La Tempête & Simon-Pierre Bestion – Bach minimaliste (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

La Tempête & Simon-Pierre Bestion – Bach minimaliste (2023)
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J. S. Bach’s Harpsichord Concerto in D minor is the centrepiece of this programme: ‘This music seems absolutely modern to me: a continuous, endlessly developing thread, giving it an almost hypnotic aspect… These adjectives also belong to the vocabulary of today’s music, whether it is “popular”, as in techno, or “art music”, as in the so-called repetitive or minimalist movement’, says Simon-Pierre Bestion. Two hundred and thirty years after Bach, Górecki wrote a harpsichord concerto in the same key, using it ‘as a very rhythmic and extremely stealthy instrument’. John Adams, a leading figure of the American minimalist movement, composed Shaker Loops in 1978: ‘This masterpiece takes on a special interest because we play on instruments with gut strings. That gives the music a very special texture.’ Bach’s Passacaglia (‘a single musical theme heard forty-one times’) and Jehan Alain’s Litanies complete this programme, which brings together the Bestion brothers, with Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas as soloist in the concertos.

Tracklist:
1. La Tempête & Simon-Pierre Bestion – Bach: Harpsichord Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, BWV 1052: I. Allegro (06:57)
2. La Tempête & Simon-Pierre Bestion – Górecki: Harpsichord Concerto, Op. 40: I. Allegro molto (05:03)
3. La Tempête & Simon-Pierre Bestion – Nystedt: Immortal Bach, Op. 153 (Arr. for String Ensemble by Simon-Pierre Bestion) (03:32)
4. La Tempête & Simon-Pierre Bestion – Adams: Shaker Loops: I. Shaking and Trembling (08:46)
5. La Tempête & Simon-Pierre Bestion – Alain: Litanies, JA 119 (Arr. for Harpsichord and String Ensemble by Simon-Pierre Bestion) (05:21)
6. La Tempête & Simon-Pierre Bestion – Adams: Shaker Loops: II. Hymning Slews (06:50)
7. La Tempête & Simon-Pierre Bestion – Bach: Passacaglia in C Minor, BWV 582 (Arr. for Harpsichord and String Ensemble by Simon-Pierre Bestion) (07:19)
8. La Tempête & Simon-Pierre Bestion – Nystedt: Immortal Bach, Op. 153 (04:25)
9. La Tempête & Simon-Pierre Bestion – Bach: Harpsichord Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, BWV 1052: III. Allegro (08:28)
10. La Tempête & Simon-Pierre Bestion – Górecki: Harpsichord Concerto, Op. 40: II. Vivace marcatissimo (03:56)
11. La Tempête & Simon-Pierre Bestion – Adams: Shaker Loops: III. Loops and Verses (07:16)
12. La Tempête & Simon-Pierre Bestion – Adams: Shaker Loops: IV. A Final Shaking (04:07)
13. La Tempête & Simon-Pierre Bestion – Bach: Vor deinen Thron tret’ ich, BWV 668 (03:52)

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