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W. F. Bach - Keyboard Works

Maude Gratton (harpsichord Philippe Humeau, Barbaste 2006 after Christian Zell, Hamburg 1728, clavichord Martin Kather 1999)

W. F. Bach - Keyboard Works
…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.

Contents and tracklist

Polonaise VII in E-Dur
Track length3:16
Polonaise VIII in e-moll
Track length3:59
8 Fugues sans pédale, F 3: Fuga III in d-moll
Track length1:10
I. Andantino - Allegro di molto
Track length3:19
II. Lamento
Track length4:25
III. Presto
Track length3:21
I. Fugue en Do Majeur
Track length1:33
II. Fugue en C Mineur
Track length2:12
Polonaise I in C-Dur
Track length3:52
I. Un poco allegro
Track length4:35
II. Adagio
Track length5:22
III. Vivace
Track length6:48
Polonaise XI in G-Dur
Track length3:36
VI. Fugue en Mi Mineur
Track length3:04

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.
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