Janitsch: Church Sonatas

Elegant and beguiling chamber music from the court of Frederick the Great in new, historically informed recordings.

Composer: Johann Gottlieb Janitsch
Artists: Berlin Friday Academy

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Born in what is now the Polish city of Ðwidniz, Janitsch entered the service of the future King Frederick in 1736 and became a bassist in the king’s opera orchestra. He composed wedding music for Princess Wilhelmine, one of the king’s sisters – and the keyboard instrument heard on this recording is a historic organ that once belonged to another of his sisters, Princess Anna Amalie. Today we associate organs with church music, but small instruments were often used for domestic music making in well-appointed 18th-century households, and Janitsch specified the use of organ for the basso continuo part in his “church” sonatas, as in the present recording.

These five sonate da chiesa were not necessarily designed for performance in church, but the designation distinguishes them from ‘sonate da camera’, and indicates a formal structure of a slow introductory movement prefacing a lively fugue, followed by a solemn slow movement and contrasting finale. Janitsch took the examples by Corelli as a model, but gave them the kind of north-German twist in the new stile galante which is shared with the music of better known contemporaries at Frederick’s court such as Quantz and CPE Bach.

Tracklist:
Sonata da chiesa in E Minor:
00:00:00 I. Affetuoso
00:02:49 II. Alla breve
00:05:52 III. Grave
00:09:13 IV. Vivace
Sonata da chiesa in B-Flat Major:
00:13:17 I. Poco largo e cantabile
00:16:45 II. Alla breve
00:19:53 III. Lento
00:23:07 IV. Vivace

Sonata da chiesa in G Minor:
00:28:55 I. Largo
00:32:19 II. Allegro assai
00:34:53 III. Allegro

Sonata da chiesa in B-Flat Minor:
00:38:25 I. Largo
00:42:00 II. Alla breve
00:44:51 III. Lento e cantabile
00:48:03 IV. Vivace

Sonata da chiesa in A Major:
00:52:11 I. Adagio
00:55:01 II. Allegro
00:57:48 III. Andante
01:00:05 IV. Allegretto

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