Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Phantasm
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Linn
Release: 2020
Size: 1.91 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Musical Offering, BWV 1079: Ricercar a3
02. Inventions and Sinfonias: Sinfonia No. 9, BWV 795
03. An Wasserflüssen Babylon, BWV 653b
04. The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1: I. Prelude No. 19, BWV 864
05. The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1: II. Fugue No. 19, BWV 864
06. Prelude and Fugue in C Major, BWV 547: II. Fugue
07. The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 2: II. Fugue No. 17, BWV 886
08. The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1: I. Prelude No. 22, BWV 867
09. The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1: II. Fugue No. 22, BWV 867
10. The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1: II. Fugue No. 14, BWV 859
11. The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1: I. Prelude No. 24, BWV 869
12. The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1: II. Fugue No. 24, BWV 869
13. The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1: II. Fugue No. 9, BWV 854
14. Clavier-Übung III: Aus tiefer Not, BWV 686
15. The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 2: I. Prelude No. 22, BWV 891
16. The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 2: II. Fugue No. 22, BWV 891
17. Vater unser im Himmelreich, BWV 737
18. Clavier-Übung III: Fugue, BWV 552
19. Clavier-Übung III: Kyrie, Gott heiliger Geist, BWV 671
20. Musical Offering, BWV 1079: Ricercar a6
In this new recording Phantasm make no excuses for arranging some of Bach’s remarkable keyboard music for a consort of viols.
Led by director Laurence Dreyfus they go on a conscious mission to uncover the hidden riches concealed behind the more neutral resources of the harpsichord and organ so as to liberate the fascinating characters lurking in the shadows and behind the scenes within Bach’s individual polyphonic lines. In the process of fugal confrontation among three to six musicians, they come face to face with the astounding psychological insights of Bach’s most radical inventions.
Drawn chiefly from the two books of the Well-Tempered Clavier, the Musical Offering and the Clavier-Übung III, the repertoire chosen for this recording has an uncanny way of forging Bach’s links with the old English traditions of the Fantasy and In nomine as much as leaping forward into a chromatic twelve-tone world where the raw emotions of expressionist modernism become not only audible but adventurously relevant.
A second instalment of The Well-Tempered Consort is already planned for 2021.