Beni Araki - Bachissimo (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Beni Araki began her studies as a harpsichordist at the “Toho-Gakuen” in Tokyo. She continued her studies with Jos van Immerseel at the Royal Conservatory in Antwerp and attended master classes with Gustav Leonhardt and the organist Luigi F. Tagliavini. She completed her studies with “distinction”. Beni Araki lives in Berlin and pursues an active concert career. This includes engagements as a soloist with baroque orchestras such as Anima Eterna (Belgium), Streicher Akademie Bozen (Italy), Concerto Brandenburg (Berlin) and as a continuo player regular collaboration with various ensembles such as Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Lautten Compagney, Kammerakademie Potsdam, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester and Berliner Philharmoniker. She is also a sought-after chamber music partner of soloists such as Albrecht Mayer, Sergio Azzolini, Andreas Buschatz, Sayako Kusaka and others, has appeared in television and radio concerts and performed at music festivals such as the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Bebersee Festival, the Musikwoche Hitzacker, the Osterfestspiel Baden-Baden, the Rheingau Music Festival and others. She has received several awards and scholarships including working scholarships from the Berlin Senate for Culture and Europe and the German Music Council. As a harpsichord and fortepiano pianist, she has been involved in numerous CD recordings (including Deutsche Grammophon, Sony, harmonia mund france, Hänssler Profil, Carpe Diem).such as the world premiere recordings of piano works by E.T.A. Hoffmann and Joseph Elsner as well as piano chamber music on the fortepiano or harpsichord music by Joaquin Rodrigo attest to her diverse musical activities. In 2018, the CD “Fortepiano Trios :Frédéric Chopin and Joseph Elsner” (Hänssler) was nominated for the German Record Critics’ Prize. Beni Araki is a lecturer at the Berlin University of the Arts.
Beni Araki began her studies as a harpsichordist at the “Toho-Gakuen” in Tokyo. She continued her studies with Jos van Immerseel at the Royal Conservatory in Antwerp and attended master classes with Gustav Leonhardt and the organist Luigi F. Tagliavini. She completed her studies with “distinction”.

Beni Araki lives in Berlin and pursues an active concert career. This includes engagements as a soloist with baroque orchestras such as Anima Eterna (Belgium), Streicher Akademie Bozen (Italy), Concerto Brandenburg (Berlin) and as a continuo player regular collaboration with various ensembles such as Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Lautten Compagney, Kammerakademie Potsdam, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester and Berliner Philharmoniker. She is also a sought-after chamber music partner of soloists such as Albrecht Mayer, Sergio Azzolini, Andreas Buschatz, Sayako Kusaka and others, has appeared in television and radio concerts and performed at music festivals such as the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Bebersee Festival, the Musikwoche Hitzacker, the Osterfestspiel Baden-Baden, the Rheingau Music Festival and others.

She has received several awards and scholarships including working scholarships from the Berlin Senate for Culture and Europe and the German Music Council.

As a harpsichord and fortepiano pianist, she has been involved in numerous CD recordings (including Deutsche Grammophon, Sony, harmonia mund france, Hänssler Profil, Carpe Diem).such as the world premiere recordings of piano works by E.T.A. Hoffmann and Joseph Elsner as well as piano chamber music on the fortepiano or harpsichord music by Joaquin Rodrigo attest to her diverse musical activities.

In 2018, the CD “Fortepiano Trios :Frédéric Chopin and Joseph Elsner” (Hänssler) was nominated for the German Record Critics’ Prize.

Beni Araki is a lecturer at the Berlin University of the Arts.

TRACKLIST

2. Beni Araki - Suite for Lute Harpsichord in E Major, BWV 1006a: II. Loure
3. Beni Araki - Suite for Lute Harpsichord in E Major, BWV 1006a: III. Gavotte en Rondeau
4. Beni Araki - Suite for Lute Harpsichord in E Major, BWV 1006a: IV. Menuett I & II
5. Beni Araki - Suite for Lute Harpsichord in E Major, BWV 1006a: V. Bourée
6. Beni Araki - Suite for Lute Harpsichord in E Major, BWV 1006a: VI. Gigue
7. Beni Araki - Suite for Lute Harpsichord in E Minor, BWV 996: I. Prelude. Passaggio - Presto
8. Beni Araki - Suite for Lute Harpsichord in E Minor, BWV 996: II. Allemande
9. Beni Araki - Suite for Lute Harpsichord in E Minor, BWV 996: III. Courante
10. Beni Araki - Suite for Lute Harpsichord in E Minor, BWV 996: IV. Sarabande
11. Beni Araki - Suite for Lute Harpsichord in E Minor, BWV 996: V. Bourée
12. Beni Araki - Suite for Lute Harpsichord in E Minor, BWV 996: VI. Gigue
13. Beni Araki - The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue No. 3 in C-Sharp Major, BWV 872: I. Prelude
14. Beni Araki - The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue No. 3 in C-Sharp Major, BWV 872: II. Fugue
15. Beni Araki - Sonata for Lute Harpsichord in D Minor, BWV 964: I. Adagio
16. Beni Araki - Sonata for Lute Harpsichord in D Minor, BWV 964: II. Allegro
17. Beni Araki - Sonata for Lute Harpsichord in D Minor, BWV 964: III. Andante
18. Beni Araki - Sonata for Lute Harpsichord in D Minor, BWV 964: IV. Allegro
19. Beni Araki - Suite for Lute Harpsichord in G Minor, BWV 995: I. Prelude
20. Beni Araki - Suite for Lute Harpsichord in G Minor, BWV 995: II. Allemande
21. Beni Araki - Suite for Lute Harpsichord in G Minor, BWV 995: III. Courante
22. Beni Araki - Suite for Lute Harpsichord in G Minor, BWV 995: IV. Sarabande
23. Beni Araki - Suite for Lute Harpsichord in G Minor, BWV 995: V. Gavotte I & II en Rondeau
24. Beni Araki - Suite for Lute Harpsichord in G Minor, BWV 995: VI. Gigue
25. Beni Araki - The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Prelude and Fugue No. 21 in B-Flat Major, BWV 866: I. Prelude
26. Beni Araki - The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Prelude and Fugue No. 21 in B-Flat Major, BWV 866: II. Fugue
27. Beni Araki - Prelude for Lute Harpsichord in C Minor, BWV 999
28. Beni Araki - Suite No. 2 for Lute Harpsichord in C Minor, BWV 997: I. Prelude
29. Beni Araki - Suite No. 2 for Lute Harpsichord in C Minor, BWV 997: II. Fugue
30. Beni Araki - Suite No. 2 for Lute Harpsichord in C Minor, BWV 997: III. Sarabande
31. Beni Araki - Suite No. 2 for Lute Harpsichord in C Minor, BWV 997: IV. Gigue - Double
32. Beni Araki - Prelude, Fugue and Allegro in E-Flat Major for Lute Harpsichord, BWV 998: I. Prelude
33. Beni Araki - Prelude, Fugue and Allegro in E-Flat Major for Lute Harpsichord, BWV 998: II. Fugue
34. Beni Araki - Prelude, Fugue and Allegro in E-Flat Major for Lute Harpsichord, BWV 998: III. Allegro



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