BACH: Contemplation

Queffélec, Anne

MIR 082

Nakład wyprzedany, ostatnie 2 egzemplarze

Bach composed his Goldberg Variations for the sleepless Count Keyserlingk, but obviously not as a lullaby, otherwise he would hardly have used his entire compositional imagination to create one of the most exciting variation works of his time. Since he himself published it in his Clavier-Übung, he will have been clear about the rank of his composition. In the title Bach, who was otherwise thrifty with instrumentation details, determines the work explicitly for the harpsichord. So Gunther Rost takes a risk when he plays the work faithfully on the manuals of the organ. But he brings with him the fullness of the timbres of a glittering new French baroque organ, to represent the wealth of ideas of Bach's music, which his pupil Johann Gottlieb Goldberg played to his sleepless master as nightly entertainment on the harpsichord. • Under the title Contemplations Anne Queffélec has put together a programme of slow movements from Bach's oeuvre, original works or transcriptions by Busoni, Hess, Kempff and others to create a very personal homage to Bach.

Works:

• Bach, J S: Cantata BWV22 'Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe'
• Bach, J S: Capriccio sopra la lontananza del suo fratello dilettissimo, BWV992
• Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV639 'Ich ruf' zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ'
• Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV659 'Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland'
• Bach, J S: Flute Sonata No. 2, BWV1031: Siciliano in G minor
• Bach, J S: Goldberg Variations, BWV988: Aria
• Bach, J S: Jesu, bleibet meine Freude (from Cantata BWV147 'Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben')
• Bach, J S: Prelude & Fugue Book 2 No. 14 in F sharp major, BWV883: Prelude
• Bach, J S: Toccata, Adagio & Fugue in C major, BWV564: Adagio
• Bach, J S: Toccata, Adagio & Fugue in C major, BWV564: Toccata

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Muzyka klasyczna

Mirare

11-02-2009

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