Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
"Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme", BWV 140/645
Choral n° 42 "O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort", BWV 513
Choral "Gid dich zufrieden und sei stille", BWV 510
Aria "Gid dich zufrieden und sei stille", BWV 512
Prélude n° 29, BWV 846
"Wie wohl mir, O Freund der Seelen", BWV 517
Aria n° 33 "Warum betrübst du dich", BWV 516
Choral n° 39 "Dir, dir, Jehova, will ich singen", BWV 299
Récitatif "Ich habe genug!", BWV 82/2
Aria n° 34/38 "Schlummert ein, ihr matten Aigen", BWV 82/3
Choral n° 11 "Wer nun den lieben Gott lässt wallen", BWV 691
Choral n° 35 "Schlaff's mit mir, Gott", BWV 514
Aria di Giovanni n° 37 "Willst du dein Herz mir schenken"
Aria n° 26 "Goldberg", BWV 988/1

Anonyme/Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Aria n° 41 "Gedenke doch, dein Geist zurücke", BWV 509
Menuet, BWV Anh. 113
Marche , BWV Anh. 127
Polonaise, BWV Anh. 128
Musette n° 22, BWV Anh. 126
Menuet n° 14, BWV Anh. 120
Menuet n° 7, BWV Anh. 116
Menuets n° 36-15, BWV Anh. 132-121

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Marche n° 16, BWV Anh. 122
Polonaise n° 17, BWV Anh. 123
Marche n° 18, BWV Anh. 124
Polonaise n° 19, BWV Anh. 125

Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782)
Rondeau n° 32, BWV 131

Georg Böhm (1661-1733)
Menuet

Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel (1690-1749)
"Bist du bei mir", BWV 508

Johann Adolf Hasse (1699-1783)
Polonaise, BWV Anh. 130

François Couperin (1668-1733)
Rondeau n° 6 "Les Bergeries", BWV Anh. 183

Christian Petzold (1677-1733)
Menuets n° 4-5, BWV Anh. 114-115

Gottfried Heinrich Bach (1724-1763)
Aria n° 20 "So oft ich meine Tobackspeife", BWV 515a

Jan Depreter, guitare

Le guitariste belge Jan Depreter a eu une excellente idée : enregistrer une sélection d'extraits du Klavierbüchlein für Anna Magdalena sur une guitare. Ces petites pièces créées et compilées par Bach ont été conçues pour le clavecin et destinées au débutant mais pouvaient être jouées au clavier au luth ou au lautenwerk (instruments que Bach possédait). Le guitariste a intelligemment glissé parmi les pages de Jean Sébastien, quelques Marches et Polonaises de Carl Philipp Emannuel et de Johann Adolph Hasse, un Rondeau de François Couperin (Les Bergeries) un menuet de Georg Böhm, et deux airs de Stölzel et de de Gottfried Heinrich Bach, premier fils de Bach, handicapé mental. De quoi ravir et enthousiasmer les aficionados du Cantor et l'amateur de guitare qui pourtant en a vu d'autres. Depreter qui joue sur trois guitares de luthiers contemporains (à l'auditeur de les distinguer) nous donne un concert privé de Hausmusik baroque au minutage généreux. (Jérôme Angouillant)

Some of Bach’s most charming music in a winning and idiomatic new arrangement for guitar. While this selection of little musical gemstones is probably best known for its educational purposes in the keyboard world, this music can take on much more depth and poetry in the hands of a sympathetic interpreter such as the Belgian guitarist Jan Depreter. Compiled in 1725, the notebook is an intensely personal and charming compendium of favourite pieces played on a daily basis in the Bach household, from early-morning practice sessions to night-time lullabies and consolations. For generations of music enthusiasts, Anna-Magdalena’s Notebook has provided an introduction to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and offered a unique insight into the musical life and character of the Bach family, as well as a rare glimpse of 18th-century domestic music making. The manuscript is arranged not in graded levels of technical difficulty but according to an artistic plan, beginning with the prelude from Johann Sebastian’s A minor Partita and ending with the chorale O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, taking in along the way the Aria from the Goldberg Variations as well as short pieces by his sons and ancestors. The aria from the cantate Ich habe genug!, shows how even highly organised compositions were freely adapted to fit a more intimate performance. The German gitarre-und-laute.de site praised Depreter’s previous Brilliant Classics album for its ‘flawless and beautiful’ playing of the complete guitar music by Joaquín Turina (94973). He is an experienced professor of guitar based in his home city of Antwerp, and this album is the result of 20 years’ study and performance, being the combination of sessions that took place in 1999 and 2019. In whichever guise, the Klavierbüchlein ‘brings back some tranquillity and serenity to counterbalance the hectic struggle that is often modern day life,’ says Depreter. ‘It is the kind of music I would like to hear myself when coming home.’