Bach – Beethoven

1. JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH - Overture in the French Style, BWV 831, Ouverture
2. JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH - Overture in the French Style, BWV 831, Courante
3. JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH - Overture in the French Style, BWV 831, Gavottes 1 and 2
4. JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH - Overture in the French Style, BWV 831, Passepied 1 and 2
5. JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH - Overture in the French Style, BWV 831, Sarabande
6. JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH - Overture in the French Style, BWV 831, Bourée 1 and 2
7. JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH - Overture in the French Style, BWV 831, Gigue
8. JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH - Overture in the French Style, BWV 831, Echo
9. LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN - Sonata No 13 in E flat major, ‘Quasi una Fantasia’, Op. 27, Nr. 1, Andante
10. LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN - Sonata No 13 in E flat major, ‘Quasi una Fantasia’, Op. 27, Nr. 1, Allegro molto e vivace
11. LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN - Sonata No 13 in E flat major, ‘Quasi una Fantasia’, Op. 27, Nr. 1, Adagio con espressione
12. LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN - Sonata No 13 in E flat major, ‘Quasi una Fantasia’, Op. 27, Nr. 1, Allegro vivace
13. LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN - Sonate No 23 in F minor, Op 57 ‘Appassionata’, Allegro Assai
14. LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN - Sonate No 23 in F minor, Op 57 ‘Appassionata’, Andante con moto
15. LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN - Sonate No 23 in F minor, Op 57 ‘Appassionata’, Allegro ma non troppo
16. JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH -  Siciliano from the Flute Sonata Nr 2
17. JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH -  Largo from the Piano Concerto in F minor

Shaped by pianist Andrew von Oeyen’s experience of lockdown, this solo recital comprises Bach’s eight-movement Overture in the French Style BWV 831, Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas No 13 in E flat and No 23 in F minor, ‘Appassionata’, and arrangements by Wilhelm Kempff of two movements that Bach wrote for accompanied flute and harpsichord, respectively.

“Perhaps more than any other composer, Bach expresses the clearest sense of order in a chaotic world,” says von Oeyen. “If Bach served as my first musical mooring in confinement, I returned to Beethoven for second-wave pandemic relief … I was now ready to weigh anchor and face the storm in the company of stalwart and indestructible 19th century sonatas. Crises, for all their destructiveness, can also lead to renewal and discovery.”