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Title: Miscellaneous Pieces for Harpsichord
Artist: Pieter-Jan Belder
Label: Brilliant Classics
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5028421960654
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2022-10-28
Number of Discs: 3
Over a career spanning more than 30 years, the Dutch harpsichordist and conductor Pieter-Jan Belder has become renowned as a Bach interpreter with his surveys in concert and on record of the keyboard and orchestral masterpieces such as The Well-Tempered Clavier, the Brandenburg Concertos and no fewer than three recordings of the Goldberg Variations. On this new album, recorded in 2020 and 2021 on a modern Titus Crijnen copy of a Ruckers model, Pieter-Jan Belder turns to the overlooked corners of Bach's early writing for the harpsichord. These include standalone fugues, fantasias and suites based on themes by contemporary composers such as Reincken and Albinoni. Nevertheless, there is no sense of routine or technical exercise about them. The pieces here are almost all extrovert, playing to the strengths of the young Bach as a performer as well as composer, and already demonstrating that confidence which would go on to mark his mature compositions. An appreciation of French flair is discernible in the F minor Suite BWV823 and elsewhere, but the dominant influence is the keyboard writing of Girolamo Frescobaldi, whose toccatas and canzonas were studied by Bach from an early age. The better-known pieces here include the sober and songful Aria variata BWV989 with it's courtly French theme, and the E flat Prelude, Fugue and Allegro originally written for lute, but which also finds a happy home on the harpsichord. The most famous but also most uncharacteristic piece is the mysterious Capriccio 'on the departure of a beloved brother' which appears to be a work of Bach's late teenage years, though no definite corroborative proof of it's commission or purpose has yet come to light. Rather, it seems unique in Bach's output as a humorous parody of styles and emotions.
Tracks:
1.1 Fantasie A Minor BWV922
1.2 Ouverture In F BWV820
1.3 Sonata In D BWV963
1.4 Fugue In D Minor BWV948
1.5 Suite In F Minor BWV823
1.6 Prelude And Fugue In B Minor On A Theme By Albinoni
1.7 Praeludium Et Partita Del Tuono Terza In F BWV833
1.8 Prelude And Fugue In A BWV896
1.9 Capriccio In Honorem Johann Christoph Bachii Ohrdruf In E BWV993
1.10 Capriccio Sopra La Lontananza Del Fratello Dilettissimo BWV992
1.11 Suite In A BWV832
1.12 Fugue In C BWV946 After Albinoni
1.13 Fantasia And Fugue In B Minor BWV951a On A Theme By Albinoni
1.14 Fugue In A Bwv950 On A Theme By Albinoni
1.15 Praeludium In C Minor BWV921
1.16 Fantasie In C Minor Bwv1121
1.17 Sonata In A Minor BWV967
1.18 Fantasie In G Minor ‘In Duobus Subiectis’ BWV917
1.19 Fugue In A Minor BWV947
1.20 Canzona In D Minor BWV588
1.21 Fugue In A BWV949
1.22 Praeludium In E Flat BWV815
1.23 Fugue In B Flat BWV955 On A Theme By Erselius
1.24 Aria Variata BWV989
1.25 Sonata In D Minor BWV965 After Reincken
1.26 Fugue In B Flat BWV954 On A Theme By Reincken
1.27 Sonate In C BWV966 After Reincken
1.28 Praeludium, Fugue ; Allegro In E flat BWV998
Artist: Pieter-Jan Belder
Label: Brilliant Classics
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5028421960654
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2022-10-28
Number of Discs: 3
Over a career spanning more than 30 years, the Dutch harpsichordist and conductor Pieter-Jan Belder has become renowned as a Bach interpreter with his surveys in concert and on record of the keyboard and orchestral masterpieces such as The Well-Tempered Clavier, the Brandenburg Concertos and no fewer than three recordings of the Goldberg Variations. On this new album, recorded in 2020 and 2021 on a modern Titus Crijnen copy of a Ruckers model, Pieter-Jan Belder turns to the overlooked corners of Bach's early writing for the harpsichord. These include standalone fugues, fantasias and suites based on themes by contemporary composers such as Reincken and Albinoni. Nevertheless, there is no sense of routine or technical exercise about them. The pieces here are almost all extrovert, playing to the strengths of the young Bach as a performer as well as composer, and already demonstrating that confidence which would go on to mark his mature compositions. An appreciation of French flair is discernible in the F minor Suite BWV823 and elsewhere, but the dominant influence is the keyboard writing of Girolamo Frescobaldi, whose toccatas and canzonas were studied by Bach from an early age. The better-known pieces here include the sober and songful Aria variata BWV989 with it's courtly French theme, and the E flat Prelude, Fugue and Allegro originally written for lute, but which also finds a happy home on the harpsichord. The most famous but also most uncharacteristic piece is the mysterious Capriccio 'on the departure of a beloved brother' which appears to be a work of Bach's late teenage years, though no definite corroborative proof of it's commission or purpose has yet come to light. Rather, it seems unique in Bach's output as a humorous parody of styles and emotions.
Tracks:
1.1 Fantasie A Minor BWV922
1.2 Ouverture In F BWV820
1.3 Sonata In D BWV963
1.4 Fugue In D Minor BWV948
1.5 Suite In F Minor BWV823
1.6 Prelude And Fugue In B Minor On A Theme By Albinoni
1.7 Praeludium Et Partita Del Tuono Terza In F BWV833
1.8 Prelude And Fugue In A BWV896
1.9 Capriccio In Honorem Johann Christoph Bachii Ohrdruf In E BWV993
1.10 Capriccio Sopra La Lontananza Del Fratello Dilettissimo BWV992
1.11 Suite In A BWV832
1.12 Fugue In C BWV946 After Albinoni
1.13 Fantasia And Fugue In B Minor BWV951a On A Theme By Albinoni
1.14 Fugue In A Bwv950 On A Theme By Albinoni
1.15 Praeludium In C Minor BWV921
1.16 Fantasie In C Minor Bwv1121
1.17 Sonata In A Minor BWV967
1.18 Fantasie In G Minor ‘In Duobus Subiectis’ BWV917
1.19 Fugue In A Minor BWV947
1.20 Canzona In D Minor BWV588
1.21 Fugue In A BWV949
1.22 Praeludium In E Flat BWV815
1.23 Fugue In B Flat BWV955 On A Theme By Erselius
1.24 Aria Variata BWV989
1.25 Sonata In D Minor BWV965 After Reincken
1.26 Fugue In B Flat BWV954 On A Theme By Reincken
1.27 Sonate In C BWV966 After Reincken
1.28 Praeludium, Fugue ; Allegro In E flat BWV998
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