Bach - Music for Lute | Alpha ALPHA361

Bach - Music for Lute

Label: Alpha

Cat No: ALPHA361

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 22nd June 2018

Contents

About

Thomas Dunford continues to expand his discography on Alpha with a programme of solo lute works by J.S. Bach, recorded in the ideal surroundings of the Salle de Musique of La Chaux-de-Fonds in Switzerland. He performs an original composition by Bach for lute, the Suite in G minor BWV 995, as well as his own arrangements of the (Cello) Suite BWV 1007 and the famous Chaconne from the Partita BWV 1004 – the latter piece has a notorious reputation for being (virtually) unplayable, at least on the violin!

‘It’s really delicate music, like fine needlework in a tapestry, and everyone’s sitting in complete silence. There’s no shuffling. He manages to draw everybody in. That’s a really special talent.’ – The Spectator

Reviews

What we get with Dunford’s Bach is instead a certain purity, a relatively unadorned line which assimilates articulation in favour of flow and clarity. The expression – of form or emotion – is all in the phrasing, which relies on the art of silence as much as a subtle rubato. It’s quite beautiful and refreshing, as though excrescences have been shorn away to reveal the classical architecture underneath.  Lindsay Kemp
Gramophone September 2018

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