JULY 29 wp - Harmonia Mundi UK Distribution
JULY 29 wp - Harmonia Mundi UK Distribution
JULY 29 wp - Harmonia Mundi UK Distribution
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Label: NAÏVE<br />
File Under: Classical/Instrumental<br />
Catalogue No: NC400<strong>29</strong><br />
Barcode: 822186400<strong>29</strong>6<br />
MID Price<br />
Format: 1 CD<br />
Packaging: digipack<br />
Pierre Hantaï [harpsichord]<br />
J.S. BACH: Goldberg Variations BWV988<br />
Pierre Hantaï<br />
RELEASE DATE<br />
<strong>29</strong>TH <strong>JULY</strong> 2013<br />
Pierre Hantaï’s incisive, ornate playing delights in the intellectual virtuosity and harpsichord pyrotechnics, feeds on the<br />
complexity of the counterpoint, finding freedom in the rigorously thought-out scoring. Ultimately, this is a perfectly<br />
structured book of metamorphoses, closing with the initial Aria, like an invitation to return to the starting point and travel<br />
again. An “art of the variation” just as there is an Art of Fugue.<br />
Pierre Hantaï, born in 1964, is one of the most inquisitive, determined and innovative of that generation. At the age of 19,<br />
he distinguished himself at the Musica Antiqua Bruges competition in Belgium and had scarcely turned 30 when he<br />
recorded his masterful 'Goldberg Variations'. While his meeting with Gustav Leonhardt sharpened his appetite for<br />
research and his quest for perfection, stimulating his instinct and development, his main inspiration remains Bach.<br />
His first love endures. Today Pierre Hantaï is still drawn back relentlessly to Bach’s work, either on the harpsichord or<br />
with his orchestra Le Concert Français
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