Special offer. J. S. Bach: Transformations
Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya (harpsichord)
the performances here are sprightly, clear and sensible. Nepomnyashchaya keeps to tight parameters when it comes to registration and ornamentation, nothing too adventurous or beyond the bounds...
Special offer. J. S. Bach: Transformations
Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya (harpsichord)
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the performances here are sprightly, clear and sensible. Nepomnyashchaya keeps to tight parameters when it comes to registration and ornamentation, nothing too adventurous or beyond the bounds...
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For her debut solo album of music by J. S. Bach’s contemporary Gottlieb Muffat, Gramophone praised pianist and harpsichordist Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya as ‘an ideal advocate for the music’. Now, for her second solo recording for Linn, she turns to Johann Sebastian Bach in Transformations, revealing him as the supreme reinventor who continually refashioned existing material into striking new creations. The recital includes Bach’s brilliant reworkings of concertos by Vivaldi and Marcello, expanded with a colour and vitality well beyond the originals. The other works on the programme are extraordinary arrangements of Bach’s own music (Adagio in G major and Sonata in D minor), pieces initially written for a different instrument (Prelude, Fugue and Allegro in E flat major) and a concerto without orchestra (the ‘Italian Concerto’).
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May 2026
the performances here are sprightly, clear and sensible. Nepomnyashchaya keeps to tight parameters when it comes to registration and ornamentation, nothing too adventurous or beyond the bounds of idiomatic good taste.
