Froberger Suite & Toccatas Alina Rotaru

• Tombeau fait a Paris sur la mort de Monsieur Blancheroche, FbWV 632
• 1 Tombeau Blancheroche 06:42
• Partita No. 19 in C minor, FbWV 619
• 2 I. Allemande 03:26
• 3 Gigue 01:46
• 4 Courante 01:06
• 5 Sarabande 02:38
• Libro di toccate, fantasie, canzone, allemande, courante, sarabande, gigue et altre partite, Book 2: Toccata No. 2 in D minor, FbWV 102
• 6 Toccata II 03:14
• Partita No. 2 in D minor, FbWV 602
• 7 Allemande 03:03
• 8 Gigue 01:11
• 9 Courante 01:15
• 10 Sarabande 02:22
• Libro di toccate, ricercari, capricci, allemande, gigue, courante, sarabande, Book 4
• 11 Lamento 05:22
• 12 Gigue 01:08
• 13 Courante 01:10
• 14 Sarabande 02:05
• Partita in D minor, FbWV 613
• 15 Allemande 02:35
• 16 Gigue 01:42
• 17 Courante 01:17
• 18 Sarabande 02:22
• 19 Ricercar VII 03:09
• 20 Toccata XIX 03:14
• 21 Allemande 04:51
• 22 Gigue 01:13
• 23 Courante 01:03
• 24 Sarabande 01:59
• 25 Toccata XI 03:45
• Total Runtime 01:03:38

Info for Froberger Suite & Toccatas

The harpsichordist Alina Rotaru plays selected works by Johann Jacob Froberger, one of the most enigmatic composers of 17th C. harpsichord music. A subject of countless speculations, his programmatic and personal music is a creation of an exquisite and sensitive mind, masterfully crafted with enigmatic and mystical elements, and points to Frobergers personal connections to thinkers and alchemists of his time. Alina Rotaru shows with her interpretation a spirited and insightful image of the brilliant and profound thinker, virtuoso and traveler Froberger was. This recording was made on the original Ruckers harpsichord dated 1623/1745) at Musée d’art et d’histoire de Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

“One of our most gifted harpsichordists of the younger generation. Alina Rotaru has passion, rhythmic precision and subtlety as well as that rarest quality among harpsichordists: the ability to make a beautiful, singing sound, which provides a backdrop against which the full range of her articulation and fine sense of phrasing is heard in full measure. For playing like hers you will need to go back to about 1968 and Gustav Leonhardt.” (P. Watchorn 2011)

Alina Rotaru, Cembalo

Alina Rotaru - Harpsichord
Alina Rotaru studied piano and choral conducting at the music conservatory in her hometown Bucharest. There she came into contact with Early Music and founded her first ensemble.

After moving to Germany in 1999, she studied harpsichord with Siegbert Rampe and Wolfgang Kostujak in Duisburg, Carsten Lohff and Detlef Bratschke in Bremen and Bob van Asperen in Amsterdam. She is the winner of the 6th Biagio Marini Early Music Competition.

The debut CD of her ensemble LUXURIANS with works by G. Ph. Telemann was released in 2009. Her debut solo CD with harpsichord works by J. P. Sweelinck was released in October 2010. The newest CD featuring Alina Rotaru, with Ensemble La Ninfea and soprano Ulrike Hofbauer and music by G.B. and A.M. Bononcini was released in October 2011 at Thorofon She plays concerts and gives master classes inside and outside Europe.

Alina Rotaru is currently working at the University of the Arts in Bremen as a harpsichord instructor.

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