Jean Baur: Chamber Music Elinor Frey

• Jean Baur (1719 - 1773): Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 1 No. 4:
• 1Baur: Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 1 No. 4: I. Adagio00:44
• 2Baur: Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 1 No. 4: II. Allegro04:29
• 3Baur: Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 1 No. 4: III. Adagio02:38
• 4Baur: Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 1 No. 4: IV. Allegro03:01
• Cello Sonata in B-Flat Major, Op. 2 No. 2 "La Dupleïx":
• 5Baur: Cello Sonata in B-Flat Major, Op. 2 No. 2 "La Dupleïx": I. Allegro04:04
• 6Baur: Cello Sonata in B-Flat Major, Op. 2 No. 2 "La Dupleïx": II. Adagio amoroso03:02
• 7Baur: Cello Sonata in B-Flat Major, Op. 2 No. 2 "La Dupleïx": III. Allegro03:31
• Sonata for Harp with Accompaniment of Keyboard in B-Flat Major, Op. 8 No. 3:
• 8Baur: Sonata for Harp with Accompaniment of Keyboard in B-Flat Major, Op. 8 No. 3: I. Allegro07:04
• 9Baur: Sonata for Harp with Accompaniment of Keyboard in B-Flat Major, Op. 8 No. 3: II. Andante01:54
• 10Baur: Sonata for Harp with Accompaniment of Keyboard in B-Flat Major, Op. 8 No. 3: III. Allegro02:47
• Cello Sonata in D Minor, Op. 1 No. 3:
• 11Baur: Cello Sonata in D Minor, Op. 1 No. 3: Ia. Adagio00:51
• 12Baur: Cello Sonata in D Minor, Op. 1 No. 3: Ib. Allegro04:14
• 13Baur: Cello Sonata in D Minor, Op. 1 No. 3: II. Adagio03:06
• 14Baur: Cello Sonata in D Minor, Op. 1 No. 3: III. Tempo di Gavotta (Rondeau). Allegro03:10
• Sonata for Two Violins No. 1 in F Major:
• 15Baur: Sonata for Two Violins No. 1 in F Major: I. Adagio - Allegro moderato - Adagio - Allegro (Version for Two Violoncellos Piccolo)07:23
• 16Baur: Sonata for Two Violins No. 1 in F Major: II. Adagio (Version for Two Violoncellos Piccolo)02:50
• 17Baur: Sonata for Two Violins No. 1 in F Major: III. Tempo moderato - Variations Nos.1-9 (Version for Two Violoncellos Piccolo)05:55
• Harp Sonata No. 6 in C Major:
• 18Baur: Harp Sonata No. 6 in C Major: I. Allegro04:21
• 19Baur: Harp Sonata No. 6 in C Major: II. Tempo di Minuetto03:32
• 20Baur: Harp Sonata No. 6 in C Major: III. Allegro03:32
• Total Runtime01:12:08

Info for Jean Baur: Chamber Music

By 1750, the cello was an important and fashionable instrument in Paris and throughout France. Cellist-composers contributed dozens of works and the best performers throughout Europe were heard on Parisian stages. However, a newly-developed type of harp, the single-action pedal harp, was about to explode in popularity. Jean Baur, a musician from Bouzonville, France, arrived in Paris in 1745, published two collections of cello sonatas, and then primarily performed on and composed for the harp throughout the 1760s and 70s, including a performance at the Concert Spirituel with his harpist daughter. This project presents the first recording dedicated to this fascinating and practically unheard composer. In it, we hear his more "serious" cello music alongside Galant salon music for entertainment. Jean Baur's chamber music captivates with it's joyful and imaginative passagework and his vividly expressive melodies.

Elinor Frey, cello Accademia de' Dissonanti

Elinor Frey
Fascinated by the cello’s origins and the creative process of new music, Elinor Frey plays both period and modern instruments. Her recent release on the Belgian label Passacaille, Berlin Sonatas with Lorenzo Ghielmi on fortepiano, was nominated for a Juno award for Best Classical CD, Solo & Chamber Music and won the 2015 Québec Opus Prize for Early Music CD of the year. Her first Baroque CD, La voce del violoncello, was praised for its “careful scholarship and brilliant layering of moods and tempos” (Toronto Star) and for the “honest, reflective beauty of her music making” (Strings). Her performance of this program was the winner of the public prize at the 2013 Utrecht Early Music Festival Fringe. In May 2017, she released Fiorè, the world premiere recording of the sonatas of Angelo Maria Fiorè and various unknown Italian arias the, performed alongside Lorenzo Ghielmi and Suzie LeBlanc.

Frey’s debut album, Dialoghi, is titled for the solo piece written for her by Steven Stucky, and her CD of new works for Baroque cello, titled Guided By Voices, will be released on the Analekta label in March 2019. These works are by Scott Godin, Linda Catlin Smith, Ken Ueno, Isaiah Ceccarelli, Maxime McKinley, and Lisa Streich. She also recently performed Lutoslawski’s cello concerto and a new concerto by Colin Labadie with the Laurier Symphony, as well as a concerto by Keiko Devaux with Ensemble Arkea and conductor Dina Gilbert.

Frey’s honours include a US-Italy Fulbright Fellowship where she studied baroque cello with Paolo Beschi, the SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship, American Musicological Society, and Canada Council for the Arts grants facilitating her work on Italian cello music. In recent seasons she has performed with Il Gardellino, Constantinople, Clavecin en concert, Ensemble Caprice, SMAM, Les Idées heureuses, Arion, Les Boréades, and Theatre of Early Music, as well as with her quartet, Pallade Musica, grand prize winners of the 2012 Early Music America Baroque Performance Competition and second prize winners in the 2014 International Van Wassenaer Competition in Utrecht. Frey holds degrees from McGill, Mannes, and Juilliard.

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