Amandine Savary - J.S. Bach: Toccatas (2014) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Composed during Bach s early years as a composer, these Toccatas are written in the Stylus Phantasticus, inherited from the great Buxtehude. Free-flowing, virtuoso, fresh, they form a false album collated after the composer s death, and are unjustly among the least known works of the master of Weimar. For her first solo disc, the pianist Amandine Savary gives a perfect performance of these masterpieces of sensitivity. The French pianist Amandine Savary was awarded a scholarship to enter the Royal Academy of Music in London, obtaining her BMus diploma with honours in 2007. She has received exceptional exposure in the UK as a winner of the Tillett Trust Young Artists Platform Scheme 2006, Young Concert Artists Series as well as the Park Lane Group Young Artists Series in 2008. As a recitalist and chamber music player, she has performed in major concert halls such as the Purcell Room, Wigmore Hall, Bozar, Flagey and the Royal Palace (Brussels), Radio France, Auditorium du Louvre (Paris), Palacio de Festivales (Spain), Kaufmann Hall (New York), Izumi Hall in Osaka, Fumin Alti Hall in Kyoto, Suntory Hall in Tokyo (Japan), Alte Oper (Frankfurt), Opéra Garnier (Monaco), the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam… Amandine Savary has a passion for chamber music and is a founding member of the Dali Piano Trio (with Jack Liebeck, violin, and Christian‐Pierre La Marca, cello). The trio was in residence at the Queen Elisabeth College in Belgium and received tuition from the Artemis Quartet and from Menahem Pressler of the Beaux-Arts Trio. With the other members of the Trio she was a fellow of the Royal Academy of Music between 2008 and 2010 and is now an Associate of that institution. This is her first solo recording.

TRACKLIST

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)
Toccatas BWV 910 - 916

01. Toccata in C Minor, BWV 911 (10:53)
02. Toccata in G Major, BWV 916 (7:50)
03. Toccata in G Minor, BWV 915 (9:11)
04. Toccata in F-Sharp Minor, BWV 910 (11:25)
05. Toccata in E Minor, BWV 914 (6:51)
06. Toccata in D Minor, BWV 913 (11:24)
07. Toccata in D Major, BWV 912 (11:14)

PERSONNEL
Amandine Savary (piano)

Recorded at the Temple Luthérien Saint-Pierre (Paris, France) 2-4 April 2013