Rinaldo Alessandrini Bach Klavierwerke

Believe Recordings

£13.73

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: OP30581
Barcode: 0709861305810
Release Date: 19th March 2021
Genre: Classical

 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.

Tracklisting:
Praeludium in A minor bwv 931
Inventio in A minor bwv 784
Sinfonia in A minor bwv 799
Praeludium in A minor bwv 865
Das wohltemperierte Klavier I
Fuge in A minor bwv 865
Das wohltemperierte Klavier I
Praeludium in A minor bwv 889
Das wohltemperierte Klavier II
Fuge in A minor bwv 889
Das wohltemperierte Klavier II
Fantasia in A minor bwv 904
Fuga in A minor bwv 904
Praeludium in D minor bwv 940
Inventio in D minor bwv 775
Sinfonia in D minor bwv 790
Praeludium in D minor bwv 851
Das wohltemperierte Klavier I
Fuge in D minor bwv 851
Das wohltemperierte Klavier I
Praeludium in D minor bwv 875
Das wohltemperierte Klavier II
Fuge in D minor bwv 875
Das wohltemperierte Klavier II
Sonata per il cembalo solo in D minor
bwv 964 (from Sonata for solo violin
in A minor bwv 1003)
Adagio
Thema allegro
Andante
Allegro
Praeludium in C minor bwv 934
Inventio in C minor bwv 773
Sinfonia in C minor bwv 788
Praeludium in C minor bwv 847
Das wohltemperierte Klavier I
Fuge in C minor bwv 847
Das wohltemperierte Klavier I
Praeludium in C minor bwv 871
Das wohltemperierte Klavier II
Fuge in C minor bwv 871
Das wohltemperierte Klavier II
Fantasia in C minor bwv 906
Ricercar a tre voci in C minor
bwv 1079
Musicalisches Opfer