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Inside Bach

Christian Spering

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“Swedish bass master Christian Spering offers a different insight into the composer’s timeless music” – Eyal Hareuveni -AAJ

Niklas Rådström on Inside Bach

“In “Inside Bach” Christian Spering, one of Sweden’s foremost instrumentalists all categories, recaptures the Bach that was not only a master of counterpoint and the polyphonic musical form, but also an outstanding improviser. In a gentle motion between inquiring improvisation and a strong fidelity to the composer’s notation Spering opens the music to an intimate presence beyond genres and traditions and also provides a couple of longer pieces with echoes and loops which gives the polyphonic expression a new form. “Inside Bach” shows the old organist in Leipzig as at one and the same time our obvious contemporary and completely timeless.”

This album was recorded in Christian’s house in january 2012.
Here is the album booklet

This album was released together with Elisabeth Engdahl & Thomas Gustafssons album “Piece in Peace” in two concerts in in Tyska S:ta Gertruds kyrka and Fässbergs kyrka in October 2012 in Stockholm and Gothenburg

Tracks

1. Adagio from violin Sonata No 1 in G minor, BWV 1001 (5:27)

2. Corrente from violin Partita no 2 in D minor BWV 1004 (1:35)

3. Sarabande from Partita no 2 in D minor BWV 1004 (4:20)

4. Elegia (9:21)

5. Double from violin Partita No 1 in B minor, BWV 1002 (4:03)

6. Sarabande from Cello Suite No4 in E-flat major, BWV 1010 (3:41)

7. Menuette / Gigue from Cello Suite No 1 in G major, BWV 1007 (6:22)

8. Allemande from violin Partita No 1 in B minor, BWV 1002 (4:57)

9. Zona di passagio (11:07)

10. Sarabande from violin Partita No 1 in B minor, BWV 1002 (2:34)

More Info

Produced by Bengt Berger & Christian Spering.
Mastered by Claes Persson, CRP.
Recorded 2012 at Garaget, Vallentuna, Sweden.
Photos by Viktor Gårdsäter.
Cover by Lina Åberg & Jon Edergren, EBDC.
Liner notes by Niklas Rådström.
English translation by Fred Lane.
Special thanks to Niklas Rådström, Peter Danemo, Orionteatern & Bert Levins stiftelse för jazzmusik.