During his own lifetime, Niels Viggo Bentzon (1919-2000) became the very symbol of modern music in Denmark. An unstoppable creative force which, right from his breakthrough in the early 1940s, was in a category of his own, Per Salo, the pre-eminent Danish interpreter of Bentzon, here turns to Bentzon's huge-scale piano cycle The Tempered Piano, with a personal compilation of preludes and fugues from the many volumes that Bentzon wrote with direct inspiration from Bach. Riotous digressions, musical worlds of unbridled fantasy, loosely constructed blowholes - everywhere Bentzon broke new ground - ground far from the golden mean.

Tracklist:

The Tempered Piano, Book 7, Op. 530: Prelude & Fugue In C Major
The Tempered Piano, Book 1, Op. 157: Prelude & Fugue In C Minor
The Tempered Piano, Book 8, Op. 532: Prelude & Fugue In C-Sharp Major
The Tempered Piano, Book 2, Op. 379: Prelude & Fugue In C-Sharp Minor
The Tempered Piano, Book 8, Op. 532: Prelude & Fugue In D Major
The Tempered Piano, Book 8, Op. 532: Prelude & Fugue In D Minor
The Tempered Piano, Book 2, Op. 379: Prelude & Fugue In E-Flat Major
The Tempered Piano, Book 4, Op. 409: Prelude & Fugue In E-Flat Minor
The Tempered Piano, Book 8, Op. 532: Prelude & Fugue In E Major
The Tempered Piano, Book 5, Op. 428: Prelude & Fugue In E Minor
The Tempered Piano, Book 4, Op. 409: Prelude & Fugue In F Major
The Tempered Piano, Book 8, Op. 532: Prelude & Fugue In F Minor
The Tempered Piano, Book 8, Op. 532: Prelude & Fugue In F-Sharp Major
The Tempered Piano, Book 7, Op. 530: Prelude & Fugue In F-Sharp Minor
The Tempered Piano, Book 5, Op. 428: Prelude & Fugue In G Major
The Tempered Piano, Book 4, Op. 409: Prelude & Fugue In G Minor
The Tempered Piano, Book 4, Op. 409: Prelude & Fugue In G-Sharp Major
The Tempered Piano, Book 4, Op. 409: Prelude & Fugue In G-Sharp Minor
The Tempered Piano, Book 7, Op. 530: Prelude & Fugue In A Major
The Tempered Piano, Book 8, Op. 532: Prelude & Fugue In A Minor
The Tempered Piano, Book 5, Op. 428: Prelude & Fugue In B-Flat Major
The Tempered Piano, Book 4, Op. 409: Prelude & Fugue In B-Flat Minor
The Tempered Piano, Book 5, Op. 428: Prelude & Fugue In B Major
The Tempered Piano, Book 2, Op. 379: Prelude & Fugue In B Minor

UPC: 636943607725
Label: Dacapo
Release Date: 9.6.19
Format: CD

Bentzon - Tempered Piano (CD)