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On her most recent album, the pianist Claire Huangci made her first discographic foray into the chamber-music world of Ernest Chausson and Maurice Ravel. Her latest album creates a musical link almost back to the beginning of her professional career, to her highly acclaimed Scarlatti album, and proves yet again that she has a very close relationship with Baroque repertoire: with Johann Sebastian Bach’s varied and sparklingly virtuoso Toccatas she has taken ownership of a rarely heard collection of works, in which she presents the entire emotional spectrum of the young adult Bach.
The album begins with the most famous toccata in music history, though it is not the sort of work we are used to hearing played on a solo piano recording. Ferruccio Busoni’s transcription of the world famous Bach D minor Toccata, which takes the work normally heard on a mighty Baroque organ and has it played in romanticised manner on a piano keyboard, provides a captivating start, seeming to blow the cobwebs out of the keys, and whets our appetite for the original Bach and all of his seven Toccatas. All were written during Bach’s years in Weimar and bring him alive as a composer who is well versed in the serious art of Baroque counterpoint, yet contrasts this mastery with improvisational, virtuoso runs and dreamy slow passages.
In this programme Claire Huangci's musical diversity comes perfectly into play, whether in the finely traced slow middle movement of the D major toccata, the dazzling brilliance of the beginning of the G minor toccata or the romanticised excesses of the Busoni transcription of BWV 565. © Berlin Classics
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Ferruccio Busoni, Arranger - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Claire Huangci, Artist, MainArtist
2021 Berlin Classics/Edel Germany GmbH 2021 Berlin Classics/Edel Germany GmbH
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Ferruccio Busoni, Arranger - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Claire Huangci, Artist, MainArtist
2021 Berlin Classics/Edel Germany GmbH 2021 Berlin Classics/Edel Germany GmbH
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Claire Huangci, Artist, MainArtist
2021 Berlin Classics/Edel Germany GmbH 2021 Berlin Classics/Edel Germany GmbH
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Claire Huangci, Artist, MainArtist
2021 Berlin Classics/Edel Germany GmbH 2021 Berlin Classics/Edel Germany GmbH
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Claire Huangci, Artist, MainArtist
2021 Berlin Classics/Edel Germany GmbH 2021 Berlin Classics/Edel Germany GmbH
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Claire Huangci, Artist, MainArtist
2021 Berlin Classics/Edel Germany GmbH 2021 Berlin Classics/Edel Germany GmbH
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Claire Huangci, Artist, MainArtist
2021 Berlin Classics/Edel Germany GmbH 2021 Berlin Classics/Edel Germany GmbH
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Claire Huangci, Artist, MainArtist
2021 Berlin Classics/Edel Germany GmbH 2021 Berlin Classics/Edel Germany GmbH
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Claire Huangci, Artist, MainArtist
2021 Berlin Classics/Edel Germany GmbH 2021 Berlin Classics/Edel Germany GmbH
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Claire Huangci, Artist, MainArtist
2021 Berlin Classics/Edel Germany GmbH 2021 Berlin Classics/Edel Germany GmbH
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Claire Huangci, Artist, MainArtist
2021 Berlin Classics/Edel Germany GmbH 2021 Berlin Classics/Edel Germany GmbH
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Claire Huangci, Artist, MainArtist
2021 Berlin Classics/Edel Germany GmbH 2021 Berlin Classics/Edel Germany GmbH
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Claire Huangci, Artist, MainArtist
2021 Berlin Classics/Edel Germany GmbH 2021 Berlin Classics/Edel Germany GmbH
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Claire Huangci, Artist, MainArtist
2021 Berlin Classics/Edel Germany GmbH 2021 Berlin Classics/Edel Germany GmbH
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Claire Huangci, Artist, MainArtist
2021 Berlin Classics/Edel Germany GmbH 2021 Berlin Classics/Edel Germany GmbH
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Claire Huangci, Artist, MainArtist
2021 Berlin Classics/Edel Germany GmbH 2021 Berlin Classics/Edel Germany GmbH
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Claire Huangci, Artist, MainArtist
2021 Berlin Classics/Edel Germany GmbH 2021 Berlin Classics/Edel Germany GmbH
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Claire Huangci, Artist, MainArtist
2021 Berlin Classics/Edel Germany GmbH 2021 Berlin Classics/Edel Germany GmbH
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Claire Huangci, Artist, MainArtist
2021 Berlin Classics/Edel Germany GmbH 2021 Berlin Classics/Edel Germany GmbH
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Claire Huangci, Artist, MainArtist
2021 Berlin Classics/Edel Germany GmbH 2021 Berlin Classics/Edel Germany GmbH
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Claire Huangci, Artist, MainArtist
2021 Berlin Classics/Edel Germany GmbH 2021 Berlin Classics/Edel Germany GmbH
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Claire Huangci, Artist, MainArtist
2021 Berlin Classics/Edel Germany GmbH 2021 Berlin Classics/Edel Germany GmbH
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Claire Huangci, Artist, MainArtist
2021 Berlin Classics/Edel Germany GmbH 2021 Berlin Classics/Edel Germany GmbH
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Claire Huangci, Artist, MainArtist
2021 Berlin Classics/Edel Germany GmbH 2021 Berlin Classics/Edel Germany GmbH
Album review
On her most recent album, the pianist Claire Huangci made her first discographic foray into the chamber-music world of Ernest Chausson and Maurice Ravel. Her latest album creates a musical link almost back to the beginning of her professional career, to her highly acclaimed Scarlatti album, and proves yet again that she has a very close relationship with Baroque repertoire: with Johann Sebastian Bach’s varied and sparklingly virtuoso Toccatas she has taken ownership of a rarely heard collection of works, in which she presents the entire emotional spectrum of the young adult Bach.
The album begins with the most famous toccata in music history, though it is not the sort of work we are used to hearing played on a solo piano recording. Ferruccio Busoni’s transcription of the world famous Bach D minor Toccata, which takes the work normally heard on a mighty Baroque organ and has it played in romanticised manner on a piano keyboard, provides a captivating start, seeming to blow the cobwebs out of the keys, and whets our appetite for the original Bach and all of his seven Toccatas. All were written during Bach’s years in Weimar and bring him alive as a composer who is well versed in the serious art of Baroque counterpoint, yet contrasts this mastery with improvisational, virtuoso runs and dreamy slow passages.
In this programme Claire Huangci's musical diversity comes perfectly into play, whether in the finely traced slow middle movement of the D major toccata, the dazzling brilliance of the beginning of the G minor toccata or the romanticised excesses of the Busoni transcription of BWV 565. © Berlin Classics
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 24 track(s)
- Total length: 01:11:39
- Main artists: Claire Huangci
- Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
- Label: Berlin Classics
- Genre: Classical
2021 Berlin Classics/Edel Germany GmbH 2021 Berlin Classics/Edel Germany GmbH
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