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JS Bach: The Well-Tempered Consort II

Phantasm, Laurence Dreyfus

JS Bach: The Well-Tempered Consort II

Awards:

Dreyfus’s transcriptions generate fresh insights into the workings of Bach’s contrapuntal ingenuity and humanity – the latter not least because of the communal nature of the discourse, liberated...

JS Bach: The Well-Tempered Consort II

Phantasm, Laurence Dreyfus

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Dreyfus’s transcriptions generate fresh insights into the workings of Bach’s contrapuntal ingenuity and humanity – the latter not least because of the communal nature of the discourse, liberated...

About

This is the second instalment in Phantasm's series of recordings dedicated to the keyboard music of J. S. Bach. The first was named a Chamber Choice by BBC Music Magazine and Prise de son d exception by Diapason. This new recording explores further riches from both volumes of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier arranged by director Laurence Dreyfus for viol consort. Reimaging Bach's keyboard polyphony as consort music has the dual benefits of expanding Bach's chamber oeuvre whilst also presenting these highly-cherished works as seemingly new, never before heard gems, ripe for discovery. Despite its pedagogical inception Bach's musical imagination imbues the Well-Tempered Clavier with intellectually complex fugues and preludes bursting with dancing melodies. Phantasm offers a wealth of insights into these highly artistic works revealing sonorities and colours that are both dynamically expressive and revelatory.

Contents and tracklist

Prelude No. 16 in G Minor, BWV 885
Track length1:50
Fugue No. 16 in G Minor BWV 885
Track length2:57
Fugue No. 1 in C Major, BWV 870
Track length1:55
Fugue No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 871
Track length2:00
Prelude No. 4 in C-Sharp Minor, BWV 873
Track length3:58
Fugue No. 4 in C-Sharp Minor, BWV 873
Track length2:31
Prelude No. 12 in F Minor, BWV 857
Track length2:15
Fugue No. 12 in F Minor, BWV 857
Track length4:32
Fugue No. 21 in B-Flat Major, BWV 890
Track length2:52
Fugue No. 7 in E-Flat Major, BWV 876
Track length1:35
Fugue No. 17 in A-Flat Major, BWV 862
Track length2:09
Fugue No. 4 in C-Sharp Minor, BWV 849
Track length4:05
Prelude No. 9 in E Major, BWV 878
Track length6:15
Fugue No. 9 in E Major, BWV 878
Track length3:27
Prelude No. 19 in A Major, BWV 888
Track length2:29
Fugue No. 19 in A Major, BWV 888
Track length1:30
Fugue No. 6 in D Minor, BWV 875
Track length2:08
Prelude No. 5 in D Major, BWV 874
Track length4:16
Fugue No. 5 in D Major, BWV 874
Track length1:47

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Awards and reviews

  • Gramophone Magazine
    May 2021
    Editor's Choice

June 2021

Dreyfus’s transcriptions generate fresh insights into the workings of Bach’s contrapuntal ingenuity and humanity – the latter not least because of the communal nature of the discourse, liberated from the controlling fingers of a single performer...With continuo absent, the result sounds simultaneously ‘ancient and modern’...A rarefied pleasure perhaps, but an infinitely illuminating one too.

May 2021

Phantasm have crafted a story with and through Bach’s music. A wholly wondrous album.
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