Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, Prelude & Fugue in C Minor, BWV 847
Italian Concerto in F Major, BWV 971
French Suite No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 813
French Suite No. 5 in G Major, BWV 816
Partita No. 1 in B-Flat Major, BWV 825

The music of Johann Sebastian Bach has brought accordionist Viviane Chassot out of a serious personal crisis. Since she discovered how well the music of the Thomaskantor can be reproduced on the accordion, she has now created a Bach album - after Haydn and Mozart. With works from the Woltemperierte Clavier, the well-known ''Italian Concerto'' as well as other suites and partitas.

Bach and accordion - this combination is not exactly obvious. But Viviane Chassot says: ''What is very much in favour of the accordion as a possible instrument for Bach's music for keyboard instruments are the wind-like shaping possibilities that I have thanks to the bellows. With it and with differentiated articulation, I can make the music breathe and speak; I achieve dynamics and a variety of colours through diverse registration possibilities. And the virtuoso dance movements are given a musical - even archaic - touch on the accordion''.

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Recording: Kirche, Marthalen, Switzerland, 2020.