Artist: Edouard Ferlet
Title: Think Bach
Genre: Jazz
Release Date: 2012
Label: MELISSE
Duration: 01:04:42
Quality: FLAC 88.2kHz/24bit
Source: Qobuz
How could one deconstruct Bach’s music when this opus has had such a structuring effect? How could one subvert a tribute to the organist of Leipzig and not bow before the “old wig”, as Busoni liked to call him endearingly? In short, how today variate Bach without turning the master into a kitsch cantor? In much the same way is there a significant nuance between laughing at and laughing with, Edouard Ferlet offers to play with Bach rather than merely play Bach; and because to play is to do hence we stand at the core of a poetical process. A process by which the pianist “recomposes” both substracting and enhancing: a few notes are extracted here and there from a prelude’s voices whereas elsewhere some are luckily added without ever being reduced to simple ornaments. By no doubt the German composer would have approved a piano thus enhanced with such delicate sounds — as we know he had a preference for the clavicord’s softness.
So by digging between the folds of the score — preserving its visionary archeology — the pianist deciphers the cryptic soundscapes hidden behind the sheet music much alike a Middle-Age copyist scraping off an ancient parchment with the palimpsest technique and layering fresh material over it. A lot has already been said about Bach’s art of fractal combination with its infinite serpentine structures reminding the Mbius ribons in Escher’s virtuoso paintings — but maybe Bach’s polyphonic exquisite cadaver becomes fathomable only when meeting improvisation again. Though we have variations within variations reflecting the idea of infinity — the pianist has made use of the same mirror method devised by Bach — the difference within the repetition springs out of improvised music itself hence recovering a sense of desequilibrium so specific to the Baroque period.
Edouard Ferlet’s poetic stand finds its place within the constant tension between replication and invention by which Bach’s opus would somehow be the promise as well as the trick and whereby the pianist delivers what in sleight of hand one calls the prestige.
Tracklist:
01 — Analecta (Prlude en r majeur du clavier bien tempr BWV850)
02 — Dictame (Prlude en la mineur du clavier bien tempr BWV889)
03 — A la suite de Jean (Prlude le suite pour violoncelle BWV1007)
04 — Verso (Prlude en do mineur du clavier bien tempr BWV847)
05 — Lisire (Prlude en do mineur pour luth BWV999)
06 — Souffle magntique (Suite franaise n4 en mi bmol majeur pour clavier BWV815)
07 — Que ma tristesse demeure (choral de la cantate Jsus que ma joie demeure BWV147)
08 — Lapsus (Prlude en r mineur du clavier bien tempr BWV851)
09 — Diagonale (Variation de Goldberg n25 BWV988)
10 — Rplique (Prlude en r bmol majeur du clavier bien tempr BWV848)
11 — Agnus Dei (Bonus)
12 — Air on the G String (Bonus)
13 — Erbarme dich, mein Gott (Bonus)
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