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“At my age I no longer need to care about what the critics think, I can just do what's right.”
--Rosalinde Haas
J.S. Bach Musikalische Opfer• Rosalinde Haas
Rosalinde Haas offers an almost transparent rendering of J.S. Bach's Musikalisches Opfer. The Ricercare in 3 and 6 voices are played on her Sperrhake Pedal Harpsichord, whereas the "Canon perpetuus super thema regium" and the "Fuga epidiapente" are played on her Klais organ at home.
The disc also features a recording of Bach's "Chromatische Fantasie und Fuge" interpreted on the pedal harpsichord.
Rosalinde Haas' interpretation of the coda of Bach's Chromatische Fantasie pays reference to psalm 137: think of "By the rivers of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion. We hung our harps upon the willow trees... when listening to the last minute of the Fantasia...
- J.S. Bach: Musikalisches Opfer, Ricercare a 3 voci, BWV 1079/1 6:13
- J.S. Bach: Musikalisches Opfer, Canon perpetuus super thema regium (vox humana), BWV 1079/2
- J.S. Bach: Musikalisches Opfer, Canon perpetuus super thema regium (8' flute), BWV 1079
- J.S. Bach: Musikalisches Opfer, Canon perpetuus super thema regium (4' flute), BWV 1079
- J.S. Bach: Musikalisches Opfer, Fuga canonica in epidiapente, BWV 1079/4 2:33
- J.S. Bach: Musikalisches Opfer, Ricercare a 3 voci, BWV 1079/5 7:57
- J.S. Bach: "An Wasserfluessen Babylon" (vox humana), BWV 653b
- J.S. Bach: "An Wasserfluessen Babylons" (4' flute), BWV 653b .
- J.S. Bach: "Nun freut Euch, liebe Christen g'mein", BWV 734
- J.S. Bach: "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme", BWV 645
- J.S. Bach: Chromatische Fantasie und Fuge, BWV 903, Fantasie
- J.S. Bach: Chromatische Fantasie und Fuge, BWV 903, Fugue