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Bach, J S: | Two-part Inventions Nos. 1-15, BWV772-786 Three-part Inventions (Sinfonias) Nos. 1-15, BWV787-801 French Suite No. 6 in E major, BWV817 Partita No. 2 in C minor, BWV826 Six Little Preludes, BWV933-938 Five Little Preludes, BWV939-943 Prelude in C minor, BWV999 Nine Little Preludes, BWV924-930 Prelude in A minor, BWV931 Fughetta in C minor, BWV961 Fugue in C major, BWV952 Fugue in C major, BWV953 Prelude & Fughetta in G major, BWV902 Prelude & Fughetta in D minor, BWV899 Prelude & Fughetta in E minor, BWV900 Prelude & Fugue in A minor, BWV895 |
This double-CD release offers some rare recordings (especially the Praeludien mit Fughetten on CD 2) played by one of Italy’s most talented and acclaimed pianists. “Bacchetti’s style is unconventional but never iconoclastic . . . It marries a profound musical instinct with a keen and well-informed intellect, and an approach to the instrument . . . Which makes many of his colleagues seem like crude beginners. . . . He may thus never have the career he so richly deserves, but deserve it he most emphatically does” Piano Magazine “All fascinating stuff, impeccably recorded and a most enjoyable release” American Record Guide, October 2009 “There are some very fine Bach keyboard players around, but I find his highly individual style uniquely enjoyable and uplifting. Bacchetti's way of playing is hard to characterise, and impossible to in a single word. He is supremely concerned to articulate every voice, but that doesn't mean that his playing is didactic” BBC Music Magazine, September 2009 ***** “More than two-and-a-half hours of Bach's solo keyboard music, sensitively played by Andrea Bacchetti…” Classic FM Magazine “Bacchetti allows his luminous sonority to soar without pressure or fuss” Gramophone Magazine, October 2009 “Andrea Bacchetti is a pianist at home across the whole extent of the piano literature, with his Bach playing well able to rank alongside the finest present-day exponents” International Piano, September/October 2009 “Andrea Bacchetti's playing of Bach is fluid, fluent, flexible and mellifluous” International Record Review, September 2009 “Beautiful atmosphere and legato playing are again aspects of Bacchetti’s playing which bring me back every time” Donny Clements, MusicWeb International, September 2009 “[Bacchetti] plays them with spontaneous freshness and plenty of expressive life, and these two discs make very appealing listening.” Penguin Guide “Intensely personal, musically discriminating at a very high level, highly sophisticated pianistically” Piano, September 2009  BBC Music Magazine
Disc of the month - September 2009 |
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| |  | J.S Bach: The French Suites
Bach, J S: | Keyboard Sonata in D Minor, BWV964 French Suites Nos. 1-6, BWV812-817 Six Little Preludes, BWV933-938 Prelude & Fugue in A minor, BWV894 Prelude in C major, BWV924 Prelude in D major, BWV925 Prelude in D minor, BWV926 Prelude in F major, BWV927 Prelude in G minor, BWV930 Five Little Preludes, BWV939-943 Prelude in C minor, BWV999 |
The rhythms of the dance have always provided composers with a vital source of inspiration. Bach was no exception, and a very high percentage of his music is related to the dance. Perhaps this is largely what gives it that marvellous vitality and spirit, and why it is so immediately appealing. The six French Suites contain some of Bach’s most attractive keyboard writing. The eight Little Preludes are among the most valuable pieces ever written for beginners, giving a wonderful introduction to voice imitation, pedal points, cadenza-like passages, and basic ornamentation. They cover many different moods and recall fond childhood memories. The remaining pieces on this recording are of a completely different nature. Both the Sonata in D minor, BWV964, and the Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV894, are virtuoso pieces, intended to show off the ability of the performer. Canadian pianist Angela Hewitt is the acknowledged master of Bach on the piano. 'Hewitt's playing makes Bach's music live, for me, in a way that even the greatest harpsichordists do not' (The Sunday Times) “Even the most out-and-out purists who blench at the thought of Bach on the piano will find it hard not to be won over by Angela Hewitt's artistry. Eschewing all hieratic pretentiousness on the one hand and self-regarding eccentricities on the other, she gives us Bach performances that aren't only admirable in style but marked by poise, and what used to be called a 'quiet hand': 'chaste' might not be too fanciful a term, so long as that does not suggest any lack of vitality. There's intelligence in her carefully thought-out phrasing and subtle variety of articulation: gradations of sound are always alive without their becoming precious. The bulk of this recording is devoted to the FrenchSuites. Particularly enjoyable is the lightness of her treatment of the Airs of Nos 2 and 4, the vigour of No 5's Bourrée and the freshness of No 6's Allemande; the extra decorations she adds in repeats everywhere sound properly spontaneous and are in the best of taste; ornaments are always cleanly played and matched up in imitative voices.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | J S Bach: From the W.F. Bach Notebook
