J.S. Bach: Inventions & Sinfonias

Experience J.S. Bach’s complete Inventions & Sinfonias in a stunning new recording by acclaimed Bach specialist Yuan Sheng, whose crystal-clear modern-piano artistry has captivated listeners worldwide. Perfect for fans searching for Bach piano masterpieces, Baroque essentials, or high-definition classical recordings, this album brings fresh brilliance and expressive depth to some of Bach’s most iconic teaching works. 💎 🎵 Purchase, stream or download (Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, Presto): https://pianoclassics.lnk.to/BachInve... 🎬🎮 These tracks are available for sync licensing in videos, films, TV shows, games, advertising, and more. For licensing inquiries: [email protected] Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach Artist: Yuan Sheng (piano) The latest volume in an ongoing series by an acclaimed Bach specialist on the modern piano. With recordings of the French Suites, Partitas and Goldberg Variations on Piano Classics, the Chinese pianist Yuan Sheng has placed himself among the most searching of present-day Bach pianists. As Jed Distler remarked in Gramophone, reviewing the Goldbergs, ‘Yuan Sheng’s disciplined, scrupulously terraced style often reflects his mentor Rosalyn Tureck.’ In a new and illuminating booklet essay for this album, the musicologist and pianist Raymond Erickson remarks that the 15 two-part Inventions and the 15 three-part Sinfonias played an important role in Bach's teaching. These pieces, although today mainly associated with basic piano training, are not at all easy and in fact are sophisticated, small-scale masterpieces. ‘They were not composed simply to provide technical training in keyboard playing but, perhaps more important, to teach keyboard players how to compose.’ In 1720 Bach's oldest son Wilhelm Friedemann (1710-84) was already of an age appropriate for introducing him into the family trade of musician. So Bach started for him a music notebook: a Clavierbüchlein which included these Inventions and Sinfonias. Bach revised them shortly before moving to Leipzig in the spring of 1720, to take up his new post as Thomaskantor, and copied them out with a preface. In learning and playing these works, Bach affirmed, a diligent student would be taught ‘a clear manner for playing not only in two voices but also in three obbligato parts and, furthermore, not only how to invent good musical ideas [inventiones] but also how to develop these well. And above all, how to achieve a cantabile manner of playing, and additionally to obtain a strong foretaste of Composition.’ So it is that the Inventions and Sinfonias have given much pleasure to both performers and listeners throughout the subsequent two centuries. Brief as they are, each one of these 30 works elegantly outlines a distinct and often playful world of its own. They reward intensive listening both on their own and in sequence. And Yuan Sheng’s performances draw on all the coloristic possibilities and varieties of articulation available on the modern piano, without seeking to exceed the bounds of style which the works themselves inhabit. Tracklist: 0:00:00 Invention 1 in C Major, BWV 772 0:01:26 Invention 2 in C Minor, BWV 773 0:03:40 Invention 3 in D Major, BWV 774 0:04:50 Invention 4 in D Minor, BWV 775 0:05:51 Invention 5 in E-Flat Major, BWV 776 0:07:45 Invention 6 in E Major, BWV 777 0:10:32 Invention 7 in E Minor, BWV 778 0:12:23 Invention 8 in F Major, BWV 779 0:13:21 Invention 9 in F Minor, BWV 780 0:15:31 Invention 10 in G Major, BWV 781 0:16:27 Invention 11 in G Minor, BWV 782 0:18:23 Invention 12 in A Major, BWV 783 0:19:35 Invention 13 in A Minor, BWV 784 0:20:55 Invention 14 in B-Flat Major, BWV 785 0:22:24 Invention 15 in B Minor, BWV 786 0:23:56 Sinfonia 1 in C Major, BWV 787 0:25:21 Sinfonia 2 in C Minor, BWV 788 0:27:34 Sinfonia 3 in D Major, BWV 789 0:28:58 Sinfonia 4 in D Minor, BWV 790 0:31:08 Sinfonia 5 in E-Flat Major, BWV 791 0:33:54 Sinfonia 6 in E Major, BWV 792 0:35:08 Sinfonia 7 in E Minor, BWV 793 0:37:30 Sinfonia 8 in F Major, BWV 794 0:38:45 Sinfonia 9 in F Minor, BWV 795 0:42:16 Sinfonia 10 in G Major, BWV 796 0:43:19 Sinfonia 11 in G Minor, BWV 797 0:45:53 Sinfonia 12 in A Major, BWV 798 0:47:14 Sinfonia 13 in A Minor, BWV 799 0:49:05 Sinfonia 14 in B-Flat Major, BWV 800 0:50:57 Sinfonia 15 in B Minor, BWV 801 0:52:47 Invention 1 in C Major, BWV 772a 0:54:22 Sinfonia 3 in D Major, BWV 789, Embellished Version 0:55:50 Sinfonia 4 in D Minor, BWV 790, Embellished Version 0:58:07 Sinfonia 7 in E Minor, BWV 793, Embellished Version 1:00:41 Sinfonia 9 in F Minor, BWV 795, Embellished Version 1:04:00 Sinfonia 11 in G Minor, BWV 797, Embellished Version 1:06:26 Sinfonia 13 in A Minor, BWV 799, Embellished Version 📲 Follow us on Social media: @BrilliantClassics & @PianoClassics #Bach #Baroque #Inventions #Sinfonias #YuanSheng #BachPiano #BaroqueMusic #ClassicalPiano #ClassicalPiano #PianoClassics #BrilliantClassics