Karina Gauvin, Luc Beauséjour, Sergei Istomin - Little Notebook for Anna-Magdalena Bach (2008)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 341 Mb | Total time: 66:04 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Analekta | # 22012 | Recorded: 1995
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 341 Mb | Total time: 66:04 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Analekta | # 22012 | Recorded: 1995
The Notenbuchlein (or “Little Music Book”) for Anna Magdalena Bach is one of the most affectionate and tangible means by which we can glimpse an aspect of the Bach family ‘off duty’, so-to-speak. Bach began this anthology devoted mainly to the keyboard for his second wife in 1722, having three years earlier done the same for his eldest son, Wilhelm Friedemann. Musically speaking, the most important contents are five suites which, with some additional material and a sixth suite, were to become the French Suites (BWV812-7). But it is the remaining pieces which convey such warm intimacy to us, looking, as it were, through the window.