Js Bach/ Fred Thomas: Three Or One

his own playing at times has something of the velvety fastidiousness of Víkingur Ólafsson…If, occasionally, the results are a little overwrought (‘Liebster Jesu wir sind hier’ BWV 633 is rather... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2021, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Release Date: 22nd Oct 2021
Catalogue No: 4856141
Label: ECM

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Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV649 'Ach bleib’ bei uns, Herr Jesu Christ'

Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV601 'Herr Christ, der ein'ge Gottessohn'

Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV639 'Ich ruf' zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ'

Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV637 'Durch Adam's Fall ist ganz verderbt'

Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV721 'Erbarm' dich mein, o Herre Gott'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV196 'Der Herr denket an uns' (Wedding Cantata): Sinfonia

Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV643 'Alle Menschen müssen sterben'

Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV605 'Der Tag, der ist so freudenreich'

Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV619 'Christe, du Lamm Gottes'

Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV633 'Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV105 'Herr, gehe nicht ins Gericht mit deinem Knecht': Kann ich nur Jesum mir zum Freunde machen

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV202 'Weichet Nur, betrübte Schatten' (Wedding Cantata): Sehet in Zufriedenheit tausend helle Wohlfahrtstage

Excerpt, Bach, J S: Cantata BWV165 'O heiliges Geist- und Wasserbad'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV33 'Allein zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ': Wie fürchtsam wankten meine Schritte

Bach, J S: Partita "Wenn wir in hoechsten Noeten sein" BWV Anhang II 78

Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV723 'Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ'

Bach, J S: Chorale Partita BWV767 'O Gott, du frommer Gott'

Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV618 'O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig'

Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV610 'Jesu, meine Freude'

Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV711 'Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr'

Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV608 'In dulci jubilo'

Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV600 'Gott, durch deine Guete'

Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV648 'Meine Seele erhebt den Herren'

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Fred Thomas is an ECM artist who studied at the Royal Academy of Music and is one of London's most sought after multi-instrumentalists and composer/arranger/producers. Here is Johann Sebastian Bach in transfigured light: with organ chorale preludes, vocal cantata movements and orchestral sinfonias 24 pieces in all transcribed for trio and solo piano by Fred Thomas, and threaded into a compelling new sequence by Manfred Eicher.

On Three Or One, Bach's idiom is respectfully explored by three innovative players, a process Thomas describes as "quietly joyful," and the trio pieces, primarily drawn from Bach's Orgelbuchlein, acquire a fresh character in the hands of Kazakh violinist Aisha Orazbayeva and British cellist Lucy Railton, musicians more often associated with contemporary composition's cutting edge.

Fred Thomas, who makes his ECM New Series debut here, has always worked across contexts and genres, and considers the trio's wide-ranging experience:

"an incitement to creativity. Bach often re-used his own material and it is no surprise it came out differently each time. With his imaginative, technical and improvisatory powers, do we really believe that Bach would play the same thing the same way twice?"

It's a good question, and the key to the approach taken on Three Or One.

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December 2021

his own playing at times has something of the velvety fastidiousness of Víkingur Ólafsson…If, occasionally, the results are a little overwrought (‘Liebster Jesu wir sind hier’ BWV 633 is rather indulgently ponderous), Thomas has nonetheless consolidated his credentials as an illuminating if idiosyncratic Bachian.

November 2021

Let this programme sink in over several hearings and the music will quietly insinuate itself into your next playlist.

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