Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Cyprien Katsaris
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Piano 21
Release: 2022
Size: 612 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Fantasia and Fugue in C Minor, BWV 906
01. Fantasia
02. Fugue
Toccata in D Major, BWV 912
03. Presto
04. Allegro
05. Adagio – Presto
06. Fuga
07. Prelude in A Minor, BWV 922 “Fantasia”
Aria variata alla maniera italiana in A Minor, BWV 989
08. Thema
09. Variation 1. Largo
10. Variation 2
11. Variation 3
12. Variation 4. Allegro
13. Variation 5. Un poco allegro
14. Variation 6. Andante
15. Variation 7. Un poco allegro
16. Variation 8. Allegro
17. Variation 9
18. Variation 10
Suite in E Major, BWV 1006a (Played on the Piano)
19. I. Preludio
20. II. Loure
21. III. Gavotte en Rondeau
22. IV. Menuet I
23. V. Menuet II
24. VI. Bourrée
25. VII. Gigue
26. Fugue on a Theme of Albinoni in C Major, BWV 946
27. Fugue on a Theme of Albinoni in A Major, BWV 950
28. Fugue on a Theme of Albinoni in B Minor, BWV 951
In 1994 under his contract with Sony, Cyprien Katsaris travelled to Hamburg to partake of the beautiful acoustics of the Friedrich-Ebert Halle for the recording of a number of J. S. Bach’s works wherein we find the distinctive stamp of Italian music of the late XVIIth and early XVIIIth Centuries and the concert sound of flamboyant, virtuoso violins. Sony published some of these recordings in 1995 as part of the recital “Italy in Bach”. In bringing together the unpublished Sony recordings from those sessions and those from another, also hitherto unpublished session dating from 2000 in the Van Geest Studio, thus rounding out the “Bach Recital” issued by Piano 21 in 2009 (P007), Cyprien Katsaris presents us with a most delectable double new album dedicated to the composer of the Brandenburg Concertos. The second part will be released in next March.