Bach, J S: | Partia di Signore Steltzeln Allemande in G minor, BWV836 Minuet in G major, BWV841 Minuet in G minor, BWV842 Minuet in G major, BWV843 Nine Little Preludes, BWV924-930 Prelude & Fugue Book 1 No. 2 in C minor, BWV847: Prelude Prelude & Fugue Book 1 No. 3 in C sharp minor, BWV848: Prelude Prelude in C sharp minor, BWV849 Prelude & Fugue Book 1 No. 5 in D major, BWV850: Prelude Prelude in D minor, BWV851 Prelude in E flat minor, BWV853 Prelude in E major, BWV854 Prelude in E minor, BWV855a Prelude in F major, BWV856 Prelude in F minor, BWV857 Fugue in C major, BWV953 Suite in A major, BWV824 Five Little Preludes, BWV939-943 |
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| |  | Bach as TeacherKeyboard Works from the Cöthen Period
Bach, J S: | Suite in E flat major, BWV819a Chorale Prelude BWV957 'Machs mit mir, Gott, nach deiner Güt' Chorale Prelude BWV957 'Machs mit mir, Gott, nach deiner Güt' Prelude & Fughetta in G major, BWV902 Prelude & Fugue Book 2 No. 6 in D minor, BWV875 Fugue in D minor, BWV948 Prelude & Fughetta in F major, BWV901 Prelude & Fugue Book 2 No. 3 in C sharp major, BWV 872 Fugue in C major, BWV953 Prelude & Fugue in A minor, BWV895 Fugue in A minor, BWV947 Prelude & Fughetta in E minor, BWV900 Fugue in E Minor, BWV956 Sarabande in G minor, BWV839 Courante in G major, BWV840 Fantasia in C minor, BWV918 'Fantasie sur un Rondeau' Chromatic Fantasia in D minor, BWV903a Applicato in C major, BWV994 Nine Little Preludes, BWV924-930 Prelude in A minor, BWV931 Fughetta in C minor, BWV961 Fugue in C major, BWV952 Fantasia in C minor, BWV919 Five Little Preludes, BWV939-943 Six Little Preludes, BWV933-938 Prelude & Fugue Book 2 No. 1 in C major, BWV870 Prelude & Fughetta in D minor, BWV899 Suite in A minor, BWV818 |
Hardly a child has learned piano for the last two hundred years without in the course of her training encountering and profiting from keyboard music which Johann Sebastian Bach composed specifically for the purpose of developing the minds and hands of young keyboardists. | | | (also available to download from $21.25) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | JS Bach: Inventions, Preludes & Symphonies
Bach, J S: | Two-part Inventions Nos. 1-15, BWV772-786 Five Little Preludes, BWV939-943 Prelude in C major, BWV924 Prelude in D minor, BWV926 Prelude in F major, BWV927 Prelude in G minor, BWV930 Prelude in F major, BWV928 Prelude in D major, BWV925 Six Little Preludes, BWV933-938 Prelude in C minor, BWV999 Three-part Inventions (Sinfonias) Nos. 1-15, BWV787-801 |
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| |  | Angela Hewitt plays Bach
Bach, J S: | Fantasia in C minor, BWV906 Two-part Inventions Nos. 1-15, BWV772-786 Three-part Inventions (Sinfonias) Nos. 1-15, BWV787-801 Chromatic Fantasia & Fugue in D minor, BWV903 English Suites Nos. 1-6, BWV806-811 French Suites Nos. 1-6, BWV812-817 Partitas Nos. 1-6, BWV825-830 The Well-Tempered Clavier, Books 1 & 2 2008 Recording Italian Concerto, BWV971 Capriccio sopra la lontananza del suo fratello dilettissimo, BWV992 Capriccio in E major, BWV993 Duets Nos. 1-4, BWV802-805 French Overture in B minor, BWV831 Goldberg Variations, BWV988 Toccatas, BWV910-916 Fantasia & Fugue in A minor, BWV904 Aria Variata in A minor, BWV989 ‘alla Maniera Italiana' Keyboard Sonata in D major, BWV963 Suite in A major, BWV832 Suite in F minor, BWV823 Adagio in G major, BWV968 Fugue in C major, BWV953 Chorale Prelude BWV728 'Jesu, meine Zuversicht' Chorale Prelude BWV691 'Wer nun den lieben Gott lässt walten' Fantasia & Fugue in A minor, BWV944 Nine Little Preludes, BWV924-930 Six Little Preludes, BWV933-938 Five Little Preludes, BWV939-943 Prelude in C minor, BWV999 Prelude & Fugue in A minor, BWV894 Aria Variata in A minor, BWV989 ‘alla Maniera Italiana' Keyboard Sonata in D Minor, BWV964 |
