JS Bach - 7 Toccatas BWV910-916
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 96059
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 14th February 2020
Contents
Artists
Pieter-Jan Belder (harpsichord)About
This was the tradition that the youthful Bach inherited and embellished in his unique way. All the toccatas on this album probably date from the composer’s period in service to the ducal court at Weimar, in the first decade of the 18th century. Composed while still in his twenties, they are young man’s music, designed both to impress and delight his listeners, both by the facility of his invention and no less by the virtuosity of his performance. BWV910 is built to an especially grand design of two contrasting fugues, the second modelled on a refined French chaconne which recalls some of the composer’s earliest masterpieces such as the C minor Passacaglia for organ and the Cantata BWV12, Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, the ground bass of which is almost identical to the fugue subject.
Pieter-Jan Belder’s reputation in Bach is securely established, with albums of all themajor keyboard works to his credit. ‘You can’t really go wrong with this set’ of The Well-Tempered Clavier (BC93892) according to Fanfare magazine, who also praised Belder’s ongoing Brilliant Classics to record the complete Fitzwilliam Madrigal Book: ‘His playing is both skilful and nicely detailed. Each line is clear and unambiguous, so that the inner workings of the often complex works shines forth. In my opinion, this (and its companion volumes) will turn out to be the model against which all other recordings of the Fitzwilliam will be matched.’
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