Bach: Complete Keyboard Edition vol. 1

Alard, Benjamin

HMM 902450.52

Bach’s youth was a vast field of observation. From the years of apprenticeship in Ohrdruf, where his precocious artistic sensibility was dazzlingly demonstrated, to his first major post as organist at Arnstadt, Bach constantly enriched his musical culture, underpinned by a strong family tradition and driven by iconic respect for the old masters, crucial affinities and unfailing curiosity. As the prelude to a complete recording of a new kind, the eloquence and vigilant intelligence of the admirable Benjamin Alard’s playing are the ideal medium to reveal the technical mastery of Bach’s early keyboard works and convey the essence of this young composer’s musical discourse at a time when he was already measuring himself against the yardstick of predecessors and contemporaries alike.

Works: • Bach, J C'ph: Prelude & Fugue in E flat
• Bach, J M I: Nun Komm, der heiden Heiland
• Bach, J S: Aria Variata in A minor, BWV989 ‘alla Maniera Italiana'
• Bach, J S: Capriccio in E major, BWV993
• Bach, J S: Capriccio sopra la lontananza del suo fratello dilettissimo, BWV992
• Bach, J S: Chorale Partita BWV770 'Ach, was soll ich Sunder machen?'
• Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV724 'Gott durch deine Güte' or 'Gottes Sohn ist kommen'
• Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV741 'Ach Gott vom Himmel sieh darein'
• Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV957 'Machs mit mir, Gott, nach deiner Güt'
• Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV1091 'Das alte Jahr vergangen ist'
• Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV1092 'Herr Gott, nun schleuss den Himmel auf'
• Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV1094 'O Jesu, wie ist dein Gestalt'
• Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV1097 'Ehre sei dir, Christe, der du leidest Not'
• Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV1099 'Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir'
• Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV1105 'Jesu, meine Freude'
• Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV1111 'Nun lasst uns den Leib begraben'
• Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV1112 'Christus, der ist mein Leben'
• Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV1113 'Ich hab mein Sach Gott heimgestellt'
• Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV1114 'Herr Jesu Christ, du höchstes Gut'
• Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV1115 'Herzlich lieb hab ich dich, o Herr'
• Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV1116 'Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan'
• Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV1117 'Alle Menschen müssen sterben'
• Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV1118 'Werde munter, mein Gemüte'
• Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV1119 'Wie nach einer Wasserquelle'
• Bach, J S: Fantasia (Concerto) in G major, BWV571
• Bach, J S: Fantasia con imitatione in B minor BWV563
• Bach, J S: Fantasia in C major, BWV570
• Bach, J S: Fantasia in C minor, BWV1121
• Bach, J S: Fuga sopra 'Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her', BWV700
• Bach, J S: Fugue in A major on a theme by Albinoni, BWV950
• Bach, J S: Fugue in A major, BWV949
• Bach, J S: Fugue in A minor, BWV947
• Bach, J S: Fugue in C major, BWV946
• Bach, J S: Keyboard Sonata in A minor, BWV967
• Bach, J S: Keyboard Sonata in D major, BWV963
• Bach, J S: Prelude & Fugue in A major, BWV896
• Bach, J S: Prelude & Fugue in A minor, BWV551
• Bach, J S: Prelude & Fugue in C major, BWV531
• Bach, J S: Prelude & Fugue in D minor BWV549a
• Bach, J S: Prelude & Fugue in E minor, BWV533
• Bach, J S: Prelude & Fugue in G minor, BWV535a
• Bach, J S: Prelude & Partita del tuono terzo in F major, BWV833
• Bach, J S: Suite in A major, BWV832
• Böhm, G: Choral Prelude: Vater unser in Himmelreich
• Frescobaldi: Bergamasca
• Froberger: Canzone
• Grigny: Point d’Orgue sur les Grands Jeux in A minor
• Kuhnau: Suonata quarta 'Hiskia agonizzante e risanato'
• Marchand, L: Suite No.1 in D minor
• Pachelbel: An Wasserflüssen Babylon

CD x 3

Harmonia Mundi

06/04/2018

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