W. F. Bach - Keyboard Works
Maude Gratton (harpsichord Philippe Humeau, Barbaste 2006 after Christian Zell, Hamburg 1728, clavichord Martin Kather 1999)
…the best single selection of WF Bach's keyboard music I've yet heard… Maude Gratton's instinct for programming reveals great maturity and perception, and her playing is simply captivating,...
W. F. Bach - Keyboard Works
Maude Gratton (harpsichord Philippe Humeau, Barbaste 2006 after Christian Zell, Hamburg 1728, clavichord Martin Kather 1999)
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…the best single selection of WF Bach's keyboard music I've yet heard… Maude Gratton's instinct for programming reveals great maturity and perception, and her playing is simply captivating,...
About
W.F Bach's music enlightens us about an exceptional musician who takes us into a strange passionate world. In the four main genres represented in this recording, a blend of early style and visionary insights, the composer reveals a disturbing inner world and a glimpse of captivating era. Maude Gratton studied with Pierre Hantaï and Louis Robiliard. She performs regularly with Le Concert Français, Collegium Vocale Ghent, Les Basses Réunies, as well as William Christie, Christophe Rousset, and Gérared Lesne. She has recorded Jenkins' works for continuo on Ambronay, J.S. Bach's orchestral suites on Mirare and recently the sonatas for cello and continuo by Vivaldi on Ambroisie. Maude Gratton founded the acclaimed ensemble Il Convito in 2005 with her sister Claire Gratton and Stéphanie Paulet.
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Awards and reviews
Awards Issue 2009
…the best single selection of WF Bach's keyboard music I've yet heard… Maude Gratton's instinct for programming reveals great maturity and perception, and her playing is simply captivating, seeming to follow the composer in his flights of fancy and accesses of rigour with equal deftness. ...this is playing of real purpose and subtlety, and music that demands to be heard.