Jean Rondeau - Dynastie: Bach Family Concertos (2017)

Jean Rondeau, the imaginative young French harpsichordist, describes the Bach family as “one of the great dynasties of western music”. Having devoted his first Erato disc, Imagine, to works by the towering Johann Sebastian, he now returns to Bach’s world for his third release, Dynastie, which complements concertos by Johann Sebastian with concertos by his three most famous sons, Wilhelm Friedemann, Carl Philipp Emmanuel and Johann Christian.
Rondeau has described JS Bach, who has been part of his life since his childhood, as “daunting like a mighty mountain”, but at the same time feels that “his music is so full of humility, so generous, that we have the right and the duty to play it, to share it, and to take the hand that he extends to us.”

TRACKLIST

01. Harpsichord Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, BWV 1052: I. Allegro
02. Harpsichord Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, BWV 1052: II. Adagio
03. Harpsichord Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, BWV 1052: III. Allegro
04. Harpsichord Concerto No. 6 in F Minor, W. C73 (formerly attrib. W. F. Bach): I. Allegro di molto
05. Harpsichord Concerto No. 6 in F Minor, W. C73 (formerly attrib. W. F. Bach): II. Andante
06. Harpsichord Concerto No. 6 in F Minor, W. C73 (formerly attrib. W. F. Bach): III. Prestissimo
07. Keyboard Sonata in G Major, F. 7: II. Lamento
08. Harpsichord Concerto No. 5 in F Minor, BWV 1056: I. Allegro
09. Harpsichord Concerto No. 5 in F Minor, BWV 1056: II. Largo
10. Harpsichord Concerto No. 5 in F Minor, BWV 1056: III. Presto
11. Harpsichord Concerto in D Minor, H. 427: I. Allegro
12. Harpsichord Concerto in D Minor, H. 427: II. Poco andante
13. Harpsichord Concerto in D Minor, H. 427: III. Allegro assai
14. Harpsichord Concerto No. 4 in A Major, BWV 1055: II. Larghetto