J.S. Bach: Keyboard Works

Featuring

Jill Crossland
Johann Sebastian Bach

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Compositional Technique

Bach's toccatas, like the D major Toccata, BWV912, are "manualiter," meaning they are written for keyboard without a pedal part.

Composer's Artistic Vision

The four works on this album exemplify Bach's compositional journey, which involved continuous experimentation, aggregation, and integration of different European styles, leading to a personal synthesis.

Critical Reception

The Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue, BWV903, appealed to the Sturm und Drang Romantic generations after Bach's death and remained popular despite never being published.

Performer Biography

Jill Crossland, the performer on this album, has an active concert and recording career, having played at venues like the Wigmore Hall, Leipzig Gewandhaus, and Vienna Musikverein.

Recording & Production

This album was recorded at The Old Granary Studio, Beccles, Suffolk on March 2, 2003, using a Steinway piano prepared by Andrew Giller.

Composition History

Bach's first Partita, BWV825, was his official Opus 1 and the first work he deemed worthy of publication, offered in 1726 to initiate a subscription series.