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Over a career spanning more than 30 years, the Dutch harpsichordist and conductor Pieter-Jan Belder has become renowned as a Bach interpreter with his surveys in concert and on record of the keyboard and orchestral masterpieces such as The Well-Tempered Clavier, the Brandenburg Concertos and no fewer than three recordings of the Goldberg Variations.
On this album, recorded in 2020 and 2021 on a modern Titus Crijnen copy of a Ruckers model, Pieter-Jan Belder turns to the overlooked corners of Bach’s early writing for the harpsichord. These include standalone fugues, fantasias and suites based on themes by contemporary composers such as Reincken and Albinoni. Nevertheless, there is no sense of routine or technical exercise about them. The pieces here are almost all extrovert, playing to the strengths of the young Bach as a performer as well as composer, and already demonstrating that confidence which would go on to mark his mature compositions. An appreciation of French flair is discernible in the F minor Suite, BWV 823 and elsewhere, but the dominant influence is the keyboard writing of Girolamo Frescobaldi, whose toccatas and canzonas were studied by Bach from an early age.
The better-known pieces here include the sober and songful Aria variata, BWV 989 with its courtly French theme, and the E-flat Prelude, Fugue and Allegro originally written for lute, but which also finds a happy home on the harpsichord. The most famous but also most uncharacteristic piece is the mysterious Capriccio on the departure of a beloved brother which appears to be a work of Bach’s late teenage years, though no definite corroborative proof of its commission or purpose has yet come to light. Rather, it seems unique in Bach’s output as a humorous parody of styles and emotions. © Brilliant Classics
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Pieter-Jan Belder, Artist, MainArtist - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Pieter-Jan Belder, Artist, MainArtist - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Pieter-Jan Belder, Artist, MainArtist - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Pieter-Jan Belder, Artist, MainArtist - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Pieter-Jan Belder, Artist, MainArtist - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Pieter-Jan Belder, Artist, MainArtist - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Pieter-Jan Belder, Artist, MainArtist - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Pieter-Jan Belder, Artist, MainArtist - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Pieter-Jan Belder, Artist, MainArtist - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Pieter-Jan Belder, Artist, MainArtist - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Pieter-Jan Belder, Artist, MainArtist - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Pieter-Jan Belder, Artist, MainArtist - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Pieter-Jan Belder, Artist, MainArtist - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Pieter-Jan Belder, Artist, MainArtist - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Pieter-Jan Belder, Artist, MainArtist - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Pieter-Jan Belder, Artist, MainArtist - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Pieter-Jan Belder, Artist, MainArtist - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher
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Album review
Over a career spanning more than 30 years, the Dutch harpsichordist and conductor Pieter-Jan Belder has become renowned as a Bach interpreter with his surveys in concert and on record of the keyboard and orchestral masterpieces such as The Well-Tempered Clavier, the Brandenburg Concertos and no fewer than three recordings of the Goldberg Variations.
On this album, recorded in 2020 and 2021 on a modern Titus Crijnen copy of a Ruckers model, Pieter-Jan Belder turns to the overlooked corners of Bach’s early writing for the harpsichord. These include standalone fugues, fantasias and suites based on themes by contemporary composers such as Reincken and Albinoni. Nevertheless, there is no sense of routine or technical exercise about them. The pieces here are almost all extrovert, playing to the strengths of the young Bach as a performer as well as composer, and already demonstrating that confidence which would go on to mark his mature compositions. An appreciation of French flair is discernible in the F minor Suite, BWV 823 and elsewhere, but the dominant influence is the keyboard writing of Girolamo Frescobaldi, whose toccatas and canzonas were studied by Bach from an early age.
The better-known pieces here include the sober and songful Aria variata, BWV 989 with its courtly French theme, and the E-flat Prelude, Fugue and Allegro originally written for lute, but which also finds a happy home on the harpsichord. The most famous but also most uncharacteristic piece is the mysterious Capriccio on the departure of a beloved brother which appears to be a work of Bach’s late teenage years, though no definite corroborative proof of its commission or purpose has yet come to light. Rather, it seems unique in Bach’s output as a humorous parody of styles and emotions. © Brilliant Classics
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 67 track(s)
- Total length: 03:21:38
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Pieter-Jan Belder
- Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
- Label: Brilliant Classics
- Genre: Classical
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