Marie Kuijken in Concert

Classical music from my home

Marie Kuijken in Concert

Classical music from my home

“Bach Blossoms“

2021-03-25 21:52:10

A Garland of Preludes and Fugues from Johann Sebastian Bach's “Well Tempered Clavier“ -- Concert in live streaming from my home, hosted on SparrowLive


Is that what happens to you too: have a thousand things to do, and feel a thousand thoughts swirling that jostle each other all day long?
Maybe it's time to give yourself a moment of rest and focus at the same time!
Music - and in particular quality music, in Bach's words "mindful music", can fulfill this apparent contradiction.
Treat yourself to an hour of musical mindfulness! Listen to these gems of baroque harpsichord music.
Bach created two books of short pieces through all tonalities, to be performed mostly on the harpsichord which was the leading keyboard instrument of his times.
Directly from her home in Italy, Marie Kuijken brings you a selected series of these marvelous pieces played on her beautiful two-manual harpsichord, while introducing you with a few words into this finest musical universe.
Musica medicina dolorum: quite like those other "Bach Blossom" remedies, you can use these musical flowers to move yourself into a state of major inner harmony. Each Prelude or Fugue has its particular atmosphere, where you can dwell in and come back to, over again. By listening several times, you will savour this music evermore, and feel its harmony come over you, like the beauty of spring flowers.

Fortepianist, soprano, opera coach, and stage director Marie Kuijken was born into the Belgian musical family Kuijken, pioneers in the field of historically informed performance practice. She studied piano at the Brussels Royal Conservatory in the nineties and has been living in Italy since 2002. After her diploma, she autonomously specialized in the Mozartian fortepiano. Over the years she’s regularly performed the fortepiano in Belgium, Italy, throughout Europe and in Turkey – including solo recitals, in duo with her father Sigiswald Kuijken, with her sister Veronica Kuijken, and more. In more recent years, she has also developed as harpsichordist.
https://it.sparrowlive.com/event-details/bach-blossoms-a-garland-of-preludes-and-fugues-from-johann-sebastian-bachs-well-tempered-clavier

by Marie Kuijken