Pieter Dirksen: Js Bach: Seven Toccatas For Harpsichord - COMPACT DISCS

Title: Js Bach: Seven Toccatas For Harpsichord
Artist: Pieter Dirksen
Label: Etcetera Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 8711801017228
Genre: Classical Artists
Release Date: 2021-08-06
Number of Discs: 1

The words "Bach" and "toccata" seem to be inextricably linked with each other. However, a number of questions can be raised about this paradigm. This commonly made association mainly applies to the four organ toccatas, and of course especially to the all too celebrated one in D minor (BWV 565) which has become an archetype of both organ music in general and of Bach's music in particular. Apart from the fact that BWV 565 may not even have been composed by Bach himself, it remains remarkable that three or four organ toccatas stand opposite seven toccatas for harpsichord, which are equally interesting and virtuosic, suggesting that the harpsichord was as important to the young virtuoso as the organ. In his enthusiasm for the multisectional toccata, Bach stood alone in his day. Dutch organist Pieter Dirksen specialises in Baroque music, in particular the keyboard music of Sweelinck, the North German school and J.S. Bach. "Rarely do we witness such outstanding scholarship and performance concentrated in the work of one individual." Early Music Magazine

Tracks:
1.1 Toccata in F sharp minor BWV 910 - Moon
1.2 Toccata in E minor BWV 914 - Mercury
1.3 Toccata in G BWV 916 - Venus
1.4 Toccata in D minor BWV 913 - Sun
1.5 Toccata in D BWV 912 - Mars
1.6 Toccata in C minor BWV 911 - Jupiter
1.7 Toccata in G minor BWV 915 - Saturn