Bach: Klavierwerke

The playing is elegantly poised with remarkable expressive range. A prime example is Alessandrini’s performance of the Prelude and Fugue in A minor from the first book of the Well-Tempered Clavier:... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 26th Feb 2021
Catalogue No: OP30581
Label: Naive

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June 2021

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Bach, J S: Prelude in A minor, BWV931

Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord)

Bach, J S: Two-part Invention No. 13 in A minor, BWV784

Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord)

Bach, J S: Three-part Invention (Sinfonia) No. 13 in A minor, BWV799

Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord)

Bach, J S: Prelude & Fugue Book 1 No. 20 in A minor, BWV865

Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord)

Bach, J S: Prelude & Fugue Book 2 No. 20, BWV889

Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord)

Bach, J S: Fantasia & Fugue in A minor, BWV904

Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord)

Bach, J S: Prelude in D minor, BWV940

Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord)

Bach, J S: Two-part Invention No. 4 in D minor, BWV775

Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord)

Bach, J S: Three-part Invention (Sinfonia) No. 4 in D minor, BWV790

Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord)

Bach, J S: Prelude & Fugue Book 1 No. 6 in D minor, BWV851

Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord)

Bach, J S: Prelude & Fugue Book 2 No. 6 in D minor, BWV875

Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord)

Bach, J S: Keyboard Sonata in D Minor, BWV964

Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord)

Bach, J S: Prelude in C minor, BWV934

Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord)

Bach, J S: Two-part Invention No. 2 in C minor, BWV773

Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord)

Bach, J S: Three-part Invention (Sinfonia) No. 2 in C minor, BWV788

Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord)

Bach, J S: Prelude & Fugue Book 1 No. 2 in C minor, BWV847

Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord)

Bach, J S: Prelude & Fugue Book 2 No. 2 in C minor, BWV871

Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord)

Bach, J S: Fantasia in C minor, BWV906

Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord)

Bach, J S: Musical Offering, BWV1079: Ricercar a 3

Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord)

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Rinaldo Alessandrini usually records with his ensemble Concerto Italiano: his solo harpsichord recital discs are far less frequent and all the more cherished for their rarity value. Here Bach has a special place, as in his previous releases A la manera italiana and Præludien & Fugen.

This third all-Bach recital brings together around thirty short pieces from among the composer’s two hundred or so keyboard works, grouping them according to their kinship of key - like a mirror in three sections reflecting three different tonalities.

This recital’s route lets us wander around an extended archive of works from Bach’s preludes, fugues, sinfonias, inventions, fantasies, ricercar and the Sonata for solo violin BWV 1003 - but with their chronology entirely effaced, their order recomposed by the soloist.

As Esteban Hernández Castello explains in the accompanying booklet: “This enables us to range through the whole gamut of musical languages the composer employed, from the simplest to the most elaborate, including - and why not - pieces whose attribution is still uncertain.”

In Rinaldo Alessandrini’s playing we again encounter the unpretentious elegance that is his hallmark, his attention to detail and nuance and the radiant thoughtfulness he bestows on the polyphony - qualities that have been refined over the years by his work with Concerto Italiano and his intensive cultivation of the vocal repertoire

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June 2021

The playing is elegantly poised with remarkable expressive range. A prime example is Alessandrini’s performance of the Prelude and Fugue in A minor from the first book of the Well-Tempered Clavier: the Prelude has genuine humour, while in the long succeeding Fugue the structure is beautifully articulated with no hint of didacticism...Altogether this recording shows off much of what is best about contemporary harpsichord playing.

May 2021

Alessandrini is a solid Bach-player in the positive sense of having a good understanding of his subject and the strength of technique and musicality to realise it.

Bach: Klavierwerke

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