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JS Bach: The French Suites
Peter Hill (piano)
Peter Hill never underestimates [the] challenge, and there's a confiding wisdom sustaining his latest Bachian foray. Trademark unshowy integrity, too, articulated through a silky translucent...
JS Bach: The French Suites
Peter Hill (piano)
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Peter Hill never underestimates [the] challenge, and there's a confiding wisdom sustaining his latest Bachian foray. Trademark unshowy integrity, too, articulated through a silky translucent...
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The French Suites have a special place among Bach’s keyboard works. Besides containing music as profound and poetic as any Bach wrote, their textures have a transparency and sparkle that reflects a move towards the galant style fashionable among Bach’s contemporaries. In this, the third instalment of Peter Hill’s acclaimed Bach series, Hill has chosen to follow the suites with his own completion of Mozart’s Suite in C, K399. With Bach and Handel as his models, this work epitomises Mozart’s fascination with Baroque music. Hill’s celebrated return to the studio with Delphian four years ago continues to reap rich artistic rewards, with a ‘Diapason d’Or’ and a recent Gramophone Award nomination for his premiere recording of Messiaen’s rediscovered La Fauvette passerinette; here in Bach, too, his abundant energy and passion are deeply informed by a lifetime of scholarship.
Contents and tracklist
- Peter Hill (piano)
- Recorded: 05-08 July 2015
- Recording Venue: University Concert Hall, Cardiff University, United Kingdom
- Peter Hill (piano)
- Recorded: 05-08 July 2015
- Recording Venue: University Concert Hall, Cardiff University, United Kingdom
- Peter Hill (piano)
- Recorded: 05-08 July 2015
- Recording Venue: University Concert Hall, Cardiff University, United Kingdom
- Peter Hill (piano)
- Recorded: 05-08 July 2015
- Recording Venue: University Concert Hall, Cardiff University, United Kingdom
- Peter Hill (piano)
- Recorded: 05-08 July 2015
- Recording Venue: University Concert Hall, Cardiff University, United Kingdom
- Peter Hill (piano)
- Recorded: 05-08 July 2015
- Recording Venue: University Concert Hall, Cardiff University, United Kingdom
- Peter Hill (piano)
- Recorded: 05-08 July 2015
- Recording Venue: University Concert Hall, Cardiff University, United Kingdom
- Peter Hill (piano)
- Recorded: 05-08 July 2015
- Recording Venue: University Concert Hall, Cardiff University, United Kingdom
Awards and reviews
February 2016
Peter Hill never underestimates [the] challenge, and there's a confiding wisdom sustaining his latest Bachian foray. Trademark unshowy integrity, too, articulated through a silky translucent tone and captured in an agreeably intimate recording