Bach minimaliste La Tempête & Simon-Pierre Bestion

• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750): Harpsichord Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, BWV 1052:
• 1 Bach: Harpsichord Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, BWV 1052: I. Allegro 06:57
• Henryk Mikołaj Górecki (1933 - 2010): Harpsichord Concerto, Op. 40:
• 2 Górecki: Harpsichord Concerto, Op. 40: I. Allegro molto 05:03
• Knut Nystedt (1915 - 2014): Immortal Bach, Op. 153 (Arr. for String Ensemble by Simon-Pierre Bestion):
• 3 Nystedt: Immortal Bach, Op. 153 (Arr. for String Ensemble by Simon-Pierre Bestion) 03:32
• John Adams (1735 - 1826): Shaker Loops:
• 4 Adams: Shaker Loops: I. Shaking and Trembling 08:46
• Jehan Alain (1911 - 1940): Litanies, JA 119 (Arr. for Harpsichord and String Ensemble by Simon-Pierre Bestion):
• 5 Alain: Litanies, JA 119 (Arr. for Harpsichord and String Ensemble by Simon-Pierre Bestion) 05:21
• John Adams: Shaker Loops:
• 6 Adams: Shaker Loops: II. Hymning Slews 06:50
• Johann Sebastian Bach: Passacaglia in C Minor, BWV 582 (Arr. for Harpsichord and String Ensemble by Simon-Pierre Bestion):
• 7 Bach: Passacaglia in C Minor, BWV 582 (Arr. for Harpsichord and String Ensemble by Simon-Pierre Bestion) 07:19
• Knut Nystedt: Immortal Bach, Op. 153:
• 8 Nystedt: Immortal Bach, Op. 153 04:25
• Johann Sebastian Bach: Harpsichord Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, BWV 1052:
• 9 Bach: Harpsichord Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, BWV 1052: III. Allegro 08:28
• Henryk Mikołaj Górecki: Harpsichord Concerto, Op. 40:
• 10 Górecki: Harpsichord Concerto, Op. 40: II. Vivace marcatissimo 03:56
• John Adams: Shaker Loops:
• 11 Adams: Shaker Loops: III. Loops and Verses 07:16
• 12 Adams: Shaker Loops: IV. A Final Shaking 04:07
• Johann Sebastian Bach: Vor deinen Thron tret' ich, BWV 668:
• 13 Bach: Vor deinen Thron tret' ich, BWV 668 03:52
• Total Runtime 01:15:52

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J. S. Bach’s Harpsichord Concerto in D minor is the centrepiece of this programme: ‘This music seems absolutely modern to me: a continuous, endlessly developing thread, giving it an almost hypnotic aspect... These adjectives also belong to the vocabulary of today’s music, whether it is “popular”, as in techno, or “art music”, as in the so-called repetitive or minimalist movement’, says Simon-Pierre Bestion. Two hundred and thirty years after Bach, Górecki wrote a harpsichord concerto in the same key, using it ‘as a very rhythmic and extremely stealthy instrument’. John Adams, a leading figure of the American minimalist movement, composed Shaker Loops in 1978: ‘This masterpiece takes on a special interest because we play on instruments with gut strings. That gives the music a very special texture.’ Bach’s Passacaglia (‘a single musical theme heard forty-one times’) and Jehan Alain’s Litanies complete this programme, which brings together the Bestion brothers, with Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas as soloist in the concertos.

Louis-Noel Bestion de Camboulas, harpsichord
La Tempete
Simon-Pierre Bestion, direction

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