Ingrid Matthews and Byron Schenkman have long been regarded as well-established stars of the American early music scene. Their collaboration began in the 1980s, when the two were graduate students at Indiana University's Early Music Institute under Stanley Ritchie and Elisabeth Wright. Since that time, Matthews and Schenkman have performed and recorded together extensively, as a duo, with the chamber ensemble La Luna, and as directors of the Seattle Baroque Orchestra, which they founded in 1994. Matthews won first prize in the Erwin Bodky International Competition for Early Music in 1989, and Schenkman was awarded the Bodky Prize in 1999. In addition to their extensive joint discography, Schenkman has produced dozens of solo harpsichord CDs, to international critical acclaim, and Matthews has recorded the complete Sonatas and Partitas for Unaccompanied Violin of Johann Sebastian Bach, of which the American Record Guide writes: "this superb recording...is my top recommendation for this music, on either period or modern instruments."

Byron Schenkman is now working as a modern pianist based in New York. This album is the last project the two undertook together before Byron's musical metamorphosis was complete, and as such stands as a significant memento of a wonderful and rare musical collaboration.

1. Sonata No 2 BWV 1015 - 1 Dolce (Johann Sebastian Bach)
2. Sonata No 2 BWV 1015 - 2 Allegro (Johann Sebastian Bach)
3. Sonata No 2 BWV 1015 - 3 Andante un poco (JS Bach)
4. Sonata No 2 BWV 1015 - 4 Presto (Johann Sebastian Bach)
5. Sonata No 3 BWV 1016 - 1 Adagio (Johann Sebastian Bach)
6. Sonata No 3 BWV 1016 - 2 Allegro (Johann Sebastian Bach)
7. Sonata No 3 BWV 1016 - 3 Adagio ma non tanto (JS Bach)
8. Sonata No 3 BWV 1016 - 4 Allegro (Johann Sebastian Bach)
9. Sonata No 1 BWV 1014 - 1 Adagio (Johann Sebastian Bach)
10. Sonata No 1 BWV 1014 - 2 Allegro (Johann Sebastian Bach)
11. Sonata No 1 BWV 1014 - 3 Andante (Johann Sebastian Bach)
12. Sonata No 1 BWV 1014 - 4 Allegro (Johann Sebastian Bach)

Listen to: the entire album.

Release date: 9/8/2008
Ingrid Matthews and Byron Schenkman lives in Washington USA

Tagged as: Classical, Chamber Music, Baroque, Instrumental, Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach, Harpsichord, Violin

1. Boismortier (Harpsichord music) by Kathleen McIntosh: delicious harpsichord rarities
2. Kathleen McIntosh plays Bach by Kathleen McIntosh: delicious harpsichord rarities
3. JS Bach Works For Harpsichord by Janine Johnson: Harpsichord and fortepiano classics
4. Johann Mattheson - CD1 - The Twelve Suites of 1714 by Colin Booth: solo harpsichord music
5. Musica da Camera by Streicher Trio: classical chamber music on period instruments
6. Johann Mattheson - CD2 - The Twelve Suites of 1714 by Colin Booth: solo harpsichord music
7. Bach Goldberg Variations by Janine Johnson: Harpsichord and fortepiano classics
8. Triemer Six Cello Sonatas by Ensemble Mirable: rare and extraordinary music of the Baroque
9. CD2-Bach Cello Suites by Vito Paternoster: cellist extraordinaire
10. Nun Komm by The Bach Players: baroque instrumental and vocal gems
11. Sylvius Leopold Weiss Suites no 36 et 40 Lobkowitz by Mauricio Buraglia: a marvelous classical spiral of lute sounds
12. Beside Themselves by Phebe Craig and Katherine Westine: harpsichord duets
13. Magnificent Obsession vol 2 - Beethoven Sonatas by Sebastian Forster: exquisitely performed Beethoven piano sonatas
14. The Fantastics by Music of the Spheres: small Baroque chamber ensemble
15. German music for Viols and Harpsichord by Les Filles de Sainte Colombe: viol & harpsichord music
16. JS Bach French Suites by Katherine Roberts Perl: Bach on the harpsichord - poetic and expressive
17. CD1-Bach Cello Suites by Vito Paternoster: cellist extraordinaire
18. Fugitive Visions - Piano Masterworks by Chopin and Liszt by Ivan Ilic: dazzling classical pianist
19. Portrait of an English Harpsichord by Steven Devine: exquisite and exuberant harpsichord.

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