Rannou, Blandine

ZZT 030401

In the French and English Suites, Blandine Rannou makes us seize the vocabulary of "this customary and reassuring language inscribed in a French tradition prevalent in Europe": dances, rhythm, phrasing, articulation ... "If any of the elements to be transmitted in the French Suites could be to dance music, the English Suites are on another level. Bach starts here with the usual structures (dance suites, tonal structure, rhythmic or thematic dance) and asks the question of variation. It creates amazing innovations. The richness of the ornamentation makes disappear the rhythmic structure of the dance, the melodic lines become the horizontal unfolding of chords, the profusion of the lines of triples, quaver quadrules erode the dance ... The richness of this writing game does not Would it not answer here to a desire to "play the dance" after having the music dance? With the Toccatas, Bach- and his predecessors before him- explores "with" fantasy "and majesty the different faces that can take the pleasure of touching the keyboard; virtuosity out of a precise tactus, strict polyphony, brilliant fugues, adagios adorned, recitative ... follow one another in differentiated sections but in a global architecture clearly and masterfully conceived. "In his musical and sound work - alongside Franck Jaffrès - Blandine Rannou was pleased to seek" the gushing and playful fantasy of the toccata, in the majestic and sovereign expression of the organ ... "

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