• In his Bach “journey”; the recording of the complete keyboard works by Johann Sebastian Bach, harpsichordist Pieter-Jan Belder has compiled a collection of “miscellaneous” works, mostly early works: suites, sonatas, fantasias, variations, a capriccio, fugues and preludes & fugues. These pieces offer a fascinating insight in the “making of genius”, the experiments with musical ideas, form and rhetoric which clearly show the hand of the Master he became later.
• Included are some very attractive works, like the Capriccio sopra la lontananza del Fratello dilettissimo BWV992, a delightful programmatic work, the Aria Variata BWV 989 and the Ouverture in F BWV 820.
• Pieter-Jan Belder is currently engaged in the new recording of the complete keyboard works by Bach. Belder is one of the world’s foremost keyboard players, with an astonishing number of CD’s to his name: the complete Scarlatti Sonatas, Bach keyboard works, Rameau, Soler, Duphly, Marais, CPE Bach, Corelli, Purcell, Telemann, the complete Fitzwilliam Virginal Book...to be continued. Critics praise his versatility, his innate feeling for style, his impeccable technique: “Superb keyboard artistry and consummate technique”(MusicWeb), “alive, fresh-sounding and thoroughly engaged..” (Fanfare), “The most vital Bach performances of the moment” (Volkskrant).
