Label: Myrios Classics
Format: CD
Barcode: 4260183510017
Catalog number: MYR 001
Releasedate: 27-10-23
Format: CD
Barcode: 4260183510017
Releasedate: 27-10-23
Léon Berben plays Fantasies & Fugues by Johann Sebastian Bach, showing the wide range of the composer‘s ingenious keyboard compositions. The album includes rarely performed works of Bach‘s early years as well as masterpieces like the »Chromatic Fantasy & Fugue«. „This fantasy is one of a kind and has never been matched“, Bach biographer Johann Nicolaus Forkel wrote in 1802 on BWV903. The rejoice in virtuoso, improvised playing, with neither composer nor player subjecting themselves to any rules, made the fantasy a popular genre for keyboard players in the 18th century. Under the influence of the intentions of the past Renaissance period, the „free fantasy“ developed and found its musical peak in J.S. Bach’s works. Léon Berben performs on a harpsichord by Keith Hill (after Christian Zell, Hamburg 1728)
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1Fantasia in A minor BWV90403:30
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2Fugue in A minor BWV90405:12
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3Fantasia in A minor BWV94400:53
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4Fugue in A minor BWV94405:37
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5Fantasia chromatica in D minor BWV90306:22
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6Fugue in D minor BWV90304:58
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7Fantasia in B minor BWV deest01:55
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8Fugue on a theme by Albinoni in B minor BWV951a05:59
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9Fantasia in C minor BWV90604:30
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10Fugue in C minor BWV90603:13
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11Fantaisie sur un Rondeau in C minor BWV91805:20
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12Fantasia in C minor BWV112103:01
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13Fantasia duobus subiectis in G minor BWV91702:30
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14Fugue in A minor BWV95903:03
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15Fantasia in A minor BWV92205:32