Bach and friends - Bach; Buxtehude; Pachelbel; Böhm;

Jacob, Alard, Różni wykonawcy

AMY 048

Some masterpieces of Bach surrounded by pieces of brilliant predecessors or inspirers: this canvas of recital is known, if not agreed. It does not prevent Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas from signing an excellent first solo album. The scenery is planted by the Prelude manualiter in G minor from Buxtehude. On the background of radiant sound, a highly held speech, punctuated with shifts that, imperceptibly, lead to an irresistible peroration. Or how to give the listener the impression of the original from a known material, without ever abusing the pretext of stylus phantasticus. Handling Camboulas articulates each panel of the longest works of his program without ever losing sight of the architecture. The "serious" touch of the organist - including when he plays the harpsichord - is another decisive choice: far from weighing down the polyphony of the jig concluding Bach's Toccata BVW 915 , this thick flesh gives it power and humanity. at a time. The festival of the senses as well as the spirit continues during the two parts of the program (harpsichord then organ) or almost. • A little behind, the decrease of Lacrimae by Scheidemann and variations on the Aria Sebaldina extracted from the Hexachordum Apollinis Pachelbel turn elegantly round. But the rest of the record - that is to say, the essential - connects significant versions of pieces yet recorded to saturation, the dreamy meditation of the chorale adorned with Boehm on the Vater unser (ideal expressiveness of the hand right) to the inevitable Fantasy and Fugue BWV 542 . Establishing a dark and bitter atmosphere, the meanders of fantasy lead to the fugue, which, on the contrary, plays the card of the supposedly "popular" origin of its subject. This is enough to install Bestion de Camboulas in the abundant panorama of the young guard of the French organists (Alard, Jacob and some others) having pierced the secrets of the Germanic repertoire. • • Xavier Bisaro

CD

Ambronay

14.06.2017

3760135100484