Johann Sebastian Bach: The Well-tempered Consort I

In this recording Phantasm make no excuses for arranging some of Bach's remarkable keyboard music for a consort of viols. Led by director Laurence Dreyfus they go on a conscious mission to uncover the hidden riches concealed behind the more neutral resources of the harpsichord and organ so as to liberate the fascinating characters lurking in the shadows and behind the scenes within Bach's individual polyphonic lines. In the process of fugal confrontation among three to six musicians, they come face to face with the astounding psychological insights of Bach's most radical inventions. Drawn chiefly from the two books of the 'Well-Tempered Clavier', the 'Musical Offering' and the 'Clavier-Übung III', the repertoire chosen for this recording has an uncanny way of forging Bach's links with the old English traditions of the 'Fantasy' and 'In nomine' as much as leaping forward into a chromatic twelve-tone world where the raw emotions of expressionist modernism become not only audible but adventurously relevant.

1: Ricercar a 3
2: Sinfonia No. 9, BWV795
3: An Wasserflüssen Babylon, BWV653b
4: Prelude No. 19, BWV864
5: Fugue No. 19, BWV864
6: Fugue
7: Fugue No. 17, BWV886
8: Prelude No. 22, BWV867
9: Fugue No. 22, BWV867
10: Fugue No. 14, BWV859
11: Prelude No. 24, BWV869
12: Fugue No. 24, BWV869
13: Fugue No. 9, BWV854
14: Aus Tiefer Not, BWV686
15: Prelude No. 22, BWV891
16: Fugue No. 22, BWV891
17: Vater Unser Im Himmelreich, BWV737
18: Fugue, BWV552
19: Kyrie, Gott Heiliger Geist, BWV671
20: Ricercar a 6

Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

Number of Discs: 1

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