Sturm und Drang on the baroque lute: Gabriele Janneck presents a new album with sonatas by Bernhard Joachim Hagen.
For Gabriele Janneck, the great era of the Baroque lute never ended with the death of Bach's contemporary Sylvius Leopold Weiss; rather, she particularly values the late period of the instrument, which disappeared around 1800. Accordingly, her new album features four sonatas by Bernhard Joachim Hagen (1720 to 1787), following her previous Weiss recording.
Although Hagen originally came to the Bayreuth court as a violinist to Margravine Wilhelmine, he is remembered for his lute music. He uses the rich sound of the late Baroque lute, with its vast range, to create a musical language full of Sturm und Drang (Sturm und Drang). Gabriele's album title, "Franconian Rocks," therefore alludes both to the rocks of Hagen's adopted Franconian homeland and to the character of many of his works.
With the selected sonatas in C minor, E-flat major, B-flat major, and F minor, Gabriele aims to capture as much of the expressive diversity in Hagen's music as possible. She produced the album together with Martin Janneck. It will be released on the Osnabrück-based record label Timezone. The project was supported by a grant from the "Neustart Kultur" program, initiated by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and distributed through the German Music Council.
01-03 Sonata in C Minor
04-06 Sonata in Eb Major
07-09 Sonata in Bb Major
10-12 Sonata in F Minor
