Johann Sebastian Bach’s Suites and Fantasias is Ms Kim’s virtuosic presentation of some of Bach’s most challenging, rare and beautiful works for keyboard. The collection begins with the thrilling Prelude, Fugue and Allegro in E flat and then presents the beautiful unfinished Suite in F minor BWV 823, which exists only as a fragment. Throughout […]
D’Anglebert Pieces de Clavecin, 1689 Paris
The harpsichord music of Jean-Henri D’Anglebert boasts an extraordinary richness of texture and a dense tapestry of ornaments. The many small ornamental figures, liberally added like embroidery to the dances that make up the majority of the harpsichord pieces, result in a sumptuous variety of detail, an elegant subtlety that mirrors the elegance and richness […]
The Virginalists
This collection of works by William Byrd, Giles Farnaby, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck and others may owe its existence to the restless work of a rebellious and wealthy prisoner. The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book was compiled by Francis Tregian (1574-1618) in the last decade of his life and is well known for the famous but probably apocryphal […]