII Views: 36
Ordre V, 6: La tendre Fanchon Uploaded by: Pietro Composer: Couperin, François Organ: Ruckers Cembalo by František Vyhnálek Software: Hauptwerk IV Views: 40
Passacaglia & Fugue No. 5 Uploaded by: KatoYuitiro Composer: * My Own Composition Organ: Ruckers Cembalo by František Vyhnálek Software: Hauptwerk IV Views: 14
Sonata K. 135 (Allegro) Uploaded by: Pietro Composer: Scarlatti, Domenico Organ: Ruckers Cembalo by František Vyhnálek Software: Hauptwerk IV Views: 63
Hexachordum Apollinis is a collection of keyboard music by Johann Pachelbel, published in 1699. It comprises six arias with variations, on original themes, and is generally regarded as one of the pinnacles of Pachelbel's oeuvre.
Pachelbel wrote a short preface in which he dedicated the collection to Dieterich Buxtehude and Ferdinand Tobias Richter and expresses a hope that his eldest son Wilhelm Hieronymus might study with one of them (it is unknown whether this hope was realized). Pachelbel also confesses that "something weightier and more unusual" than this work should have been written for the occasion; apparently feeling that this is not his best work.
Pachelbel alludes to the "friendly nature" of Buxtehude and Richter, which might indicate that he knew one of them or both, perhaps through correspondence.
Pachelbel's themes are simple song-like pieces in two sections: four bars in the first section and four or eight in the second. Both sections are repeated.
The variations conform to the same concept: most are in common time (except for Aria Sebaldina, in which all variations are in triple time, like the theme) and explore various constant harmony and melodic outline models. Although the frontispiece indicates that the work is intended for either organ or harpsichord, much of the music is better suited for the latter,
So this recording was done on a beautiful copy of a two-manual Ruckers harpsichord by Frantisek Vyhnalek.
The recording of this fine instrument has been done very direct, as it should be done.
I placed it in a (virutal) Kammermusik room with convolution reverb, as imho a harpsichord needs some space to "breathe".