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Pieter Dirksen - Bach: Seven Toccatas for Harpsichord (2021)

Pieter Dirksen - Bach: Seven Toccatas for Harpsichord (2021)

BAND/ARTIST: Pieter Dirksen

  • Title: Bach: Seven Toccatas for Harpsichord
  • Year Of Release: 2021
  • Label: Etcetera
  • Genre: Classical
  • Quality: FLAC (tracks)
  • Total Time: 71:52 min
  • Total Size: 469 MB
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Tracklist:

01. Toccata in F-Sharp Minor BWV. 910, Moon: Passaggio-adagio - Fuga (Presto e staccato) - Adagio - Fuga
02. Toccata in E Minor BWV. 914, Mercury: Passaggio - Fuga (un poco Allegro) - Adagio - Fuga (Allegro)
03. Toccata in G Major BWV. 916, Venus: Passaggio:Allegro - Adagio - Fuga (Allegro e presto)
04. Toccata in D Minor BWV. 913, Sun: Passaggio-adagio - Fuga - Adagio - Fuga Allegro
05. Toccata in D Major BWV. 912, Mars: Passaggio - Allegro - Adagio-fuga-adagio - Fuga (Presto)
06. Toccata in C Minor BWV. 911, Jupiter: Passaggio - Adagio - Fuga (Allegro)-adagio - Fuga (Allegro)-adagio-presto
07. Toccata in G Minor BWV. 915, Saturn: Passaggio-adagio - Allegro-adagio - Fuga - Passaggio-adagio


Bach's sequel of seven Toccatas for Harpsichord BWV 910-916 has always presented something of an enigma in his oeuvre: on the one hand old-fashioned in its use of multisectional forms, on the other full of dramatic contrasts and unabashed virtuosity. However, renowned harpsichordist Pieter Dirksen has found a new approach to these pieces. He discovered that one of them, the Toccata in f# minor BWV 910, actually forms a tombeau on the death of Bach's mentor Dietrich Buxtehude. What is more, they seem to depict the nature of the seven planets of the by then already old-fashioned, Ptolemaic planetary order: Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. Bach not only paid a final tribute in these works to an archaic genre (the toccata), an older music tradition as well as to its supreme master, Buxtehude, but at the same time to a world view that was quickly losing ground as the "Enlightenment" of the eighteenth century started spreading its wings. These youthful, exuberant masterpieces can thus be heard from a completely new perspective.


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  • anatahan
  •  wrote in 11:09
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do you have his bach: kunst der fugue?