Nelson Freire – Bach (2016) [PrestoClassical FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Nelson Freire – Bach (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:21:34 minutes | 1,33 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: prestoclassical.co.uk  | Digital Booklet | © Decca
Recorded: Friedrich-Ebert-Halle, Harburg, 17-21 August 2015

Nelson Freire brings a lifetime’s experience to his first-ever album devoted to the music of J.S Bach. It was recorded in Freire’s 70th birthday year and provides a superb overview of Bach on the piano: towering original works such as the Fourth Partita and Chromatic Fantasy & Fugue; one of Bach’s own keyboard transcriptions (the sublime slow movement of Marcello’s Oboe Concerto) plus a selection of transcriptions by Busoni, Siloti and Myra Hess.

. . . exquisite playing . . . some of the finest ever transcriptions of Bach’s most enticing keyboard music . . . After listening to this album you will surely wonder, as I did, why Freire has left it so late to produce his first all-Bach album. Some purists sniff at Bach on the grand piano. Hearing this, I cannot understand why.
Record Review / David Mellor, Classic FM (London) / 20. February 2016

. . . a superb overview of Bach’s works played on the piano, from towering original works such as the Fourth Partita or the Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue, through to a selection of transcriptions. In lyrical mood, as in his version of Myra Hess’s arrangement of “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring”, Freire’s Bach is soft, flowing and atmospheric; elsewhere, especially in the Chromatic Fantasy, his fingerwork is dazzlingly fast, accurate and pin-sharp in its attack.

Record Review / Paul Drive, Classic FM (London) / 29. February 2016

Tracklist:

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Partita No.4 in D major, BWV 828
01 | I. Overture (4:30)
02 | II. Allemande (6:11)
03 | III. Courante (3:14)
04 | IV. Aria (1:26)
05 | V. Sarabande (3:29)
06 | VI. Menuet (1:21)
07 | VII. Gigue (2:42)
08 | Toccata in C Minor, BWV 911 (10:24)

English Suite No.3 in G minor, BWV 808
09 | I. Prélude (2:55)
10 | II. Allemande (2:44)
11 | III. Courante (1:49)
12 | IV. Sarabande (2:54)
13 | V. Gavotte I – Gavotte II ou la musette (3:22)
14 | VI. Gigue (2:45)

Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D minor, BWV 903
15 | I. Fantasia (5:26)
16 | II. Fugue (4:34)
17 | Concerto in D minor, BWV 974: Adagio (3:27)
18 | Choral: ‘Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ’, BWV 639 (3:03)
19 | Choral: ‘Komm Gott Schopfer heiliger Geist’, BWV 667 (2:11)
20 | Choral: ‘Nun komm der Heiden Heiland’, BWV 659 (5:01)
21 | Prelude in G Minor, BWV 535 (4:32)
22 | Jesu, Joy Of Man’s Desiring, BWV 147 (3:41)

Personnel:
Nelson Freire (piano)

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