Bach: Sonates en trio, BWV 525-530

Benjamin Alard conjures up Bach's famous trio sonatas from this first-class instrument in a remarkably skillful manner: of course he masters the technically difficult pieces with sovereign abilityProduct info : Originating in Italy at the end of the 17th century, the trio sonata established itself throughout Europe at the beginning of the 18th century as one of the most important musical genres. It was Corelli who elevated the contrasting sequence of several movements and the instrumentation with two violins and basso continuo to the standard and whose trio sonatas had model character for all following generations. Bach's best-known trio sonatas deviate from this pattern in that they are conceived for one player. The difficulty here is to make the whole seem as if it were played by three musicians, which has quickly made the pieces the touchstone of any organist. born in 1985, just on the 300th anniversary of Johann Sebastian Bach's birth, the young French organist Benjamin Alard displays not only a commanding technique but also an ideally suited instrument in the Aubertin organ of St. Louis en l'Île. built in 2005 according to German models, it is, by the way, the youngest organ built in Paris.