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Reviewer: Bradley
Lehman
The three most substantial of
Bach’s own pieces are the Capriccio in B-flat, S 992, French Suite 4, and
the Praeludium, Fugue, and Allegro, S 998. This last piece is only loosely
connected to the rest of the program. It is a much later piece (1739), but
may have been used to teach musical style to some of Bach’s youngest
children. I don’t care that this contrived connection is an anomaly, because
the performance, intonation, and tone are all so good. I’d want this
recording of it, no matter what the rest of the program is. Corti includes a
partly improvised prelude (S 815a) for the French Suite 4. He plays an
earlier manuscript version of the suite, and he elaborates it freely in the
repeats. It sounds like spontaneous music flowing out of him. Kuhnau’s piece
is the Biblical Sonata about King Hezekiah. Telemann’s is a keyboard
arrangement of one of his orchestral suites (ouvertures). Three of the 12
movements are omitted. Corti did record the whole suite, but the resulting
program ended up too long to fit onto a single CD. Purchasers of a download
version can get all of it, as the missing movements (a total of five
minutes) are edited into the tracks at the ends of other movements. That odd
compromise is the only mark against this fabulous program. | ||||
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