Works for Harpsichord by JS Bach

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Richard Egarr's programme is an attractive one in which three major solo harpsichord works – the Partita (BWV825), the French Suite (BWV816), and the Italian Concerto (BWV971) – are interspersed... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Catalogue No: 5697002
Label: Warner Classics
Series: Debut
Length: 77 minutes

Bach, J S: Partita No. 1 in B flat major, BWV825

Work length20:51

$7.80

$10.20

Richard Egarr (harpsichord)
Recorded: 1995-09-30
Recording Venue: September 1995, Church of Maria Minor, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Prelude

Track length2:13

$1.30

$1.70

Allemande

Track length4:46

$1.30

$1.70

Corrente

Track length2:53

$1.30

$1.70

Sarabande

Track length5:00

$1.30

$1.70

Menuets I & II

Track length3:23

$1.30

$1.70

Gigue

Track length2:36

$1.30

$1.70

Bach, J S: 6 Small Preludes from Johann Peter Kellner' s Collection

Work length5:53

$7.80

$10.20

Richard Egarr (harpsichord)
Recorded: 1995-09-30
Recording Venue: September 1995, Church of Maria Minor, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Prelude in C Major, BWV 939

Track length0:40

$1.30

$1.70

Prelude in D minor, BWV 940

Track length0:35

$1.30

$1.70

Prelude in E minor, BWV 941

Track length0:42

$1.30

$1.70

Prelude in A minor, BWV 942

Track length0:46

$1.30

$1.70

Prelude in C Major, BWV 943

Track length1:45

$1.30

$1.70

Prelude in C minor "pour la lute", BWV 999

Track length1:25

$1.30

$1.70

Bach, J S: 'Fuga A Tre' in C major, BWV 953 from 'Clavier-Buchlein fur Wilhelm Friedemann Bach'

Work length1:59

$1.30

$1.70

Richard Egarr (harpsichord)
Recorded: 1995-09-30
Recording Venue: September 1995, Church of Maria Minor, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Bach, J S: 3 Minuets from "Clavier-Buchlein fur Wilhelm Friedemann Bach"

Work length4:14

$3.90

$5.10

Richard Egarr (harpsichord)
Recorded: 1995-09-30
Recording Venue: September 1995, Church of Maria Minor, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Minuet I in G Major, BWV 841

Track length1:20

$1.30

$1.70

Minuet II in G minor, BWV 842

Track length0:53

$1.30

$1.70

Minuet III in G Major, BWV 843

Track length2:01

$1.30

$1.70

Bach, J S: French Suite No. 5 in G major, BWV816

Work length18:22

$9.10

$11.90

Richard Egarr (harpsichord)
Recorded: 1995-09-30
Recording Venue: September 1995, Church of Maria Minor, Utrecht

Allemande

Track length3:59

$1.30

$1.70

Courante

Track length1:52

$1.30

$1.70

Sarabande

Track length3:50

$1.30

$1.70

Gavotte

Track length1:09

$1.30

$1.70

Bourrée

Track length1:24

$1.30

$1.70

Loure

Track length2:20

$1.30

$1.70

Gigue

Track length3:48

$1.30

$1.70

Bach, J S: 6 Preludes from Clavier-Buchlein fur Wilhelm Friedemann Bach

Work length7:37

$7.80

$10.20

Richard Egarr (harpsichord)
Recorded: 1995-09-30
Recording Venue: September 1995, Church of Maria Minor, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Prelude in C Major, BWV 924

Track length1:09

$1.30

$1.70

Prelude in D Major, BWV 925

Track length0:54

$1.30

$1.70

Prelude in D minor, BWV 926

Track length1:04

$1.30

$1.70

Prelude in F Major, BWV 927

Track length0:39

$1.30

$1.70

Prelude in G minor, BWV 930

Track length2:27

$1.30

$1.70

Prelude in F Major, BWV 928

Track length1:24

$1.30

$1.70

Bach, J S: Fughetta in C minor, BWV961

Work length1:40

$1.30

$1.70

Richard Egarr (harpsichord)
Recorded: 1995-09-30
Recording Venue: September 1995, Church of Maria Minor, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Bach, J S: 2 Minuets from "Clavierbuchlein fur Anna Magdalena Bach" [1725], BWV Anh. 114 - 5: Minuet I in G Major / Minuet II in G minor

Work length4:21

$1.30

$1.70

Richard Egarr (harpsichord)
Recorded: 1995-09-30
Recording Venue: September 1995, Church of Maria Minor, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Bach, J S: Italian Concerto, BWV971

Work length12:31

$3.90

$5.10

Richard Egarr (harpsichord)
Recorded: 1995-09-30
Recording Venue: September 1995, Church of Maria Minor, Utrecht

I. [Allegro]

Track length4:16

$1.30

$1.70

II. Andante

Track length4:27

$1.30

$1.70

III. Presto

Track length3:48

$1.30

$1.70

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2010

Richard Egarr's programme is an attractive one in which three major solo harpsichord works – the Partita (BWV825), the French Suite (BWV816), and the Italian Concerto (BWV971) – are interspersed with Preludes, Minuets and two Fugues from the Kellner Collection, the Clavier-Büchlein for Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, 'the son I love, the one who fills me with joy', and the Notenbuch for Bach's second wife, Anna Magdalena. The character of Egarr's instrument, a copy by Joel Katzman of a 1638 Ruckers, has been effectively recorded, capturing its warm timbre in an intimate, domesticsounding ambience.
Egarr's B flat Partita is an unhurried affair, reflective in its Prelude and Allemande and rhythmically supple. Some readers may not at once respond to the extent to which he leans on notes, thereby breaking up that strict regularity of pulse that used to be the order of the day.
His articulation and rhythmic flexibility are both illuminating and communicative. The music breathes, and with each breath comes a natural pause in the declamation allowing for rhetorical gesture and a feeling for scansion.
Just occasionally in the Sarabande phrases are a little too clipped and skimped over, but such instances, both here and in the French Suite, are both few and far between. Each of the little Preludes and Minuets is lovingly shaped and played with a sense of affection for, and understanding of, the music's poetry. In short this is an outstanding disc, both for Egarr's technically accomplished playing and for his delicacy of feeling.

Works for Harpsichord by JS Bach

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