Viviane Chassot - Pure Bach (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

The music of Johann Sebastian Bach has brought accordionist Viviane Chassot out of a serious personal crisis. Since she discovered how well the music of the Thomaskantor can be reproduced on the accordion, she has now created a Bach album - after Haydn and Mozart. With works from the Woltemperierte Clavier, the well-known 'Italian Concerto' as well as other suites and partitas. The artist explains: 'The liveliness and power may jump out at us first when we hear Bach's music. But the composer did not have an easy life and anything but a straight path through life - he had to put up with many strokes of fate, became an orphan at the age of ten, lost his first wife at an early age; children also died. Death accompanied him throughout his life - and I think that these aspects of pain and loss always resonate in his music, even when it is superficially dancing or simply cheerful'. Bach and accordion - this combination is not exactly obvious. But Viviane Chassot says: 'What is very much in favor of the accordion as a possible instrument for Bach's music for keyboard instruments are the wind-like shaping possibilities that I have thanks to the bellows. With it and with differentiated articulation, I can make the music breathe and speak; I achieve dynamics and a variety of colors through diverse registration possibilities. And the virtuoso dance movements are given a musical - even archaic - touch on the accordion'.

TRACKLIST

1. Viviane Chassot - The Well Tempered Clavier, Vol. I, Prelude and Fugue in C Minor, BWV 847: I. Prelude (Arr. for Accordion)
2. Viviane Chassot - The Well Tempered Clavier, Vol. I, Prelude and Fugue in C Minor, BWV 847: II. Fugue (Arr. for Accordion)
3. Viviane Chassot - Italian Concerto in F Major, BWV 971: I. Allegro (Arr. for Accordion)
4. Viviane Chassot - Italian Concerto in F Major, BWV 971: II. Andante (Arr. for Accordion)
5. Viviane Chassot - Italian Concerto in F Major, BWV 971: III. Presto (Arr. for Accordion)
6. Viviane Chassot - French Suite No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 813: I. Allemande (Arr. for Accordion)
7. Viviane Chassot - French Suite No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 813: II. Courante (Arr. for Accordion)
8. Viviane Chassot - French Suite No. 2 in C Minor, : III Sarabande (Arr. for Accordion)
9. Viviane Chassot - French Suite No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 813: IV. Air (Arr. for Accordion)
10. Viviane Chassot - French Suite No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 813: V. Menuett I & II (Arr. for Accordion)
11. Viviane Chassot - French Suite No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 813: VI. Gigue (Arr. for Accordion)
12. Viviane Chassot - French Suite No. 5 in G Major, BWV 816: I. Allemande (Arr. for Accordion)
13. Viviane Chassot - French Suite No. 5 in G Major, BWV 816: II. Courante (Arr. for Accordion)
14. Viviane Chassot - French Suite No 5 in G Major, BWV 816: III. Sarabande (Arr. for Accordion)
15. Viviane Chassot - French Suite No. 5 in G Major, BWV 816: IV. Gavotte (Arr. for Accordion)
16. Viviane Chassot - French Suite No. 5 in G Major, BWV 816: V. Bourrée (Arr. for Accordion)
17. Viviane Chassot - French Suite No. 5 in G Major, BWV 816: VI. Loure (Arr. for Accordion)
18. Viviane Chassot - French Suite No. 5 in G Major, BWV 816: VII. Gigue (Arr. for Accordion)
19. Viviane Chassot - Partita No. 1 in B-Flat Major, BWV 825: I. Praeludium (Arr. for Accordion)
20. Viviane Chassot - Partita No. 1 in B-Flat Major, BWV 825: II. Allemande (Arr. for Accordion)
21. Viviane Chassot - Partita No. 1 in B-Flat Major, BWV 825: III. Courante (Arr. for Accordion)
22. Viviane Chassot - Partita No. 1 in B-Flat Major, BWV 825: IV. Sarabande (Arr. for Accordion)
23. Viviane Chassot - Partita No. 1 in B-Flat Major, BWV 825: V. Menuet I & II (Arr. for Accordion)
24. Viviane Chassot - Partita No. 1 in B-Flat Major, BWV 825: VI. Gigue (Arr. for Accordion)



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