Diana Boyle plays Bach

Diana Boyle plays Bach

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Digital Booklet
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Catalogue No: DDA 25190
EAN/UPC: 809730519024
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Release Date: June 2019
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Discs: 2
Total Playing Time: 84:28

Diana Boyle is a fine pianist who records little but prepares each recording with years of thought, consideration and meditation on the music. Her interpretations are individual and thought-provoking, often delicate, not always conforming to the norm which pianists of lesser talent will follow, but looking to breathe new life and spirit into classic masterpieces. Her previous Divine Art albums have been very popular and highly praised.

Like all of Diana Boyle’s work these new recordings are very carefully prepared and well crafted performances which do not fear to display real feeling and depth, not at all like the all too common ‘mechanical’ performances of Baroque music. The works themselves are not all among Bach’s best known, but all display his total mastery of the art of composition.

Track Listing

    Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750):
  1. Overture in French Style, BWV 831 - I. Ouverture (14:23)
  2. Overture in French Style, BWV 831 - II. Courante (1:49)
  3. Overture in French Style, BWV 831 - III. Gavotte I (1:47)
  4. Overture in French Style, BWV 831 - IV. Gavotte II (1:40)
  5. Overture in French Style, BWV 831 - V. Da capo to Gavotte I (1:11)
  6. Overture in French Style, BWV 831 - VI. Passepied I (1:21)
  7. Overture in French Style, BWV 831 - VII. Passpied II (1:34)
  8. Overture in French Style, BWV 831 - VIII. Da capo to Passepied I (1:16)
  9. Overture in French Style, BWV 831 - IX. Sarabande (4:10)
  10. Overture in French Style, BWV 831 - X. Bourrée I (1:36)
  11. Overture in French Style, BWV 831 - XI. Bourrée II (1:08)
  12. Overture in French Style, BWV 831 - XII. Gigue (2:24)
  13. Overture in French Style, BWV 831 - XIII. Echo (2:29)
  14. French Suite No. 1 in D minor, BWV 812 - I. Allemande (3:44)
  15. French Suite No. 1 in D minor, BWV 812 - II. Courante (2:57)
  16. French Suite No. 1 in D minor, BWV 812 - III. Sarabande (5:04)
  17. French Suite No. 1 in D minor, BWV 812 - IV. Menuet I (1:53)
  18. French Suite No. 1 in D minor, BWV 812 - V. Menuet II (1:32)
  19. French Suite No. 1 in D minor, BWV 812 - VI. Da capo to Menuet I (1:04)
  20. French Suite No. 1 in D minor, BWV 812 - VII. Gigue (3:14)
  21. Sinfonia No. 5 in E flat major, BWV 791 (4:01)
  22. Sinfonia No. 11 in G minor, BWV 797 (3:03)
  23. Sinfonia No. 4 in D minor, BWV 790 (2:22)
  24. Sinfonia No. 13 in A minor, BWV 799 (1:55)
  25. Sinfonia No. 8 in F major, BWV 794 (1:54)
  26. Sinfonia No. 7 in E minor, BWV 793 (3:35)
  27. Sinfonia No. 6 in E major, BWV 792 (2:30)
  28. Sinfonia No. 12 in A major, BWV 798 (2:14)
  29. Sinfonia No. 9 in F minor, BWV 795 (6:28)

Reviews

Fanfare
“

Performances of Bach of the most remarkable concentration. Boyle throughout gives the impression of carefully sculpting the music from a most interior place… accents are perfectly judged, and a sure sense of rhythm forms the backbone of these fine readings. This 2018 recording is superbly realized.

” —Colin Clarke
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The Chronicle
“

This album of gentle piano music has a definite meditative quality to it. The music of Bach played by a top pianist who has spent years thinking about how to play — if you want calm and measured music, there’s not much could beat this.

” —Jeremy Condliffe
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MusicWeb International
“

I was impressed. There is a coolness about her interpretation that allows the music to speak without hindrance of any sort. Neither does she destroy the flow of the music with excessive ornamentation. I think it all comes down to her musical aesthetic which declares that Bach’s ‘music is for the inner spirit, for our deepest meditation’. The recording of the music is excellent and allows the listener to hear the interaction of all the contrapuntal parts and the articulation of the ornaments.

” —John France
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