Jonathan Ferrucci – Johann Sebastian Bach: The Toccatas (2025) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Jonathan Ferrucci – Johann Sebastian Bach: The Toccatas (2025)
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Johann Sebastian Bach’s seven keyboard toccatas are among his “rebellious” youthful works: experimental in form, startlingly bold in expression, powerful in the design of the fugues. The Italian-Australian pianist Jonathan Ferrucci regards the pieces as a “musical laboratory” in which Bach ultimately found his own style.Even their genesis seems mysterious: manuscripts of Johann Sebastian Bach’s toccatas have not survived. However, it is assumed that the works were composed in the years of his Arnstadt and early Weimar period, when Bach was gradually working his way up to become a renowned organist. And it is no wonder that he chose the toccata as the playground for his development: since the days of the Roman Girolamo Frescobaldi, the toccata was a kind of musical laboratory in which one could try out anything with impunity. There are virtuosic, glittering improvisations next to strict but extremely energetic fugues, expressive arias next to lively, folksy dances. Bach has thus compiled entertaining suites and potpourris with great freedom, but always allowing them to breathe under great dramatic arcs. Jonathan Ferrucci is certain that the toccatas are among Bach’s most interesting piano works. ‘He is bubbling over with ideas and always creates abrupt contrasts when you least expect them. There is this wild, youthful energy with which he explores all the affects and formal possibilities of the music of the time. And when I play, I feel as if I’m composing the music together with Bach in the moment – that’s because of this incredible spontaneity and his delight in invention.’ Born in Florence to Italian-Australian parents, Ferrucci’s childhood was already characterised by the glorious history of the Renaissance and Baroque periods and the vast Australian landscape.

Tracklist:

1-01. Jonathan Ferrucci – Toccata in C Minor, BWV 911: I. Moderato (03:41)
1-02. Jonathan Ferrucci – Toccata in C Minor, BWV 911: II. Allegro (08:13)
1-03. Jonathan Ferrucci – Toccata in G Minor, BWV 915: I. Adagio (01:48)
1-04. Jonathan Ferrucci – Toccata in G Minor, BWV 915: II. Allegro (03:36)
1-05. Jonathan Ferrucci – Toccata in G Minor, BWV 915: III. Fuga (04:10)
1-06. Jonathan Ferrucci – Toccata in D Minor, BWV 913: I. (03:04)
1-07. Jonathan Ferrucci – Toccata in D Minor, BWV 913: II. Thema (03:14)
1-08. Jonathan Ferrucci – Toccata in D Minor, BWV 913: III. Adagio (02:39)
1-09. Jonathan Ferrucci – Toccata in D Minor, BWV 913: IV. Allegro (04:04)
1-10. Jonathan Ferrucci – Toccata in G Major, BWV 916: I. Presto (02:06)
1-11. Jonathan Ferrucci – Toccata in G Major, BWV 916: II. Adagio (02:41)
1-12. Jonathan Ferrucci – Toccata in G Major, BWV 916: III. Allegro e Presto (02:53)
1-13. Jonathan Ferrucci – Toccata in E Minor, BWV 914: I. (05:01)
1-14. Jonathan Ferrucci – Toccata in E Minor, BWV 914: II. Fuga. Allegro (02:43)
1-15. Jonathan Ferrucci – Toccata in F-Sharp Minor, BWV 910: I. – (03:47)
1-16. Jonathan Ferrucci – Toccata in F-Sharp Minor, BWV 910: II. Presto e Staccato (07:14)
1-17. Jonathan Ferrucci – Toccata in D Major, BWV 912: I. Presto (03:02)
1-18. Jonathan Ferrucci – Toccata in D Major, BWV 912: II. Adagio (08:11)
1-19. Jonathan Ferrucci – Improvisation No. 13 in A Minor, FP 170 (03:10)
1-20. Jonathan Ferrucci – Flute Sonata No. 2 in E-Flat Major, BWV 1031: Siciliano (Arr. For Piano by Wilhelm Kempff) (02:47)
1-21. Jonathan Ferrucci – Le tombeau de Couperin, M. 68a: III. Menuet (05:02)

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