J.S. Bach: Pieces for Harpsichord / Belder

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Label
Brilliant Classics
Release Date
October 28, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Johann Sebastian Bach
    • PERFORMER
      Pieter-Jan Belder
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 28, 2022
    • UPC
      5028421960654
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI96065
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      3
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Fantasia in A Minor, BWV 922

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    2. I. Overture

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    3. II. Entree

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    4. III. Menuet - IV. Trio

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    5. V. Bourree

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    6. VI. Gigue

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    7. I. Sonata

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    8. II. Adagio

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    9. III. Fugue

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    10. IV. Adagio

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    11. V. Fugue, "Thema all'imitatio Gallina Cuccu"

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    12. Fugue in D Minor, BWV 948

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    13. I. Prelude

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    14. II. Sarabande en Rondo

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    15. III. Gigue

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    16. Prelude in B Minor, BWV 923

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    17. Fugue in B Minor on a theme by Albinoni, BWV 951

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    18. I. Prelude: Andante

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    19. II. Allemande

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    20. III. Courante

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    21. IV. Sarabande - V. Double: Allegro

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    22. VI. Air: Allegro

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    23. Prelude

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    24. Fugue

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    25. Capriccio in E Major, BWV 993

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    26. I. Arioso: Adagio

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    27. II. —

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    28. III. Adagiosissimo

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    29. IV. —

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    30. V. Aria di Postiglione: Allegro poco

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    31. VI. Fugue all'imitatione di Posta

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    32. I. Allemande

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    33. II. Air pour les Trompettes

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    34. III. Sarabande

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    35. IV. Bourree

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    36. V. Gigue

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    37. Fugue in C Major, BWV 946

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    38. Fantasia

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    39. Fugue

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    40. Fugue in A Major on a theme by Albinoni, BWV 950

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    41. Prelude in C Minor, BWV 921

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    42. Fantasia in C Minor, BWV 1121

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    43. Keyboard Sonata in A Minor, BWV 967

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    44. Fantasia in G Minor, BWV 917, "Fantasia duobus subjectis"

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    45. Fugue in A Minor, BWV 947

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    46. Canzona in D Minor, BWV 588

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    47. Fugue in A Major, BWV 949

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    48. French Suite No. 4 in E-Flat Major, BWV 815a (variante): I. Prelude

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    49. Fugue in B-Flat Major, BWV 955

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    50. Aria variata in A Minor, BWV 989

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    51. I. Adagio

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    52. II. Fuga: Allegro

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    53. III. Adagio

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    54. IV. Presto

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    55. V. Allemande

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    56. VI. Courante

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    57. VII. Sarabande

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    58. VIII. Gigue

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    59. Fugue in B-Flat Major, BWV 954

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    60. I. Praeludium

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    61. II. Fuga

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    62. III. Adagio

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    63. III. [Allegro]

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    64. IV. Allemande

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    65. Prelude

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    66. Fugue

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    67. Allegro

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder


Over a career spanning more than 30 years, the Dutch harpsichordist and conductor Pieter-Jan Belder has become renowned as a Bach interpreter with his surveys in concert and on record of the keyboard and orchestral masterpieces such as The Well-Tempered Clavier, the Brandenburg Concertos and no fewer than three recordings of the Goldberg Variations. On this new album, recorded in 2020 and 2021 on a modern Titus Crijnen copy of a Ruckers model, Pieter-Jan Belder turns to the overlooked corners of Bach’s early writing for the harpsichord. These include standalone fugues, fantasias and suites based on themes by contemporary composers such as Reincken and Albinoni. Nevertheless, there is no sense of routine or technical exercise about them. The pieces here are almost all extrovert, playing to the strengths of the young Bach as a performer as well as composer, and already demonstrating that confidence which would go on to mark his mature compositions.

An appreciation of French flair is discernible in the F minor Suite BWV823 and elsewhere, but the dominant influence is the keyboard writing of Girolamo Frescobaldi, whose toccatas and canzonas were studied by Bach from an early age. The better-known pieces here include the sober and songful Aria variata BWV989 with its courtly French theme, and the E flat Prelude, Fugue and Allegro originally written for lute, but which also finds a happy home on the harpsichord. The most famous but also most uncharacteristic piece is the mysterious Capriccio ‘on the departure of a beloved brother’ which appears to be a work of Bach’s late teenage years, though no definite corroborative proof of its commission or purpose has yet come to light. Rather, it seems unique in Bach’s output as a humorous parody of styles and emotions.