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Special offer. JS Bach: Complete Keyboard Works Vol. 1

The Young Heir

Benjamin Alard (organ & harpsichord)

JS Bach: Complete Keyboard Works Vol. 1
The magnificent Silbermann organ in St Aurélie’s Strasbourg, and a ravishingly-toned hybrid harpsichord after Ruckers and Duloken, furnish exemplary tools for the job, and Alard’s playing bears...

BBC Music Magazine, August 20184 out of 5 stars

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Special offer. JS Bach: Complete Keyboard Works Vol. 1

The Young Heir

Benjamin Alard (organ & harpsichord)

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The magnificent Silbermann organ in St Aurélie’s Strasbourg, and a ravishingly-toned hybrid harpsichord after Ruckers and Duloken, furnish exemplary tools for the job, and Alard’s playing bears...

BBC Music Magazine, August 20184 out of 5 stars

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Bach’s youth was a vast field of observation. From the years of apprenticeship in Ohrdruf, where his precocious artistic sensibility was dazzlingly demonstrated, to his first major post as organist at Arnstadt, Bach constantly enriched his musical culture, underpinned by a strong family tradition and driven by iconic respect for the old masters, crucial affinities and unfailing curiosity. As the prelude to a complete recording of a new kind, the eloquence and vigilant intelligence of the admirable Benjamin Alard’s playing are the ideal medium to reveal the technical mastery of Bach’s early keyboard works and convey the essence of this young composer’s musical discourse at a time when he was already measuring himself against the yardstick of predecessors and contemporaries alike.

Contents and tracklist

Bach, J M I: Nun Komm, der heiden Heiland
Work length1:25
Bach, J S: Fantasia in C major, BWV570
Work length2:36
Bach, J S: Fuga sopra 'Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her', BWV700
Work length3:22
Frescobaldi: Bergamasca, F12.46
Work length5:26
Bach, J C'ph: Prelude and Fugue in E-Flat Major
Work length5:05
Kuhnau: Suonata quarta 'Hiskia agonizzante e risanato'
Work length7:03
Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV1091 'Das alte Jahr vergangen ist'
Work length2:35
Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV1113 'Ich hab mein Sach Gott heimgestellt'
Work length2:24
Böhm, G: Choral Prelude: Vater unser in Himmelreich
Work length4:54
Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV1112 'Christus, der ist mein Leben'
Work length1:58
Bach, J S: Fugue on a theme by Tomaso Albinoni in C Major, BWV 946
Work length3:08
Bach, J S: Fugue in A major, BWV949
Work length4:37
Bach, J S: Wie nach eine Wasserquelle, BWV 1119
Work length2:16
Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV1097 'Ehre sei dir, Christe, der du leidest Not'
Work length2:20
Bach, J S: Gott, durch deine Güte, BWV 724: Choral
Work length1:58
Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV1094 'O Jesu, wie ist dein Gestalt'
Work length3:00
Froberger: Canzona
Work length3:25
Pachelbel: An Wasserflüssen Babylon
Work length5:27
Marchand, L: Suite in D minor (Excerpts): Prélude - Sarabande - Chaconne
Work length10:04
Bach, J S: Prelude & Fugue in A minor, BWV551
Work length5:52
Grigny: Point d'orgue sur les grands jeux
Work length3:09
Bach, J S: Prelude & Fugue in D minor BWV549a
Work length5:54
Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV741 'Ach Gott vom Himmel sieh darein'
Work length4:30
Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV1105 'Jesu, meine Freude'
Work length3:10
Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV1092 'Herr Gott, nun schleuss den Himmel auf'
Work length2:16
Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV1118 'Werde munter, mein Gemüte'
Work length2:33
Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV957 'Machs mit mir, Gott, nach deiner Güt'
Work length2:12
Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV1115 'Herzlich lieb hab ich dich, o Herr'
Work length4:52
Bach, J S: In Honorem Johann Christoph Bachii Ohrdrufiensis in E Major, BWV 993
Work length7:45
Bach, J S: Sonata in A Minor, BWV 967
Work length3:48
Bach, J S: Fugue in A minor, BWV947
Work length3:34
Bach, J S: Prelude & Fugue in A major, BWV896
Work length3:32
Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV1114 'Herr Jesu Christ, du höchstes Gut'
Work length4:34
Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV1117 'Alle Menschen müssen sterben'
Work length2:40
Bach, J S: Partite diverse Sopra il Chorale Ach, was soll ich Sünder machenp. di J: S: Bach, BWV 770
Work length14:33
Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV1116 'Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan'
Work length2:36
Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV1099 'Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir'
Work length4:01
Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV1111 'Nun lasst uns den Leib begraben'
Work length2:59
Bach, J S: Prelude & Fugue in C major, BWV531
Work length7:09
Bach, J S: Fantasia in C minor, BWV1121
Work length3:21
Bach, J S: Capriccio sopra la lontananza del suo fratello dilettissimo, BWV992
Work length10:15
Bach, J S: Prelude and Partita del tuono terzo in F Major, BWV 833: Præludium - Allemande - Courante - Sarabande & double (allegro) - Aria
Work length7:25
Bach, J S: Suite in A Major, BWV 832: Allemande - Air pour les trompettes - Sarabande - Bourrée - Gigue
Work length6:38
Bach, J S: Aria Variata in A minor, BWV989 ‘alla Maniera Italiana'
Work length9:55
Bach, J S: Prelude & Fugue in G minor, BWV535a
Work length6:20
Bach, J S: Keyboard Sonata in D major, BWV963
Work length10:04
Bach, J S: Fugue on a theme by Tomaso Albinoni in A Major, BWV 950
Work length5:25
Excerpt,Bach, J S: Fantasia (Concerto) in G major, BWV571
Work length7:43
Bach, J S: Prelude & Fugue in E minor, BWV533
Work length4:37
Bach, J S: Fantasia (and Imitatio) in B Minor, BWV 563
Work length4:24
Bach, J S: Fugue in B Minor, BWV 951a (on a theme by Tomaso Albinoni)
Work length6:44

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Awards and reviews

August 2018

The magnificent Silbermann organ in St Aurélie’s Strasbourg, and a ravishingly-toned hybrid harpsichord after Ruckers and Duloken, furnish exemplary tools for the job, and Alard’s playing bears down on the music with exacting clarity and focus…Alard’s tantalising journey is off to an auspicious start.
4 out of 5 stars

June 2018

Alard is equally accomplished on both the organ and the harpsichord and moves from one to the other with facility…Alard’s playing is a delight, clean and sensible, with striking agogic expressive power…This is a project to watch with anticipation.
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