+ 77-minute bonus sampler disc Angela Hewitt’s acclaimed recordings of Bach on the piano have received the highest critical acclaim and found their way into thousands of homes, selling nearly 400,000 copies since her recording of the Inventions burst onto the scene in 1994. Now for the first time Angela’s complete solo Bach is available as a boxed set of 15 CDs at a special price. A perfect gift for the few music-lovers left in the world who have not experienced these matchless performances; and for those who have, a chance to fall in love all over again. ‘Angela Hewitt’s Bach has long been a thing of wonder’ (The Daily Telegraph) ‘Everything is right, everything is natural – this is Bach on the piano of the highest quality imaginable’ (The Guardian) ‘I know of no musician whose Bach playing on any instrument is of greater subtlety, beauty of tone, persuasiveness of judgement or instrumental command than Hewitt's is here’ (BBC Music Magazine) ‘Hewitt remains today's finest exponent of Bach's keyboard music’ (Gramophone) | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | JS Bach: Complete Keyboard Works
Bach, J S: | Goldberg Variations, BWV988 Toccatas, BWV910-916 French Overture in B minor, BWV831 French Suites Nos. 1-6, BWV812-817 Italian Concerto, BWV971 The Well-Tempered Clavier, Books 1 & 2 English Suites Nos. 1-6, BWV806-811 Partitas Nos. 1-6, BWV825-830 The Art of Fugue, BWV1080 Keyboard Concerto in D major (after Vivaldi), BWV972 Keyboard Concerto in G major (after Vivaldi), BWV973 Keyboard Concerto in D minor (after Marcello), BWV974 Keyboard Concerto in G minor (after Vivaldi), BWV975 Keyboard Concerto in C major (after Vivaldi), BWV976 Keyboard Concerto in C major (after Vivaldi), BWV 977 Keyboard Concerto in F major (after Vivaldi), BWV978 Keyboard Concerto in B minor (after Torelli), BWV 979 Keyboard Concerto in G major (after Vivaldi), BWV980 Keyboard Concerto in C minor (after Marcello), BWV981 Keyboard Concerto in B flat major (after Ernst), BWV 982 Keyboard Concerto in G minor, BWV 983 Keyboard Concerto in C major (after Ernst), BWV 984 Keyboard Concerto in G minor (after Telemann), BWV985 Keyboard Concerto in G major (after Telemann), BWV 986 Keyboard Concerto in D minor (after Ernst), BWV 987 Keyboard Concerto in G major (after Ernst), BWV592a Prelude & Fugue in A minor, BWV894 Prelude & Fugue in A minor, BWV895 Prelude & Fugue in A major, BWV896 Fugue in C major, BWV953 Fughetta in C minor, BWV961 Prelude & Fughetta in D minor, BWV899 Fugue in C major, BWV953 Prelude & Fughetta in E minor, BWV900 Prelude & Fughetta in F major, BWV901 Prelude & Fughetta in G major, BWV902 Prelude in C minor, BWV921 Prelude in B Minor BWV923 Fugue in B minor on a theme by Albinoni, BWV951 Fugue in D minor, BWV948 Fugue in C major, BWV946 Fugue in C major, BWV952 Fugue in A minor, BWV959 Fugue in A major, BWV949 Keyboard Sonata in A minor (after Reincken), BWV965 Keyboard Sonata in C major, BWV966 Keyboard Sonata in D major, BWV963 Keyboard Sonata in A minor, BWV967 Prelude, Fugue & Allegro for Lute in E flat major, BWV998 Duets Nos. 1-4, BWV802-805 Suite in A minor, BWV818a Suite in A minor, BWV818 Suite in E flat major, BWV819 Suite in E flat major, BWV819a Overture (Suite) in F major, BWV820 Suite in F minor, BWV823 Suite in A major, BWV832 Prelude & Partita del tuono terzo in F major, BWV833 Suite in G minor, BWV822 Chromatic Fantasia & Fugue in D minor, BWV903 Fantasia & Fugue in A minor, BWV904 Fantasia & Fugue in C minor, BWV906 Fantasia & Fugue in A minor, BWV944 Fantasia in C minor, BWV918 'Fantasie sur un Rondeau' Fantasia in G minor, BWV917 'duobus subjectis' Fantasia in A minor, BWV922 Capriccio sopra la lontananza del suo fratello dilettissimo, BWV992 Aria Variata in A minor, BWV989 ‘alla Maniera Italiana' Capriccio in E major, BWV993 Two-part Inventions Nos. 1-15, BWV772-786 Five Little Preludes, BWV939-943 Prelude in C major, BWV924 Prelude in D minor, BWV926 Prelude in F major, BWV927 Prelude in G minor, BWV930 Prelude in F major, BWV928 Prelude in D major, BWV925 Six Little Preludes, BWV933-938 Prelude in C minor, BWV999 Three-part Inventions (Sinfonias) Nos. 1-15, BWV787-801 |
In 1994, pianist Ivo Janssen started a very ambitious project: performing and recording the complete keyboard works by J S Bach. In February 1998 the first CD in this series was released, on his own label VOID, which was especially started for this purpose. This set is the only complete keyboard set containing previously cut passages and includes 191 BWV numbers and over 23 hours of music. “Janssen has admirable skills for the task: a pianist’s sensibility, an unflagging imagination and compelling musicianship.” American Record Guide. “there’s a sense of fly-by-night impetuosity about some of these performances, all taped in the same venue with the same producer...Janssen seems comparatively straight after Glenn Gould, but he’s much easier to live with in the long term...Janssen’s warmth and affection is impressive; this is humane, witty playing.” The Arts Desk, 26th November 2011 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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