Pachelbel - Keyboard Suites
Catalog Number: BIS809
Seven keyboard suites that reveal Pachelbel as a composer of rare architectural grace — French in form, profoundly personal in spirit. Joseph Payne's luminous harpsichord playing brings each movement to poised, intimate life.
Pachelbel - Keyboard Suites
Pachelbel's keyboard music has long lived in the shadow of a single work — the ubiquitous Canon in D — yet these seven suites demonstrate a composer of genuine sophistication and melodic invention. Drawing on the refined French suite tradition that dominated German keyboard writing in the seventeenth century, Pachelbel fashions his allemandes, courantes, sarabandes and gigues with a sense of architectural proportion that feels both inevitable and quietly original. There is a clarity to the part-writing, a neatness of construction, that suggests a mind as comfortable with craft as with inspiration.
Joseph Payne has championed this repertoire with scholarly dedication and real musical warmth, and his harpsichord playing here is poised and expressive throughout. He navigates the inner logic of each suite with easy authority, allowing the dances to speak for themselves without imposing interpretative weight. The slower movements breathe with genuine feeling; the faster ones have rhythmic energy without rigidity. An album of understated beauty, and a compelling case for hearing Pachelbel whole.
Published date
1996-08-31
Number of discs
1
Channels
stereo:16:2.0
Made in Sweden since 1999. In collaboration with Textalk.
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