Dynastie - Bach Concertos

1. Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto No.1 BWV 1052 in D minor - Allegro
2. Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto No.1 BWV 1052 in D minor - Adagio
3. Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto No.1 BWV 1052 in D minor - Allegro
4. Johann-Christian Bach: Concerto in F minor - Allegro di molto
5. Johann-Christian Bach: Concerto in F minor - Andante
6. Johann-Christian Bach: Concerto in F minor - Prestissimo
7. Wilhelm Friedemann Bach: Sonata FK 7 in G Major second movement – Lamento
8. Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto No.5 BWV 1056 in F minor - Allegro
9. Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto No.5 BWV 1056 in F minor - Largo  
10. Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto No.5 BWV 1056 in F minor - Presto
11. Carl Philip Emanuel Bach: Concerto Wq 23 in D minor - Allegro
12. Carl Philip Emanuel Bach: Concerto Wq 23 in D minor - Poco andante
13. Carl Philip Emanuel Bach: Concerto Wq 23 in D minor - Allegro assai

“…Rondeau is one of the most natural performers one is likely to hear on a classical music stage these days. Affectation and ostentation are not part of his makeup and, once seated at the instrument, he and the harpsichord become one.” –The Washington Post

Jean Rondeau, the imaginative young French harpsichordist, describes the Bach family as “one of the great dynasties of western music”. Having devoted his first Erato disc, Imagine, to works by the towering Johann Sebastian, he now returns to Bach’s world for his third release, Dynastie, which complements concertos by Johann Sebastian with concertos by his three most famous sons, Wilhelm Friedemann, Carl Philipp Emmanuel and Johann Christian.

Rondeau has described JS Bach, who has been part of his life since his childhood, as “daunting like a mighty mountain”, but at the same time feels that “his music is so full of humility, so generous, that we have the right and the duty to play it, to share it, and to take the hand that he extends to us.”