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•• ‘PRELUDES, INVENTIONS & SINFONIAS’ WAS OUR FEATURED ALBUM FOR SEPTEMBER 2024 ••

A collection of miniatures centred around the sets of Inventions and Sinfonias which Bach wrote principally as teaching aids—of an extremely superior kind, it should be noted—to encourage any young keyboard player ‘keen to learn’. These joyous, enthralling accounts from Mahan Esfahani prove that there is a great deal more to them than that.

“Every student and performer who has spent a lifetime with the inventions and sinfonias owes every iota of their critical engagement with this music to the British scholar Richard Jones, whose exemplary edition for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music is the benchmark for any true understanding of Bach’s works as living texts. I dedicate this recording to him and to the significant impact his work has had on me since my first contact with Bach’s music.” – Mahan Esfahani, 2024

MAHAN ESFAHANI harpsichord, clavichord

CDA68448 • Released 2024