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J.S. Bach: Adventskantaten

Philippe Herreweghe

Classical - Released August 1, 1997 | harmonia mundi

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Spira, Spera

Emmanuel Despax

Classical - Released March 26, 2021 | Signum Records

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Emmanuel Despax returns to Signum with a programme of JS Bach transcriptions. The title quotes Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (“Breathe, Hope”), brought to Despax’s mind following the news of the fire at Notre-Dame Cathedral, where he had attended many concerts of Bach’s music as a child. Despax describes Bach’s music as being “of such clarity, coherence and expressive power, that it is able to transcend its original medium, and to some extent, style”. This virtuosic programme combines both well-known transcriptions, such as the mighty Bach-Busoni Chaconne and Saint-Saën’s Overture, with recordings of several arrangements by the late 19th/early 20th century pianist Theodor Szántó’s – featuring his monumental and uncompromising transcriptions of the Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, and the Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor. © Signum Classics
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Johann Sebastian Bach: Transcriptions

Ensemble Contraste

Classical - Released February 25, 2013 | La Dolce Volta

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Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988

Tzimon Barto

Classical - Released May 5, 2015 | CapriccioNR

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The possessor of a broad repertoire, pianist Tzimon Barto plays music from the Baroque to the modern periods, and his technical facility in all genres of keyboard music is noteworthy. However, he tends to be strongest in Romantic and post-Romantic works, and this seems to influence his style of playing music by J.S. Bach, whose Goldberg Variations receive a decidedly freewheeling and Romantic treatment on this Capriccio recording. Sample the opening statement of the Aria, and note how slowly and dreamily Barto interprets the melody, stretching it almost to the point of unrecognizability. What follows is a highly variable and excitable set of variations that are tugged about with ample rubato, elastic rhythms, and random dynamics, all hallmarks of self-indulgent playing. Perhaps listeners with a taste for the novel and eccentric will find Barto to their liking, and the most jaded may find this performance to be a startling take on a classic that has grown stale from too much exposure. But anyone who values steadiness of execution and consistency of expression in the Goldberg Variations will find this reading undisciplined, unpredictable, and whimsical, and fans of historically informed performance practices will pass it by without a qualm. © TiVo
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J.S. Bach: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 61

Netherlands Bach Collegium

Classical - Released November 28, 2021 | Brilliant Classics

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Johann Sebastian Bach

Víkingur Ólafsson

Solo Piano - Released September 7, 2018 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

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Bach Transcriptions

Olivier Fortin

Classical - Released November 3, 2023 | Alpha Classics

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J.S. Bach: Piano Transcriptions

Kotaro Fukuma

Classical - Released June 18, 2021 | Naxos Japan

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Johann Sebastian Bach: The Complete Works for Keyboard, Vol. 7: Orgelbüchlein, BWV 599-644 (with choir)

Benjamin Alard

Choral Music (Choirs) - Released October 14, 2022 | harmonia mundi

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With its forty-five chorale preludes, the Orgelbüchlein bears witness to a mastery of the art of improvisation on the organ, as the congregation heard it at the time before singing the hymn in its turn. It was a tempting experiment to revive this primary function: by collaborating with the combined forces of the Ensemble Vocal Bergamasque and the Maîtrise de Notre-Dame de Paris, Benjamin Alard gives the "little organ book" its full significance and expressive power. © harmonia mundi
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Numinosum: Works by Bach-Busoni, Liszt, Franck & Messiaen

Joachim Carr

Classical - Released July 7, 2023 | Claves Records

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J.S. Bach: Organ Works, Vol. 4

Masaaki Suzuki

Classical - Released July 21, 2023 | BIS

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The great Masaaki Suzuki's traversal of Bach's keyboard music is well underway, and several attractions have become clear. In general, though, the interpretations are clearly characteristic of the musician who recorded all of Bach's cantatas; he is a bit less concerned with a pearly surface and a bit more with direct expression. In works for organ, he has shown a willingness to delve into period instruments, and the one here, the 1737 Christoph Treutmann organ of Stiftskirche St. Georg, Grauhof in Germany's Lower Saxony region, is a real find. It is an instrument that Bach might have played; at the very least, it is similar to the ones he knew, and it brings the organ music on this release alive. The instrument's occasional clanking noises do not detract from, and arguably even enhance, its remarkable variety of colors; the delicate stops here (try Vom Himmel kam der Engel Schaar) are glorious. Suzuki is willing to take a bit of time to bring out these colors; there is nothing too radical, but there are subtle adjustments to the tempo throughout that define the profile of each little ornamented chorale, and all the performances are vivid. Hear the swirly effects of In dulci jubilo, BWV 608. The pieces, except for an entr'acte prelude and fugue, are associated with the holiday season. This album was released in the summer of 2023; it may not have been intended as a Christmas album, but it would make a wonderful purchase at that time.© James Manheim /TiVo
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Lux aeterna: Visions of Bach

Beatrice Berrut

Classical - Released January 12, 2015 | Aparté

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J.S. Bach: The Complete Works for Keyboard, Vol. 1 - The Young Heir - Le Jeune héritier

Benjamin Alard

Classical - Released December 15, 2017 | harmonia mundi

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Organ player and harpsichordist, titular player of the Aubertin organ of the Saint-Louis-en l'Île church in Paris, where he regularly plays Bach in concert, Benjamin Alard is an unstoppable talent. Passionate about the world of Johann Sebastian Bach, this young man, "reserved, with an understated sense of humour", has undertaken a complete recording of the Cantor's keyboard works for harmonia mundi. The project is vast, and has never before been completed by a single musician. Benjamin Alard's very original approach is based on the idea of taking on this vast catalogue split into fourteen chapters, following the timeline of the composer's life, describing his influences, his travels and his professional choices. Every volume is to be thought of as a series of episodes retracing the life and works of the Cantor of Leipzig. This first volume paints a picture of "the young heir", whose music is still very much a tribute to his predecessors, such as Georg Böhm, Johann Kuhnau, Tomaso Albinoni, Johann Pachelbel, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Louis Marchand and Johann Jakob Froberger. The instruments used for this complete recording have been selected, thankfully, with great care. Recorded in May 2017, this first volume uses the Silberman organ in Sainte-Aurélie in Strasbourg, a superb instrument built in 2017, which benefited from a magnificent restoration in 2015, to mark its tricentenary. As for the harpsichord, it is a modern instrument produced by manufacturer Émile Jobin, inspired by models from Ruckers and Dulcken. A young man of his times, Benjamin Alard accompanies this complete works with an original idea: every work is recorded and published separately on streaming and download sites (like Qobuz), along with videos on social media. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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Johann Sebastian Bach

Víkingur Ólafsson

Classical - Released September 7, 2018 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

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Bach, J.S.: Italian Concerto, etc.

Alfred Brendel

Classical - Released January 1, 1977 | Decca Music Group Ltd.

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Brendel Plays Bach including The Italian Concerto & Chromatic Fantasy

Alfred Brendel

Classical - Released January 1, 1977 | Decca Music Group Ltd.

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Bach, J.S.: Cantatas, Vol. 13

Joanne Lunn

Classical - Released October 1, 2009 | SDG

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J.S. Bach: Tranquillity

Jonathan Phillips

Classical - Released April 8, 2022 | Divine Art

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