Viviane Chassot -Pure Bach-Bach on the Accordion -Prospero CD Grooves.land/Playthek

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Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, Prelude & Fugue in C Minor, BWV 847

01. "Prelude"

02. "Fugue"
Italian Concerto in F Major, BWV 971

03. "Allegro"

04. "Andante"

05. "Presto"
French Suite No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 813

06. "Allemande"

07. "Courante"

08. "Sarabande"

09. "Air"

10. "Menuet 1 & 2"

11. "Gigue"
French Suite No. 5 in G Major, BWV 816

12. "Allemande"

13. "Courante"

14. "Sarabande"

15. "Gavotte"

16. "Bourr?e"

17. "Loure"

18. "Gigue"
Partita No. 1 in B-Flat Major, BWV 825

19. "Praeludium"

20. "Allemande"

21. "Corrente"

22. "Sarabande"

23. "Menuet 1 & 2"

24. "Gigue"

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Pure Bach by Viviane Chassot, released 4 June 2021. This version of Pure Bach comes as a 1xCD. -

The music of Johann Sebastian Bach has brought accordionist Viviane Chassot out of a serious personal crisis. Since she discovered how well the music of the Thomaskantor can be reproduced on the accordion, she has now created a Bach album - after Haydn and Mozart. With works from the Woltemperierte Clavier, the well-known 'Italian Concerto' as well as other suites and partitas. The artist explains: 'The liveliness and power may jump out at us first when we hear Bach's music. But the composer did not have an easy life and anything but a straight path through life - he had to put up with many strokes of fate, became an orphan at the age of ten, lost his first wife at an early age; children also died. Death accompanied him throughout his life - and I think that these aspects of pain and loss always resonate in his music, even when it is superficially dancing or simply cheerful'. Bach and accordion - this combination is not exactly obvious. But Viviane Chassot says: 'What is very much in favor of the accordion as a possible instrument for Bach's music for keyboard instruments are the wind-like shaping possibilities that I have thanks to the bellows. With it and with differentiated articulation, I can make the music breathe and speak; I achieve dynamics and a variety of colors through diverse registration possibilities. And the virtuoso dance movements are given a musical - even archaic - touch on the accordion'.

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PROSP0013

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