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Richard Egarr is the doyen of English harpsichordists at present, displaying uninhibited virtuosity, rhetorical and dramatic sensibilities, and an ear for refinement of sound. This discriminating... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Release Date: 11th Mar 2004
Catalogue No: HMU907329
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Length: 79 minutes

Gramophone Magazine

April 2004

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Bach, J S: Concerto in G Major, BWV 973

Work length6:55

$3.00

$3.90

Richard Egarr

I. Allegro

Track length2:28

$1.00

$1.30

II. Largo

Track length1:59

$1.00

$1.30

III. Allegro

Track length2:28

$1.00

$1.30

Bach, J S: Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue, BWV 903

Work length11:14

$2.00

$2.60

Richard Egarr

I. Fantasia

Track length5:24

$1.00

$1.30

II. Fugue

Track length5:50

$1.00

$1.30

Bach, J S: Keyboard Concerto in D major (after Vivaldi), BWV972

Work length7:35

$3.00

$3.90

Richard Egarr

I. Allegro

Track length2:14

$1.00

$1.30

II. Larghetto

Track length3:04

$1.00

$1.30

III. Allegro

Track length2:17

$1.00

$1.30

Bach, J S: Fantasia in A minor, BWV904

Work length9:11

$2.00

$2.60

Richard Egarr

I. Fantaisie

Track length4:07

$1.00

$1.30

II. Fugue

Track length5:04

$1.00

$1.30

Excerpt, Bach, J S: Italian Concerto, BWV971

Work length9:15

$2.00

$2.60

Richard Egarr

I. Allegro

Track length4:24

$1.00

$1.30

II. Andante

Track length4:51

$1.00

$1.30

Bach, J S: Concerto italien, BWV 971

Work length3:49

$1.00

$1.30

Richard Egarr

III. Presto

Track length3:49

$1.00

$1.30

Bach, J S: Adagio in A Minor, BWV 965

Work length19:03

$6.00

$7.80

Richard Egarr

I. Adagio

Track length1:46

$1.00

$1.30

II. Fugue - Adagio - Presto

Track length5:00

$1.00

$1.30

III. Allemande

Track length4:53

$1.00

$1.30

IV. Courante

Track length2:40

$1.00

$1.30

V. Sarabande

Track length1:40

$1.00

$1.30

VI. Gigue

Track length3:04

$1.00

$1.30

Bach, J S: Fantasia & Fugue in C minor, BWV906

Work length7:47

$2.00

$2.60

Richard Egarr

I. Fantasia

Track length4:51

$1.00

$1.30

II. Fugue (incomplete)

Track length2:56

$1.00

$1.30

Bach, J S: Fugue in C Minor, reworked by Richard Egarr, after BWV 906

Work length4:21

$1.00

$1.30

Richard Egarr

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Richard Egarr is the doyen of English harpsichordists at present, displaying uninhibited virtuosity, rhetorical and dramatic sensibilities, and an ear for refinement of sound. This discriminating recital combines the familiar (including a marvellously dapper Italian Concerto) with more pragmatic and intimate Bachian creations which are too often lost in the crevices of the expert's discography. The two Vivaldi concertos are idiomatic, thrilling and revealing exposés of Bach's hands-on approach to mastering new styles. Perhaps more diverting still is the Fantasia and Fugue in A minor, where Egarr shrewdly considers the intense coexistence of contrapuntal and textural relationships in the fantasia, before a fugue of extraordinary clarity of interpretative design. This is playing of real stature.
The remarkable Sonata in A minor, after Bach's aged spiritual mentor Reinken, might have been arranged as early as 1703; it's a masterful demonstration of a young man in full creative flow. Egarr has the edge on Staier's penetrating but relatively dry execution; here we have a quasi-Toccata and Fugue of dazzling colour and affirmation before an Allemande portrayed with somewhat looser stitching, a highly affecting manipulation of rhythm. This exquisite recital ends with the mature, unfinished Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, with Egarr's own reworking of the fugue.

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