While pursuing a brilliant career as a harpsichordist and an organist, Benjamin Alard has taken on a highly ambitious project: the recording for Harmonia Mundi of the first complete keyboard compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach. The first volume, released in 2018, was awarded a Classica Choc. So don’t miss listening to this peerless musician—a regular guest at the Théâtre de la Ville—who will be devoting this recital to a selection of works under French influence, probably composed between 1708 and 1723, when Bach was in Weimar, then in Köthen, where he dedicated himself to composing secular instrumental music for the court.

Anne de Fornel