Pierre Hantaï - Johann Sebastian Bach: Œuvres pour clavecin / Works for harpsichord (2004)

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Pierre Hantaï - Johann Sebastian Bach: Fantaisie chromatique et fugue, Suite "Aufs Lautenwerk", Toccatas, Sonate & Préludes et Fugues (2004)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 908 Mb | Total time: 72:17+63:46 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Virgin Veritas ‎‎| 5 62473 2 | Recorded: 1997

This double-album budget set collects Bach recordings made by French harpsichordist Pierre Hantaï in 1997 and 1998, about halfway between his two celebrated versions of the Goldberg Variations, BWV 988. If you like the engineering – close-up and intense, but not oversaturated with ambient noise – these are excellent picks for some of Bach's lesser-known early keyboard pieces. The star attraction is very strong as well: the extreme Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue, BWV 903, comes out spectacularly on Hantaï's harpsichord, a copy by Dutch builder Joel Katzman of a Flemish Ruckers instrument of the 17th century. From the opening ascending run, this is a vivid, effortlessly virtuosic reading that injects the work with considerable tension but always stops just short of individual mannerism. Hantaï's style has some of the straightforward muscularity of that of his teacher, Gustav Leonhardt, but he takes more chances with the rhythm and attractively sets off the halves of the various small prelude-fugue pairs. The Suite in E minor, BWV 996, originally written for an obsolete keyboard instrument called the Lautenwerk offers a good example of Hantaï's exciting, high-momentum style. Sample the Bourrée (track 5): Hantaï isn't overly concerned with the nature of the original dance, instead sweeping through Bach's long internal lines in a commanding reading. At a budget price, this is hard to beat for any basic Bach library.

Performer:
Pierre Hantaï, harpsichord

Tracklist:
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
CD1:
Suite for lute in E minor, BWV 996 (BC L166)
01. Praeludio (Passagio - Presto)
02. Allemande
03. Courante
04. Sarabande
05. Bourrée
06. Gigue
07. Prelude for keyboard in D major (Six Little Preludes No. 4), BWV 936 (BC L67)
Toccata for keyboard in D minor, BWV 913 (BC L144)
08. [Introduction]
09. [Adagio]
10. Thema
11. [Adagio]
12. Allegro
Toccata for keyboard in E minor, BWV 914 (BC L145, 163)
13. [Introduction]
14. Un poco allegro
15. Adagio
16. Fuga: Allegro
17. Fantasia for keyboard in G minor, BWV 917 (BC L140)
Toccata for keyboard in G minor, BWV 915 (BC L148)
18. [Presto] - Adagio
19. Allegro - Adagio
20. Fuga
Sonata arranged for keyboard in D minor (after BWV 1003, possibly by J.G. Müthel), BWV 964 (BC L184)
21. Adagio
22. Thema: Allegro
23. Andante
24. Allegro
CD2:
01. Toccata for keyboard in D major, BWV 912 (BC L143)
Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue, for keyboard in D minor, BWV 903 (BC L34)
02. Fantaisie
03. Récitatif
04. Fugue
05. Fantasia and Fugue, for keyboard in A minor, BWV 944 (BC L135)
Prelude and Fugue, for keyboard in A minor, BWV 894 (BC L130)
06. Prelude in A minor, BWV. 894
07. Fugue in A minor, BWV. 894
08. Prelude for lute in C minor, BWV 999 (BC L171)
09. Prelude for keyboard in B minor (by Wilhelm Hieronymous Pachelbel, not JSB), BWV 923 (BC L131)
10. Fugue on a theme by Albinoni, for keyboard in B minor, BWV 951 (BC L162)
11. Toccata for keyboard in C minor, BWV 911 (BC L142)


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