J.S. Bach: 7 Toccatas BWV 910-916

Pieter-Jan Belder’s reputation in Bach is securely established, with albums of all the major keyboard works to his credit. ‘You can’t really go wrong with this set’ of The Well-Tempered Clavier (BC93892) according to Fanfare magazine, who
also praised Belder’s ongoing Brilliant Classics to record the complete Fitzwilliam Madrigal Book: ‘His playing is both skilful and nicely detailed. Each line is clear and unambiguous, so that the inner workings of the often complex works shines forth. In my opinion, this (and its companion volumes) will turn out to be the model against which all other recordings of the Fitzwilliam will be matched.’

Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Artists: Pieter-Jan Belder (harpsichord)
The term toccata stems from the early Baroque. In the hands of Girolamo Frescobaldi and Johann Jacob Froberger, it signified an extended piece that consisted of several contrapuntal sections that
were headed by a brilliantly figured introduction, full of virtuoso flourishes.
The primary aim of the toccata in the hands of Bach’s forebears such as Schmelzer and Biber was to dazzle and astonish listeners.

This was the tradition that the youthful Bach inherited and embellished in his unique way. All the toccatas on this album probably date from the composer’s period in service to the ducal court at Weimar, in the first decade of the 18th century.

Composed while still in his twenties, they are young man’s music, designed
both to impress and delight his listeners, both by the facility of his invention and
no less by the virtuosity of his performance. BWV910 is built to an especially grand design of two contrasting fugues, the second modelled on a refined French chaconne which recalls some of the composer’s earliest masterpieces such as the C minor Passacaglia for organ and the Cantata BWV12, Weinen,
Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, the ground bass of which is almost identical to the fugue subject.

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Tracklist:

00:00:00 Johann Sebastian Bach: Toccata in F-Sharp Minor, BWV 910
00:10:43 Johann Sebastian Bach: Toccata in C Minor, BWV 911
00:21:01 Johann Sebastian Bach: Toccata in D Major, BWV 912
00:32:07 Johann Sebastian Bach: Toccata in D Minor, BWV 913
00:45:31 Johann Sebastian Bach: Toccata in E Minor, BWV 914
00:52:50 Johann Sebastian Bach: Toccata in G Minor BWV 915
01:01:39 Johann Sebastian Bach: Toccata in G Major, BWV 916


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