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Ensemble Castor:
Erich Traxler - Harpsichord
Petra Samhaber-Eckhardt - Violin
Philipp Comploi - Violoncello

Editor's Info
The renowned Austrian Ensemble Castor presents the first part of the world premiere recording of Johannes Schenck’s complete Op.7
This is the only work written by Schenck for violin and basso continuo.
Schenck’s exciting music is a subtle combination of suites, sonatas, and pieces in the so-called “Stylus phantasicus”.
The result is an exquisite blend of elements of the French, Italian, and Dutch style.
The pieces show an impressive variety of forms and demand of violin technique and offer a wide range of moods from vivid dances to expressive slow movements.
Castor Ensemble is a reknown ensemble that in the past recorded for Deutsche Harmonia Mundi and Pan Classics

For some time now, Johannes Schenck has enjoyed a return to popularity as a composer of ingenious and technically demanding music for viola da gamba, but his compositional output in other fields has largely been forgotten. His instrumental music, is nowadays generally recognised, was composed in the tradition of the composer-virtuoso, almost exclusively for the viola da gamba.
The only exception is the undated Opus 7, from the publishing house of Estienne Roger, entitled Suonate a Violino e Violone o Cimbalo, which first appeared in 1699. The two individual part-books of the publication, one for the solo violin, the other for the bass accompaniment, contain a total of 18 numbered pieces. The use of French titles for the dance forms and the title “Prelude in stile
francese” seem at first to point to a strong French influence on Schenck’s Op. 7, as does the fact that the dance movements are consistently in the ordering Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, Gigue, as was normal practice for a suite in France at the time.
But in fact Schenck cleverly mixes suite and sonata forms with formally free, almost improvisatory movements or entire
pieces in the so-called Stylus phantas.......
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