“…Rondeau is one of the most natural performers one is likely to hear on a classical music stage these days. Affectation and ostentation are not part of his makeup and, once seated at the instrument, he and the harpsichord become one.” – The Washington Post Jean Rondeau, the imaginative young French harpsichordist, describes the Bach family as “one of the great dynasties of western music”. Having devoted his first Erato disc, Imagine, to works by the towering Johann Sebastian, he now returns to Bach’s world for his third release, Dynastie, which complements concertos by Johann Sebastian with concertos by his three most famous sons, Wilhelm Friedemann, Carl Philipp Emmanuel and Johann Christian. Rondeau has described JS Bach, who has been part of his life since his childhood, as “daunting like a mighty mountain”, but at the same time feels that “his music is so full of humility, so generous, that we have the right and the duty to play it, to share it, and to take the hand that he extends to us.” Other participants: Sophie Gent · Louis Creac'h · Fanny Paccoud · Antoine Touche · Thomas de Pierrefeu · Evolène Kiener 1 Bach, JS: Harpsichord Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, BWV 1052: I. Allegro 2 Bach, JS: Harpsichord Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, BWV 1052: II. Adagio 3 Bach, JS: Harpsichord Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, BWV 1052: III. Allegro 4 Bach, JC: Harpsichord Concerto No. 6 in F Minor, W. C73 (formerly attrib. W. F. Bach): I. Allegro di molto 5 Bach, JC: Harpsichord Concerto No. 6 in F Minor, W. C73 (formerly attrib. W. F. Bach): II. Andante 6 Bach, JC: Harpsichord Concerto No. 6 in F Minor, W. C73 (formerly attrib. W. F. Bach): III. Prestissimo 7 Bach, WF / Orch Rondeau: Keyboard Sonata in G Major, F. 7: II. Lamento 8 Bach, JS: Harpsichord Concerto No. 5 in F Minor, BWV 1056: I. Allegro 9 Bach, JS: Harpsichord Concerto No. 5 in F Minor, BWV 1056: II. Largo 10 Bach, JS: Harpsichord Concerto No. 5 in F Minor, BWV 1056: III. Presto 11 Bach, CPE: Harpsichord Concerto in D Minor, H. 427: I. Allegro 12 Bach, CPE: Harpsichord Concerto in D Minor, H. 427: II. Poco andante 13 Bach, CPE: Harpsichord Concerto in D Minor, H. 427: III. Allegro assai