Bach: Trio Sonatas For Flute & Piano – Andrea Mogavero

Andrea Mogavero and Giuseppe Ferro pose with this record a problem that sinks into the contemporary perception of music, namely the performance of works from the past, in this case Bach, with modern instruments. Not only that, they rage in this problem by taking compositions that were not even thought of for those instruments, the Trio Sonatas, in fact, originally composed for the organ. This problem poses him immediately in a surprising way, that is, in any case re-proposing a historical and repertoire version like the one edited by Robert Veyron-Lacroix and brought to success by Jean-Pierre Rampal. The re-proposal is therefore placed in the wake of the rediscovery not so much of the music of the past, but of the revisions that have formed the backbone of that rediscovery and has largely formed the basis of today’s taste, as in the case of similar operations in the Sonatas. for piano Mozart-Grieg, or those for violin Bach-Schumann, now widely rediscovered and accepted, or the Capricci Paganini-Auer or Kreisler’s revisions. This revival, therefore, with both a revolutionary and reactionary flavor, points directly to the pleasure of listening and abandoning oneself to music that, even if reinterpreted, does not lose an ounce of its incomparable original quality. A quality that both interpreters manage not only to restore by carefully avoiding the operation-nostalgia, but also by establishing a fundamental precedent for the rediscovery of the revisions of the mid-1900s made by the great interpreters of the time. A record that can be considered fundamental for Bach fans as well as for flute fans as well as for those who want to deepen today on a historical level what preceded us and which obviously could easily (re) find a place also in the future of the executive world.