Benjamin Alard
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J. S. Bach: A Life in Music Vol. 1
RecommendedArnstadt & Mühlhausen (1703-1708), Early Cantatas
Paul Agnew (tenor), Les Arts Florissants (early music ensemble), Miriam Allan (soprano), Thomas Hobbs (tenor), Edward Grint, Maarten Engeltjes, Benjamin Alard (early keyboard instruments), Nicolas Kuntzelmann
With just one or two to a part, each musician is a leader here. The purity of the singers’ straight tones and the immediacy and depth of their individual reactions to lexical meaning are bracing,... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th April 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Sunday Times, 20 Best Classical Albums of 2024
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New. Bach: Köthen, A Life in Music, Vol. 3
Les Arts Florissants, Benjamin Alard (harpischord), Paul Agnew
This instalment manages to say something engaging about music that sits at the core of the canon; no mean feat. —
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Johann Sebastian Bach: The Complete Works for Keyboard Vol. 4
Alla Veneziana
Benjamin Alard (harpsichord, organ)
With more than three hours of music, this three-disc set is not be consumed at one or even two sittings: it’s like a vast ornamental garden with many side-avenues which the listener is encouraged... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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Johann Sebastian Bach: The Complete Works For Keyboard, Vol. 8: Köthen, 1717-1723 - For Maria Barbara
Benjamin Alard (early keyboard instruments)
It’s the sort of music-making that, its intellectual grasp notwithstanding, clearly emanates from the heart. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Finalist - Instrumental
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Johann Sebastian Bach: The Complete Works For Keyboard, Vol. 7
Orgelbüchlein, Bwv 599-644 (with Choir)
Benjamin Alard (early keyboard instruments), Maîtrise Notre-Dame de Paris, Ensemble Vocal Bergamasque, Émilie Fleury, Marine Fribourg
This set of Bach’s Orgelbüchlein is not only first-rate in every way in terms of Alard’s idiomatic and thoughtful playing, the excellent recorded sound…every one of these chorales is followed... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Finalist - Instrumental
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JS Bach: A Life in Music Vol. 2
The Weimar Years (1708-1717)
Paul Agnew (tenor), Les Arts Florissants (early music ensemble), Benjamin Alard (early keyboard instruments)
Undogmatic about forces or format, Agnew achieves from the outset an exceptional alliance between singers and instrumentalists. —
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Both connoisseurs and newcomers will find a great deal to savour in this exquisitely conceived album. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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Johann Sebastian Bach: The Complete Works For Keyboard, Vol. 9
Köthen, 1717-1723 - The Happy Years
Benjamin Alard (organ), Sien Huybrechts (flute), Anne Pekkala (violin), Paul Monteiro (violin), Samantha Montgomery (viola), Ronan Kernoa (violin), Marc Mauillon (baritone)
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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J. S. Bach: The Complete Works For Keyboard, Vol. 11
Clavier-Übungen I & II
Benjamin Alard (harpsichord)
Unlike his previous accounts for Alpha in 2010, characterisation is now refocused with eloquent intimacy and with less reliance on acoustical resonance, applying a subtler and more personal... —
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JS Bach: The Complete Works For Keyboard, Vol. 10
Trio Sonatas, BWV 525-530 - Notebook For Anna Magdalena
Benjamin Alard (harpsichord, clavichord), Gerlinde Sämann (soprano)
