A Well-Tempered Conversation

Para celebrar el tricentenario del nacimiento del primer libro del Clave bien temperado, Julien Libeer ha optado por presentárnoslo bajo una luz insólita: aquí pone todos los preludios y fugas mayores en "conversación" con composiciones (en la tonalidad menor correspondiente) de músicos que, de un modo u otro, ampliaron los logros de esta suma musical fundacional. Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Rachmaninov, Ligeti y Schoenberg dialogan así con el Cantor en este vertiginoso juego de espejos...

A Well-Tempered Conversation

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Preludes and fugues in major keys from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, BWV 846-868

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Works for piano solo in minor keys by Beethoven, Chopin, Rachmaninov, Fauré, Ravel, Mozart*, Brahms, Shostakovich, Busoni, Ligeti, Reger & Schoenberg. 

 JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685-1750)

Prelude and Fugue in C major BWV 846

 

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770-1827)

Bagatelle in C minor WoO 52 (Presto)

 JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH

Prelude and Fugue in C-sharp major BWV 848

 FREDERIC CHOPIN (1810-1849)

Mazurka in C sharp minor op. 50 no. 3 (Moderato)

 JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH

Prelude and Fugue in D major BWV 850

 SERGEI RACHMANINOFF (1873-1943)

Prelude in D minor op. 23 no.3 

 JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH

Prelude and Fugue in E-flat major BWV 852

 GABRIEL FAURÉ (1845-1924)

Prelude in E flat minor op. 103 no. 6

 JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH

Prelude and Fugue in E major BWV 854

 

MAURICE RAVEL (1875-1937)

Fugue (Allegro moderato) in E minor from Le Tombeau de Couperin

 JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH

Prelude and Fugue in F major BWV 856 

 

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756-1791)

 arr. for two pianos by FERRUCCIO BUSONI (1866-1924)

*Fantasia in F minor for a Mechanical Organ, K.608 9’27

  Julien Libeer, piano Chris Maene

*with Adam Laloum, piano Chris Maene

 'Straight Strung Grand Piano'

 JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH

Prelude and Fugue in F-sharp major BWV 858

 JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833-1897)

Capriccio (Un poco agitato) in F sharp minor op. 76 no. 1 

 JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH

Prelude and Fugue in G major BWV 860

 DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH (1906-1975)

Prelude in G minor op. 34 no. 22 

 JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH

Prelude and Fugue in A-flat major BWV 862 

 FERRUCCIO BUSONI (1866-1924)

Prelude (Andantino) in G sharp minor op. 37 no. 12 (BV 181/12) 

 JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH

Prelude and Fugue in A major BWV 864

 GYÖRGY LIGETI (1923-2006)

Musica ricercata I on A (Sostenuto)

 JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH

Prelude and Fugue in B-flat major BWV 866

 MAX REGER (1873-1916)

Two-part Canon in B flat minor no. 19 1’35

 from 111 Canons in all Minor and Major Keys, WoO III/4, Book 1

 

 JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH

Prelude and Fugue in B major BWV 868

 

ARNOLD SCHOENBERG (1874-1951)

Sechs kleine Klavierstücke Op. 19 5’47

 JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH

Prelude in C major BWV 846

 Julien Libeer, piano Chris Maene

 ‘Straight Strung Grand Piano’ 

Fuente: Nota de prensa de Harmonia Mundi