Céline Frisch – Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier Book II (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Céline Frisch – Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier Book II (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:25:47 minutes | 3,10 GB | Genre: Classical
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Two years after releasing her CD dedicated to Book I of J.S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, Céline Frisch now presents the second volume of this musical landmark. Bach compiled Book II in 1744, twenty-two years after Book I. It took until 1801 for both volumes to be printed: from then until the present day they have inspired countless composers. After a series of recordings with the Ensemble Zimmermann she helped to found, Céline Frisch returns to the harpsichord recital, for a programme of this, her very favourite music. Through these preludes and fugues, she reminds us that far from being technical exercises, the Well- Tempered Clavier is a work of pure pleasure and constant renewed discovery. As Robert Schumann declared: ‘You should frequently play the fugues of the great masters, particularly those of J.S. Bach. Make the Well-Tempered Clavier your daily bread.’

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Céline Frisch – Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier I, BWV 846-869 (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Céline Frisch – Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier I, BWV 846-869 (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:42:56 minutes | 2,20 GB | Genre: Classical
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Céline Frisch, harpsichordist and co-founder of the Café Zimmermann ensemble, returns to the recital with a programme devoted entirely to Johann Sebastian Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier.

After the success of her Goldberg Variations and a disc devoted to Rameau’s harpsichord pieces, for this recording, Céline Frisch draws on her ‘bedside’ music. She thus reminds us that, beyond an exercise for advancing his technique (and we are well familiar with Bach’s strictness in this art), The Well-Tempered Clavier is also a work of pure pleasure, like a constant rediscovery: a landscape that one never tires of admiring.
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Céline Frisch – L’aimable. Une journée avec Louis XV (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Céline Frisch – L’aimable. Une journée avec Louis XV (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:12:14 minutes | 2,72 GB | Genre: Classical
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‘But what are we going to do with all these pleasures?’ A question sung tête-à-tête by the Princess and the Prince in Jacques Demy’s film Peau d’âne (Donkey Skin), and a more bothersome question for harpsichordists drawn to the age of Louis XV. What to do with all the pleasures that the composers of the time distributed so extravagantly, how to live today in this ‘kingdom of the pleasant’? The usual option is to stick to the most perfectionist of these masters (Couperin), the most ambitious (Rameau) or the most adventurous (Forqueray) in programmes focusing on one of them at time. But that means setting aside a whole swathe of the repertory, which Céline Frisch here restores to the limelight, following an original method. From Couperin’s Le Réveil-matin to Corrette’s Les Étoiles , she retraces a day at the court of Louis XV, making full use of the sound palette offered by an exceptional harpsichord, a replica by Andrea Restelli of an instrument by Goujon.

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