Bach minimaliste La Tempête & Simon-Pierre Bestion

• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750): Harpsichord Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, BWV 1052:
• 1 Bach: Harpsichord Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, BWV 1052: I. Allegro 06:57
• Henryk Mikołaj Górecki (1933 - 2010): Harpsichord Concerto, Op. 40:
• 2 Górecki: Harpsichord Concerto, Op. 40: I. Allegro molto 05:03
• Knut Nystedt (1915 - 2014): Immortal Bach, Op. 153 (Arr. for String Ensemble by Simon-Pierre Bestion):
• 3 Nystedt: Immortal Bach, Op. 153 (Arr. for String Ensemble by Simon-Pierre Bestion) 03:32
• John Adams (1735 - 1826): Shaker Loops:
• 4 Adams: Shaker Loops: I. Shaking and Trembling 08:46
• Jehan Alain (1911 - 1940): Litanies, JA 119 (Arr. for Harpsichord and String Ensemble by Simon-Pierre Bestion):
• 5 Alain: Litanies, JA 119 (Arr. for Harpsichord and String Ensemble by Simon-Pierre Bestion) 05:21
• John Adams: Shaker Loops:
• 6 Adams: Shaker Loops: II. Hymning Slews 06:50
• Johann Sebastian Bach: Passacaglia in C Minor, BWV 582 (Arr. for Harpsichord and String Ensemble by Simon-Pierre Bestion):
• 7 Bach: Passacaglia in C Minor, BWV 582 (Arr. for Harpsichord and String Ensemble by Simon-Pierre Bestion) 07:19
• Knut Nystedt: Immortal Bach, Op. 153:
• 8 Nystedt: Immortal Bach, Op. 153 04:25
• Johann Sebastian Bach: Harpsichord Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, BWV 1052:
• 9 Bach: Harpsichord Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, BWV 1052: III. Allegro 08:28
• Henryk Mikołaj Górecki: Harpsichord Concerto, Op. 40:
• 10 Górecki: Harpsichord Concerto, Op. 40: II. Vivace marcatissimo 03:56
• John Adams: Shaker Loops:
• 11 Adams: Shaker Loops: III. Loops and Verses 07:16
• 12 Adams: Shaker Loops: IV. A Final Shaking 04:07
• Johann Sebastian Bach: Vor deinen Thron tret' ich, BWV 668:
• 13 Bach: Vor deinen Thron tret' ich, BWV 668 03:52
• Total Runtime 01:15:52

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J. S. Bach’s Harpsichord Concerto in D minor is the centrepiece of this programme: ‘This music seems absolutely modern to me: a continuous, endlessly developing thread, giving it an almost hypnotic aspect... These adjectives also belong to the vocabulary of today’s music, whether it is “popular”, as in techno, or “art music”, as in the so-called repetitive or minimalist movement’, says Simon-Pierre Bestion. Two hundred and thirty years after Bach, Górecki wrote a harpsichord concerto in the same key, using it ‘as a very rhythmic and extremely stealthy instrument’. John Adams, a leading figure of the American minimalist movement, composed Shaker Loops in 1978: ‘This masterpiece takes on a special interest because we play on instruments with gut strings. That gives the music a very special texture.’ Bach’s Passacaglia (‘a single musical theme heard forty-one times’) and Jehan Alain’s Litanies complete this programme, which brings together the Bestion brothers, with Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas as soloist in the concertos.

Louis-Noel Bestion de Camboulas, harpsichord
La Tempete
Simon-Pierre Bestion, direction

Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas
studied the organ, the harpsichord, chamber music and conducting at the Paris and Lyon Conservatoires (CNSMD). Among his teachers were Louis Robilliard, Jan Willem Jansen, Michel Bourcier, Nicolas Brochot, François Espinasse, Yves Rechsteiner, Olivier Baumont and Blandine Rannou. He has won prizes at several international organ competitions: the Grand Prix d’Orgue Jean-Louis Florentz of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, First Prize by unanimous decision of the judges at the Gottfried Silbermann Organ Competition in Freiberg (Germany), Second Prize at the Saint-Maurice Competition (Switzerland) and First Prize at the prestigious Xavier Darasse Competition in Toulouse. In 2013 he received the title of Young Echo Organist of the Year.

Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas has given organ recitals in France – Paris (church of La Madeleine, Auditorium de Radio France), Toulouse (Festival Toulouse les Orgues) – and elsewhere in Europe, including Germany (Berlin Cathedral), the Netherlands (Alkmaar), Switzerland, Italy and Monaco (International Organ Festival). He has also worked with such conductors as Hervé Niquet, Arie Van Beek and Roberto Forés Veses. His research on the composers François Rebel and François Francœur was recognised by the award of the Déclics Jeunes scholarship of the Fondation de France.

Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas is also director of Les Surprises, an ensemble specialising in the vocal and instrumental repertory of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with which he has already appeared in several European countries, Canada and Palestine.

He is currently completing his residency at the Fondation Royaumont as organist of the Abbey’s Cavaillé-Coll instrument.

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